Binissalem’s Grape Harvest Festival 2024 celebrates culture and wine making
The Binissalem's Grape Harvest Festival 2024 promise a week full of exciting events and activities for everyone. A complete program organized by days and times can be found below. This year’s motto, "Open to culture, heritage, [...]
The Bunyola Underwear Run 2024 will animate the town on September 14th
Next Saturday, September 14, 2024, Bunyola is gearing up to experience one of the most original and eagerly anticipated celebrations of its patronal festivities: the 20th edition of the Underwear Run 2024. This event, which [...]
The Bunyola Festivities 2024 honour Sant Mateu from 6 to 29 September
The Bunyola 2024 festivities, in honor of Sant Mateu, promise to be a celebration full of joy, tradition, and activities for all tastes and ages. This annual event, which unites the community in honor of [...]
The Diada de Mallorca 2024 will fill the island with cultural and festive activities from 7 to 26 September
The Diada de Mallorca 2024, one of the island's most important celebrations, this year coincides with the 40th anniversary of the island's flag. This year's edition features an extensive programme running from Saturday 7th September [...]
The XLIII Festa des Sequer arrives in Lloret de Vistalegre
The XLIII Festa des Sequer in Lloret de Vistalegre has firmly established itself as one of the most important events in the region. In this celebration, the fig takes centre stage, highlighting it as one [...]
Record employment in the Balearic Islands and leadership in permanent contracts
The Balearic Islands have reached a new record for Social Security enrolment in August 2024, with a total of 652,289 people registered, representing an increase of 19,055 people (3%) compared to the same month last [...]
Cançons de la Mediterrània 2024 celebrates its 40th anniversary with five concerts
The new edition of the Cançons de la Mediterrània 2024 festival will begin on Wednesday 17th July in Ses Voltes with the show 'Mediterranean Voices' and will conclude on Sunday 21st July with the performance [...]
More than 9 tonnes of waste removed from the Balearic coastline between May and June
Coastal Cleaning Boats managed by the Ministry of the Sea and Water Cycle collected a total of 9,005.75 kilograms of waste in the Balearic Islands during May and June. This year, the campaign started in [...]
Palma’s Teatre Principal closes the 23/24 season with a slight increase in the number of spectators
The Teatre Principal de Palma concludes the 2023/2024 season, which ran from September to June, with a total of 51,576 spectators attending 112 shows across 155 performances. These figures slightly exceed those of the previous [...]
“If you don’t get out of Mallorca, you get stuck doing verbenas”
The Mallorcan singer and songwriter Maria Hein in Portocolom. Immersed in the tour of her second album while the third one is beginning to take shape, singer and songwriter Maria Hein (Felanitx, 2003) [...]
Where to watch the final of Euro 2024 in Mallorca on a giant screen
Palma City Council will install a giant screen in Plaça de la Reina on Sunday, July 14, so that citizens can watch the Euro 2024 final live between Spain and England. Plaça de la Reina [...]
Companies in the Balearic Islands recover their pre-pandemic profitability
Companies in the Balearic Islands have resumed the pace of capitalizing on their activities and have doubled their profitability within a year, reaching pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest issue of i|negocios from the Economic [...]
Cala d’Or, the essence of Eivissa in Mallorca
SPECIAL CONTENT Es Fortí de Cala d'Or. Cala d'Or is much more than a holiday destination. It is a living testimony of how a vision of the future, artistic sensitivity and love for [...]
The Mallorcan producer taking Netflix by Storm
The Mallorcan film producer Miguel Ruz Miguel Ruz has positioned Nowhere as the second most-watched Spanish-language film in the history of streaming platforms He had always wanted to work in film, and despite studying engineering [...]
Water reserves in the Balearic Islands fall to half their capacity in June
During the month of June, water reserves in the Balearic Islands have decreased significantly, reaching 50% of their capacity. This marks a 2 percentage point drop compared to the previous month and a 9 percentage [...]
When Cabrera was inhabited by “depraved and perverse” monks
Since 1999, Palma City Council - with some participation from the Ministry of Culture - has been subsidising a series of archaeological surveys. And I say Palma Town Hall because, although it may surprise some, [...]
Festes de la Mare de Déu del Carme 2024, the best opportunity to discover Port d’Andratx
The much-awaited Festes de la Mare de Déu del Carme 2024 in Port d'Andratx start today, Tuesday, July 9th, and will end next Tuesday, July 16th. This week of patronal festivities is one of the [...]
Global People: citizens of the world residing in Mallorca
Mallorca is a land of welcome for people from all over the world. Get to know their stories and the attractions of this paradise. Name: Pierce Broderick. Country of birth: Ireland. Time in Mallorca: 30 [...]
The true progressivism
This country called Spain is burdened by Manichaeism. Mine are the good guys, the others are the bad ones. What a bore and how much nonsense. Since when has it been going on? Perhaps since [...]
Creativity to build in a sustainable way
Bio-passive housing and sustainable buildings do not have to be a luxury, says architect Jaume Luis Salas, of the prestigious inquer Marés studio. "The island needs continuous and up-to-date planning, which we don't have at [...]
Mallorca, the swimwear fashion epicentre
The picture-postcard beaches and the Mediterranean essence that are so characteristic of Mallorca make the island the best setting for numerous swimwear brands to come and photograph their models wearing the swimming costumes that will [...]
Zoomers & Boomers
My daughter was born in 1998. I was born in 1956. In sociological terms, she is a "zoomer" and I am a "boomer". This vocabulary sounds like an idiotic Hollywood comedy, but it is what [...]
The greatest fortunes of the world, Spain and the Balearic Islands on the Forbes list
The prestigious magazine Forbes publishes a list of the world's greatest fortunes every year, by country and, in the case of Spain, also by Autonomous Communities. However, it is no longer necessary to wait until [...]
Healthy Travel
V.S. After COVID, trips to exotic destinations have been reactivated: "We are at a time when leisure travel is gaining momentum and coexists with travel for work and humanitarian reasons. But the main reason continues [...]
Conjugate in future
The socio-economic impact of the pandemic and the risks and opportunities emanating from megatrends such as technological disruption, climate change and sustainability, global demographic change and concerns about health and well-being, among others, are stimulating [...]
EMT Palma recovers the Plaça Espanya bus stops that were cancelled due to building work
EMT Palma will recover stops 598 and 455 at Plaça d'Espanya starting Thursday, July 4th in the afternoon, which were closed due to construction works. Therefore, from 17:00 onwards, line A1 (Airport) will stop again [...]
Catalina Forteza: “He is perhaps the person with whom I have laughed the most in my life”
The great Mallorcan master of theatre continues to unleash laughter among audiences 25 years after his death Virginia Servera. Palma He was born in Vallori Street. From there, he moved to Calle Velázquez and later [...]
The Balearic Islands led job creation in Spain in June
In June, the Illes Balears achieved historic figures in job creation, with 641,635 people registered in the Social Security system, representing an annual increase of 3.1 percent (19,190 more registrations) compared to June 2023, surpassing [...]
The Govern launches the citizen participation platform of the Pact for Sustainability in the Balearics
The Govern de les Illes Balears has launched the initiative "Les illes que t’estimes més. Tu tries!" to engage citizens and entities in the review and reorientation of the economic, social, and environmental development of [...]
European Food Strategy in the Face of Climate Change
We perceive that our civilization is in crisis in the face of anthropogenic (human-generated) climate change. In Europe, even more than in other regions of the developed world, we have realized that, for the first [...]