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I came to Mallorca for the first time when I was eight years old, together with my parents. I was\u00a0one more when we moved completely, and not just for the summer, to the island. I already understand\u00a0that at that age any change is an exciting adventure and that coming from\u00a0Madrid, discovering the sea \u2014in Port de Pollen\u00e7a first; in Palma afterwards\u2014 by necessity it means something that leaves its mark forever.<\/p>\n

That island was, to put it in the briefest and most certain way that exists,\u00a0splendid. Both the Port in the summer, with a small Majorcan boat tied\u00a0to the quay in front of Villa Clorinda, and Palma during winter, despite the fact that I was obliged to go to school, represented something like paradise. In the big house on Jos\u00e9 Villalonga Street we had no heating whatsoever, apart from the fires in the fireplace and the kitchen, but even though the humidity beset you, turning going to sleep into\u00a0an ordeal, the balance was entirely favorable. I could always put the dogs, Pichi\u00a0and Chispa, up to bed an hour earlier to warm it up.<\/p>\n

You have to force your memory a lot to see in Plaza Gomila a haven of peace with coffee tables where Joan Mir\u00f3 and Toni Kerrigan accompanied my father. Or to go back to the times when, waiting for the school bus, we played soccer in that same square. On one occasion I knocked down a traffic sign \u2014that served as a goal\u2014 with the ball and the press reported that Camilo Jos\u00e9 Cela had been fined for an act of hooliganism. How happy is a world in which that is news.<\/p>\n

Fifty or sixty years later, Mallorca\u00a0shows another character. The Port de Pollen\u00e7a is consumed by demolitions and traffic. The Plaza Gomila supposes, with all the El Terreno, an urban horror
\nthat they say once again that it is going to be fixed although speculation may\u00a0now succeed. Tourists beat an undesirable record year after year; In short,\u00a0the overcrowding is linked to an increase in the cost of all aspects of life, from\u00a0the rental of the house to the shopping\u00a0basket. With the aggravating circumstance that the trend is increasing and\u00a0the limit is nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n

Geographers -those who are dedicated to physical geography- maintain\u00a0that it is the same island. Geographers\u00a0\u2014those who attend to human geography\u2014 know that it is not. And me, with\u00a0the only baggage of my childhood memories, I have already fled from there if\u00a0only for not continuing to cry.<\/p>\n

Texto: Camilo Jos\u00e9 Cela Conde<\/em>. Escritor.<\/p>\n

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Paseo Mar\u00edtimo del Port de Pollen\u00e7a. Foto: R.B.<\/p><\/div>\n

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