Vocations on the edge in Mallorca: Fewer priests, more community
Amidst a lack of succession and efforts to keep the faith alive, the island is redrawing its pastoral map with new forms of service, cooperation and commitment Text: Alba Vázquez de la Torre / Photo: [...]
Russia threatened and threatening
It would be foolish to deny Russia’s immense contribution to European culture, above all in music, dance, and literature. Great works such as Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina or Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 are part of [...]
Two journeys, two worlds, one passion
Arturo Botey tells how Peru and China surprised him after 50 years of discovering new horizons Arturo Botey poses in front of the Forbidden City, a historic complex that left him with an indelible [...]
Puerto Portals, a marina full of life
SPECIAL CONTENT Puerto Portals is a place that embraces both sea and land, where experiences intertwine with sustainability, sport and life itself. Located in the Bay of Palma, this nautical and leisure enclave has established [...]
The housing challenge: causes and solutions
Access to housing has become “the most pressing political and social issue today, both in Europe and across the Western world,” according to the United Nations, and the figures support this view: since the year [...]
The Guardians of Architectural Modernity in Mallorca
Docomomo Ibérico promotes debate around the 49 Modern Movement buildings on the island Mallorca preserves an architectural legacy that, despite its relatively recent origin and everyday appearance, often goes unnoticed. It comprises dozens of buildings [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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