Marratxí will grant the title of Illustrious Daughter to the soccer player Cata Coll
It will be in the plenary session tomorrow Tuesday when the City Council will make official the appointment of the soccer player from Pòrtol, Cata Coll, world champion in Australia, as Illustrious Daughter of the municipality. The title will be for her sporting merits In the plenary session to be [...]
Visits to the Misericòrdia cistern continue until 28 October
Visits to the Misericòrdia cistern will continue until 28th October. After years of restoration work, the Consell de Mallorca has opened this space to the public for the first time on the occasion of the Nit de l'Art de Palma (Night of Art in Palma). [...]
Busy week ahead of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s imminent investiture debate
The candidate to the presidency will expose his government program tomorrow, Tuesday, in the first session of the investiture debate and on Wednesday he will be submitted to a vote in which he will need at least 176 votes to [...]
MajorDocs 2023: Filmmaker Avi Mograbi, guest of honor at the festival
The event revolves around documentary and home cinema and will be held from October 3 to 7. The fifth edition of MajorDocs 2023 has as its guest of honor filmmaker Avi Mograbi, considered one of the great political filmmakers of [...]
Rata Market Marratxí 2023, craftsmanship and music at the Museu del Fang
A varied range of crafts, food and music seasoned with activities for the whole family are the ingredients of a new edition of Rata Market Marratxí 2023. On this occasion the meeting is at the Museu del Fang from 11 [...]
Festival de cine de San Sebastián 2023: 21 películas a competición
La ciudad de La Concha despliega su alfombra roja para celebrar la 71 edición del Festival de San Sebastián 'Zinemaldia', una cita con el cine que tendrá lugar del 22 al 30 de septiembre y que proyectará 21 películas en [...]
Balearic Islands, leader in Spain in August in hotel overnight stays and occupancy of foreign tourists
The Balearic Islands leads in August the number of hotel overnight stays of non-resident tourists and occupancy per square of all Spain, ahead of Catalonia and the Canary Islands. This is according to the survey of hotel tourism published this [...]
Nit de l’Art 2023: fourteen galleries open the doors of their collections in Palma and the Part Forana
The popular event that marks the start of the Balearic art season, the Nit de l'Art 2023 will be held on Saturday 23rd September from 6 pm to 11 pm. A programme of activities organised by Art Palma Contemporani will [...]
Three of Agama’s six cowsheds could close after Damm announces losses
According to the Catalan group, most of Mallorca's production has no outlet and it will have to reduce prices to farmers as well as cut milk purchases from producers. Damm has announced that Agama is making losses The viability of [...]
The Balearic Islands enter a slowdown phase after a good season, warns CAEB
The Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB) has today published the Economic Evolution report for the second quarter of 2023. It states that the Balearic Islands economy grew by 3.9% from April to June. This rate, although [...]
Andreu Manresa resigns as director of IB3
The general director of IB3, Andreu Manresa, has presented this Thursday his resignation to the Parliament as he considers that his "independence and dignity" is currently being questioned. Manresa has been at the head of the public broadcaster for the [...]
Enderrock 2023 Awards: ‘Els Valldemossa’ receive the Honorary Award
In the sixth edition of the Enderrock 2023 Awards 'Els Valldemossa' will receive the Honorary Award; Joan Company, the Lifetime Achievement Award and Miquel Jaume the Personality Award. They will be held on October 20th at Palma's Teatre Principal The [...]
ITV in Mallorca will be open on Saturdays in September and October
NThe president of the Consell de Mallorca announces the opening of all the stations of the Technical Inspection of Vehicles (ITV) on Saturdays in September and October and 2,400 more appointments will be available. Waiting lists reach 35 days Consell [...]
Evolution Mallorca 2023 Festival to award filmmaker Isabel Coixet
The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival has announced this Thursday that it will open its twelfth edition on October 18 with the film "Un amor", by Isabel Coixet. The filmmaker will receive the Evolution Vision 2023 award at the opening [...]
