Three days of mourning in the Balearic Islands following the death of Pope Francis
The Government of the Balearic Islands has declared three days of official mourning in the autonomous community following the death of Pope Francis. The president of the Government, Margalida Prohens, has signed a decree establishing [...]
Palma will come alive with books and cultural events for Sant Jordi 2025 on 23 April
The city of Palma is getting ready to celebrate the traditional Sant Jordi 2025 with a wide range of activities dedicated to the promotion of reading. The event, organised by the Gremi de Llibreters de [...]
Son Sant Joan closes the first quarter with 3.5 million passengers, a 1.9% increase compared to 2024
During the first quarter of 2025, Son Sant Joan Airport reached a total of 3,518,507 passengers, representing a 1.9% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Regarding air traffic, 30,502 flight operations were recorded [...]
The new lane between So n’Oms and the airport is now open to ease congestion on the Llucmajor motorway
A new lane on the Llucmajor motorway (Ma-19), running from the So n'Oms exit to the Palma airport access, has now been opened. With a length of approximately two kilometres, this infrastructure is part of [...]
Queen Sofía presides over the 2025 Holy Week Concert in Palma in aid of Projecte Home Balears
Her Majesty Queen Sofía presided yesterday over the traditional 2025 Holy Week Concert at the Cathedral-Basilica of Santa María de Mallorca, a musical and charitable event which this year featured as its central piece the [...]
The Govern and Vox reach an agreement to unblock the creation of 10,000 affordable homes in Palma
The Govern, led by the Partido Popular, and the Vox parliamentary group have finally reached an agreement to facilitate the approval of the Decree-Law on Strategic Residential Projects (PRE), aiming to allow the creation of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Fira Internacional del Disc will be held in Palma and Inca in September and October.
The XXI Fira Internacional del Disc will be held at the Velòdrom Illes Balears on the 16th and 17th of September, and will continue in Inca on the 28th and 29th of October in the [...]
The Consell de Mallorca settles the debt of 13 million euros of the town councils
The president of the insular institution, Llorenç Galmés, has announced the payment to the town councils of the 13 million euros pending of the previous legislature, during the plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca [...]
Tourist rental associations call for the recovery of 90,000 vacancies eliminated during the last legislature
With the aim of defending their interests before the new General Tourism Law to be drafted and approved by the Government presided by Marga Prohens in 2024, all the employers of holiday rentals in the [...]
Cort construirá vivienda pública en la antigua prisión de Palma
Según el regidor de Urbanismo de Palma, Óscar Fidalgo, no existía ningún acuerdo firmado ni ningún convenio entre el Ayuntamiento y la UIB para la construcción de una residencia de estudiantes en la antigua prisión [...]
Bicipalma opens a new station at Son Pacs traffic circle
The Bicipalma network expands the station located in the industrial area of Son Rossinyol due to the great demand of users and inaugurates a new stop located at the Son Pacs traffic circle, at camí [...]
The Consell exhibits the original parchment of the kingdom of Mallorca
All the citizens will be able to visit the original parchment of September 12, 1276 that accredits the confirmation of the rights and privileges of the kingdom of Mallorca between today and tomorrow from 10:30 [...]
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