Martínez presents the ideas competition for the renovation and improvement of the Plaça Major
The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez Llabrés, this Wednesday presented the tender for the preliminary project to reform the Plaça Major and improve the accesses to Carrer Sant Miquel and Plaça Marqués de Palmer, Plaça [...]
Open day at the Sa Bassa Blanca museum for the Day of the Balearic Islands
Next Saturday 24th February, an interesting open day will be held at the Sa Bassa Blanca Museum in Alcúdia to commemorate the Day of the Balearic Islands. From 10:30 in the morning until 17:00, visitors [...]
The Mallorcan Victoria Luengo, Princess of Girona Art 2024 Laureate
Leading Mallorcan actress Victoria Luengo (cover of Mallorca Global Mag spring-summer 2022 issue) has been awarded the Princess of Girona Art 2024 Award as part of the Talent Tour being held in Salamanca until 23 [...]
The Misericordia Chapel reopens its doors with the exhibition ‘Natural Spaces’
After being closed for two years, the Consell de Mallorca reopens the doors of the Misericordia chapel with the exhibition Espacios Naturales (Natural Spaces). The exhibition offers a representation of the natural spaces belonging to [...]
Tractorade in Palma: Mallorcan farmers collapse the centre of the city in protest
Around 300 tractors and agricultural vehicles flooded the streets of central Palma on Monday. Farmers and stockbreeders in Mallorca carried out a massive tractor pull to express their concern for the future of their sector, [...]
Recovering the sky of our ancestors
La Vía Láctea en la isla de Cabrera donde se observan multitud de estrellas de diferente intensidad de brillo y tonalidades. Foto: Jaime Sánchez Millán. Antonia Gil. Palma "There is a social culture [...]
A new Roman restaurant: Giromatto, review by Salvo Solell
The first news came to me from “Kokomo”, in Cala Mayor. Half a year later Matteo Trecca and Giulia Tulli have moved to San Magín street. With barely a dozen tables, Roman recipes, love for [...]
Tourists visiting the islands spend 20% more than before the pandemic
The foreign tourist who is arriving in the Balearic Islands during 2022 spends 20% more at the destination than before the pandemic. This is shown by the Tourist Expenditure Survey (Egatur) made public by the [...]
Scientists place mussels to clean the port of Palma
In 2022, the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) has launched The mussel project as a bioremediator in the waters of the port of Palma. A study conducted by the Balearic Oceanographic Center, which has confirmed [...]
Cinema de Barri offers 12 free screenings in three spaces in Palma
Cinema de Barri 2022 arrives in Palma with the programming of twelve film screenings. The places where the cinema will arrive are Parque de la Riera, Son Gibert and Parque de la Fertilitzadora. Three scenarios [...]
Cançons de la Mediterrània 2022 programmes seven concerts in Ses Voltes
The 2022 edition of the Cançons de la Mediterrània festival programmes a total of seven concerts in July. They will take place in Ses Voltes and aim to highlight the musical, cultural and linguistic diversity [...]
Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest 2022 programmes dozens of films and free concerts
The 12th edition of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest, 2022, already has a programme. Its director, the Mallorcan Jaume Ripoll, has unveiled the programme for this new edition of one of the island's most important [...]
Plywood House: the remodelling of a traditional house with the latest wood technologies
In the heart of Palma, in the residential neighborhood of Son Espanyolet, where the traditional houses of the area have a ground floor and a patio, the Plywood house is located, renovated by local architects [...]
Cycle tourism in Andratx: on the road 365 days a year
Stable climate, varied orography and numerous routes with different difficulty levels make Andratx an attractive place not only for hikers but also for cycling lovers. Located in the southwestern part of the island and nestled [...]
The ‘Marxa des Güell a Lluc a peu’ will be held on August 6 without restrictions
The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Catalina Cladera, together with the councilor of Presidency, Javier de Juan, the councilor of Mobility and Infrastructures, Iván Sevillano, and the insular director of Sociocultural Promotion, Carolina Abad, [...]