Aena tenders 6 premises in Module A of Palma airport
Aena has put out to tender the commercial offer for Module A of Palma's Son Sant Joan airport. In total, there are 6 premises that will be distributed over a surface area of more than 500 square metres. This new [...]
Lack of affordable housing in Mallorca continues as construction of luxury villas increases
The construction of multi-family houses has dropped by 22% in Mallorca in the last year, while the construction of single-family houses with a high budget has increased by 7.5%, according to the latest data presented by the Official Association of [...]
Palma celebrates the European Mobility Week until September 23rd
This Friday, September 22 is the European Car Free Day, which aims to promote environmental awareness in citizens around the world. The City Council of Palma has scheduled a series of activities as part of the European Mobility Week. On [...]
Oil prices to remain high according to Majorcan producers
The Associació de Producció Agrària de Mallorca (APAEMA) predicts a second year of low oil production at state level, although this will not be the case in Mallorca where it is expected to be abundant and of high quality. This [...]
The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival 2023 will bring together more than 30 writers
The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival reaches its third edition in 2023, consolidating itself as one of the star cultural events in the area. It is an initiative backed by Rata Corner and Innside by Meliá that seeks to bring culture [...]
10 bookstores in Palma will participate in the Setmana del llibre en català
Readers, writers and lovers of literature can gather in the courtyard of the Centre Cultural la Misericòrdia from September 20 to 24 to celebrate the Setmana del llibre en català 2023. This 34th edition will have the participation of 10 [...]
Fira Dolça 2023 in Esporles: the classics of Mallorcan confectionery are back
Esporles celebrates next Sunday October 1 the seventeenth edition of the Fira Dolça 2023. One more year hundreds of bakeries, stores and local businesses will present their sweets and handmade products. Among these you can taste the traditional 'ensaïmades', 'crespells', [...]
Imserso trips will begin in October after dismissal of the appeals against Ávoris
The Imserso travel program for the 2023-2024 season will start in the second half of October. Finally the Central Administrative Court of Contractual Resources (TACRC) has rejected the appeals against the award of all the lots of these to Ávoris. [...]
Three hospitalized for smoke inhalation and 150 evacuated in a fire at Fontsana nursing home
A fire at the Fontsana residence in Palma forced last Tuesday night to evacuate more than 150 people, including professionals and residents. This has been reported by the Emergency Service 112 in the Balearic Islands. The fire originated in one [...]
The future of the tourism sector to be debated at the XIX Congress of Spanish Hoteliers in Palma
The main representatives of the Spanish tourism sector will design strategies and address the challenges of the present and future of tourism at the XIX Congress of Spanish Hoteliers to be held between November 22 and 24 at the Palau [...]
Crash of two planes at Palma airport
An Air Europa and a Condor aircraft collided this Tuesday on the runway of Palma airport. Although there have been no injuries, both aircraft have been affected in the incident that occurred at 09.30 am and flights have been canceled [...]
Municipal parking fees at Manacor, Santa Pagesa and Sa Riera streets are reduced to five euros
This measure allows the daily fees in these three municipal parking lots to reduce their price from fifteen to five euros and means a saving of up to 10 euros per day for users of Palma. From four hours of [...]
New DANA in Balearic Islands: Yellow alert for heavy rains and storms
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) warns of a delicate situation with a lot of uncertainty in the Balearic Islands that at the moment activates the yellow alert especially in Mallorca, Eivissa and Formentera for today and tomorrow. This new DANA [...]
The co-official languages are spoken today in Congress for the first time in the history of democracy
The Congress of Deputies opens this Tuesday its first plenary session of the XV Legislature with the prominence of Catalan, Basque and Galician. The use of the co-official languages is a proposed reform of the Rules of Procedure of the [...]
The Tax Agency will fight against illegal tourist rentals and will share its data with the councils
It will do so through the information on the payment of the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) or mandatory eco-tax for tourist rentals. The goal: to put an end to fraud and illegal supply. This was announced by the Government this [...]
