The Fira de sa Perdiu 2024 in Montuïri, a rendezvous with Mallorcan tradition
The Fira de sa Perdiu 2024 in Montuïri, one of the most iconic events in Mallorca, will take place on Sunday, 1st December. This traditional Mallorcan fair, now in its 45th edition, attracts thousands of [...]
The hospitality industry mourns the death of Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, founder of Meliá Hotels International
The world of tourism and hospitality bids farewell to one of its most prominent figures. Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, founder of Meliá Hotels International, has passed away at the age of 89. His legacy, built over [...]
Palma offers free parking to encourage shopping in local stores this Christmas
The Palma City Council, in collaboration with PalmaActiva and SMAP, has launched a special free parking campaign during the 2024-25 Christmas season to encourage shopping in local businesses and establishments across the city. The initiative, [...]
The citizens of the Balearic Islands contribute 576 proposals to the Sustainability Pact
Online platform created as part of the Social and Political Pact for Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability of the Balearic Islands has completed its phase of receiving citizen proposals, registering a total of 576 contributions [...]
Reports of gender-based violence in Palma increase by 18%, with 4,641 cases recorded in 2023
The annual report on Violence Against Women in Palma reports 4,641 cases of gender-based violence in 2023. This represents an 18% increase compared to 2022, with 692 more complaints. There were also 365 sexual freedom [...]
Rafa Nadal retires from professional tennis: a legendary career comes to an end
20 November 2024, just after midnight, Rafa Nadal has officially bid farewell to professional tennis following Spain's elimination in the Davis Cup against the Netherlands. In the match that marked his goodbye, the Manacor native [...]
The Government asks the transport sector for “responsibility” and guarantees supply
The Government has asked the transport sector for "responsibility" after Monday's strike, "which had not been officially called and which has not benefited anyone", and has insisted that "supply is guaranteed" in the Balearic Islands. [...]
Transporters protest in Palma over fuel prices
The rise in fuel prices in Palma sparked a protest by dozens of carriers that began very early with traffic jams on the Vía de Cintura. The detentions reached the Paseo Marítimo. Through social media, [...]
Businessmen from the Balearic Islands demand measures for the rise in the price of food and energy
The sharp increase in the price of energy and food puts the Balearic business community on alert, which little by little begins to demand measures so that the cost of the general economy does not [...]
The Sant Sebastià 2022 concerts in Palma already have new dates
The Sant Sebastià 2022 concerts in Palma, which were canceled in January due to the pandemic, already have new dates. Precisely this year, when the budget and the lineup of artists promised a more massive [...]
The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar expands with three covered courts
The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar is constantly renewed with services and facilities. In addition to the clay courts that were recently added, the Manacor sports center now has three electric blue covered courts located [...]
Rels B concert in Mallorca: the popular rapper plays for free in Palma on March 18
The rapper from Palma Rels B plays for free in Mallorca on March 18 at the Parc de Sa Riera at the start of the 'Flak Tour 2022' tour that will take him to Latin [...]
More than a hundred teams participate in the Mallorca Classic Rally
The XVIII Isla de Mallorca Classic Rally, based in Puerto Portals, will take place until next Saturday on different roads on the island with the participation of more than 100 teams of ten nationalities and [...]
The price of housing in the Balearic Islands shoots up almost 10%, the highest rate in Spain
The Balearic Islands was the Spanish region in which the price of housing grew the most last year, with an increase of 9.6% compared to 2020, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics [...]
The cheapest gas stations in Mallorca: map of stations and prices
The price of gasoline 95 and diesel in Mallorca continues to rise due to the high price of oil and the cost of energy. Already in Palma you get between 1.80 euros per liter and [...]
Palma celebrates Paco de Lucía with a flamenco festival
From March 9 to 13, the first edition of the Paco de Lucía Festival will be held in Palma with young flamenco figures and prominent figures, such as the Soleà brothers and Kiki Morente. The [...]
NitBus users will be able to get off at the point closest to their destination
Users of the Palma NitBus network will be able to ask the driver for the bus to stop at its closest point to their destination from Friday 11 March. The measure seeks to provide urban [...]
According to Impulsa Balears, 21% of female workers on the islands are overqualified
The gender inequality index, drawn up by IMPULSA BALEARS based on the United Nations methodological proposal, places the archipelago in the 6th most favorable position in a regional ranking that appeals to the empowerment of [...]
Palma organizes more than thirty proposals to commemorate the 8M
The City Council's Social Justice, Feminism and LGTBI area has drawn up a program with around thirty proposals to celebrate International Women's Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, March 8. The document includes a compilation of [...]
Cercas: “The Bluebeard castle happens in Mallorca because it was inevitable”
Cosette is 17 years old and is the daughter of Melchor Marín, the Catalan policeman who stars in the novels Terra Alta (2019) and Independencia (2021), by the writer Javier Cercas. The teenager discovers that [...]
Iberostar is looking for kitchen staff, receptionists and waiters for its hotels in Mallorca
The economic recovery encourages the Iberostar hotel chain, which seeks to cover 135 places this season for the hotels it owns in Mallorca, as has Meliá. For this reason, the hotel company led by Miguel [...]
Spain recovers 60% of international tourists in January compared to the same month of 2020
In January, Spain recovered 60% of the international tourists who arrived in the same month of 2020, in the pre-pandemic stage. The nearly 2.5 million foreign visitors are more than five times the number of [...]
Can Balaguer hosts a photographic exhibition on the guitars of Paco de Lucía
Can Balaguer hosts until March 27 the exhibition "Against the strings. Paco de Lucía's guitars". The exhibition, which is part of the Paco de Lucía Festival, brings together forty photographs of the musician's guitars, taken [...]
Unemployment in the Balearic Islands decreases almost 38% year-on-year
The Balearic Islands registered 52,504 unemployed people in February, which is 37.9% less than a year ago (32,077 less unemployed, the largest reduction in all of Spain, where unemployment fell by 22.4% year-on-year). As happened [...]
The Government seeks places to locate Ukrainian refugees
The Balearic Government is looking for places to locate the Ukrainian refugees that the central Executive will send after the European Union decided to welcome them to alleviate the migratory pressure of the bordering countries. [...]
COVID-19: Spain eliminates quarantines for close contacts
The Public Health Commission has agreed to lift, as of March 5, the obligation to quarantine all close contacts of positive cases of coronavirus, which until now had to be kept by unvaccinated people, which [...]
Premium wines from the Balearic Islands recover the sales rate prior to COVID-19 with an increase of 36%
The marketing of quality wines from the Balearic Islands has increased by 36% in 2021 compared to the 2020 data. Therefore, it has recovered its pre-pandemic rate. Wines with Designation of Origin (DO), Binissalem and [...]
Ukraine: fear gains ground in dark cities with deserted streets
“Yesterday I spoke with a Majorcan friend. I told him that we Ukrainians are defending our land, our traditions, our houses, our culture and our history, and these are not just words, they are feelings”. [...]
The Government considers the Russian invasion in Ukraine “unacceptable” and calls for a diplomatic solution
The Consell de Govern has approved an institutional declaration in the face of the Russian invasion in Ukraine calling for the cessation of military actions and for a return to the law and international law. [...]
With anger and anguish, the Ukrainians demanded in Palma the end of the war
Around 600 Ukrainians with flags, "No to war" and "Stop War" signs and insults against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, gathered in Plaza España to repudiate the Russian invasion that broke out in the [...]
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