Caves in Mallorca: Temptation lives below
Mallorca hides under its surface more than five thousand caves of unparalleled beauty and great scientific value. The Mallorcan landscape, its famous beaches and the peaks of the Serra set foot on one of the [...]
Praise of the imagined Mallorca, byJesús García Marín
Quite a few writers from 98 and 27 generations passed through Mallorca and left us their impressions that can be summed up in seeing the island as a paradise, very different from the regenerationist vision [...]
Mallorca promotes its gastronomy and sports in the Netherlands
Mallorca is present throughout this week in the Netherlands, specifically in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where an action is being carried out to promote the island as a sports and gastronomic destination. The action [...]
Encarna Piñero, named ‘Businesswoman of the year in the Balearic Islands’ by CaixaBank
Encarna Piñero, CEO and executive vice president of Grupo Piñero, a Spanish multinational company dedicated to the tourism sector and present throughout the value chain of the vacation industry for almost 50 years, has been [...]
Van Gogh Alive, the world’s most visited immersive and multisensory experience, comes to Palma
This Saturday was inaugurated, exclusively in the Victoria Room of the Hotel Victoria Gran Meliá, the exhibition Van Gogh Alive, by Grande Experiences. The event was attended by authorities and a representation of artists and [...]
Muse closes Mallorca Live Festival in style
Sunday night was a real earthquake in Calvià with the performance of Muse at the Mallorca Live Festival. The band showed why they are able to congregate huge crowds and fill stadiums in a matter [...]
Joana Marcús: “As a result of devouring Harry Potter, other books arrived and so the desire to start writing them”
Nothing suggested that the young Joana Marcús, that girl who hated reading and writing so much, at only 21 years old, would end up becoming the new signing of Editorial Planeta. But sometimes reality is [...]
The Consell de Mallorca acquires the section between La Trapa and Ses Basses and adds it to the Route de Pedra en Sec
The Insular Directorate of Environment has completed the expropriation of the section between La Trapa and Ses Basses, for the first time, with the Law of public roads and hiking routes of Mallorca, a historical [...]
Alternative food: the Spanish diet changes and consolidates new habits
A portion of Iberian ham, some croquettes, a paella with prawns, a sirloin or a tumbet were typical and immovable dishes and starters of Balearic cuisine about ten years ago. Text: Juan Ignacio Orúe. Palma. [...]
Manuel Fontán del Junco: “We live in a moment of art inflation”
A collage of 5,000 images, made one per day over 13 years, was auctioned at Christie's on March 11, 2021 for $69 million. The work of the artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as 'Beeple', was [...]
Mr. Pep from Joe’s, by Eduardo Jordá
During a hospital stay, at a very bad time in my life, I had a dream that for some reason I have not forgotten. Suddenly I found myself in front of a kind of vanilla-colored [...]
The Government announces a reduction of VAT on electricity from 10% to 5%
The VAT on electricity will fall from 10% to 5%. This was announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the control session that takes place every Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies. [...]
Measures to regulate traffic access to Formentor begin today
From June 23 to September 15 it will be accessible by public transportation, on foot or by bicycle, from 10:00 am to 10:30 pm. From June 23 to September 15 it will be accessible [...]
The Govern displays the LGTBI flag in all departments to express support for Pride 2022
The Councilor of Presidency, Public Function and Equality, Mercedes Garrido, and the General Director of Coordination, Relations with the Parliament, Rights and Diversity, Isabel Castro, have deployed the LGTBI flag at the headquarters of the [...]
RIU launches the first Spanish hotel in the metaverse
RIU Hotels & Resorts wants to be a pioneer in the metaverse and explore all that it can offer. Therefore, it has decided to make its debut in the virtual world with the emblematic hotel Riu Plaza España. The [...]
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