The cleaning plan ‘Palma a Punt’ will start in Pere Garau and will be extended to nine sectors of the city
The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has presented the first action of the shock plan of cleaning and comprehensive improvement of the city that will be repeated in each neighborhood at least twice a year 'Palma a Punt' is the [...]
Out! 2023, the LGTBIQ+ Film Festival, returns in September
The LGTBIQ+ Film Festival of the Balearic Islands Out! 2023 will be held from September 20th to 28th in Palma with the screening of 19 feature films, documentaries and short films as well as activities dedicated to educational centers and [...]
Bodies of father and son crew members of the sailboat missing in the Menorca channel identified
The Guardia Civil has confirmed that the bodies found on the coast of Mallorca on September 4th and 5th were those of the two crew members of the sailboat 'Makan Angin' that disappeared in the Menorca channel during the storm [...]
Menorca Talayotic, declared a World Heritage Site
The president of the Government, Margalida Prohens, is today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she has defended the candidacy of Menorca Talayotic as World Heritage. It has been in the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO Menorca [...]
Palma chosen to host the European Union tourism summit
The Government of Pedro Sánchez has decided that Palma will be the European capital of tourism on October 30 and 31 on the occasion of one of the 23 informal meetings organized by the Council of the European Union under [...]
Fiction Mallorca Pitch 2023: a meeting with cinema in Calvià
The third edition of the audiovisual industry meeting, Fiction Mallorca Pitch 2023, will be held between the 16th and 18th of October in Calvià. This event begins its activities a month before with a day of screenings of five short [...]
Wipe Out Festival 2023: surfing and sustainability in Palma
After the success of the first edition of the festival, which combines a passion for surfing with environmental protection, the second Wipe Out Festival 2023 is coming to Palma between the 24th and 30th of September with a programme of [...]
Pedro Cabrita Reis lights up the Lonja with “Mar interior”
The Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis is exhibiting "Inland Sea" in the Lonja, a work featuring 700 LED lamps "that make up this sea, which is more than water, which is more than borders: it is a part of everyone [...]
This is the wealth of the Balearic deputies in Congress
As required by parliamentary regulations, the Congress of Deputies has made public the assets and income of the deputies of the legislature that starts in 2023, including eight representatives of the Balearic Islands. The socialist and president of the Congress, [...]
The bakers and confectioners of the Balearic Islands are asking for help to guarantee the generational changeover
The Associació de Foners i Pastissers de Baleares (Association of Foners and Pastissers of the Balearic Islands) claims their products as part of their cultural identity and calls for the recruitment of new workers The new board of the Associació [...]
The Local Police of Llucmajor destroys 7,000 objects confiscated in summer
In the summer campaign they have also seized 600 bottles of alcohol and soft drinks and 200 kg of fruit The Local Police of Llucmajor have disposed of more than 7,000 objects that were confiscated during the months of July [...]
The Govern considers the decree of tourism of excesses “a failure”
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports, Jaume Bauzà, has unraveled the future Tourism Law that the Govern will approve before the summer of 2024 and has announced a change of name of the decree of Tourism of Excesses that [...]
LVII Festa des Vermar 2023: celebration program
From Wednesday, September 6 to October 21, exhibitions, sporting events, competitions and parades of floats make up the program of events of the LVII Festa des Vermar 2023 which is held once again in the wine-growing municipality of Binissalem around [...]
The first electrified line of EMT Palma runs from Sindicat to Son Castelló
The EMT Palma service that runs between Sindicat and Son Castelló consists of 12 zero-emission vehicles. Line 10 is the first electrified line in Palma. In addition, since September 11, these buses can be boarded through the second front door [...]
ECB raises interest rates for the tenth consecutive time
The European Central Bank on Thursday raised interest rates by 0.25 points in a context of inflation, to 4.5%, thus reaching its highest level in twenty years, since 2001 The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday raised interest rates by [...]
