MALLORCA TODAY - Dry stone route in Pollensa delayed for six years

In 2007 provision was made to create a walkway for ramblers on the dry stone route in Pollensa, one that would allow walkers to avoid crossing the contentious Pollensa to Lluc old road. Currently, a temporary diversion involves walkers crossing the road four times but going in places in the wrong direction. The walkway has not been created because action on making the necessary land available has still not been taken by the regional government.

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MALLORCA TODAY - Decisions on management of Tramuntana by the end of the year

The Council of Mallorca is looking to complete the process of handing over to private operators the running of two of the dry stone route refuges in the Tramuntana (those in Deià and Pollensa) by the end of the year. The privatisation will save the Council around 250,000 euros.

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MALLORCA TODAY - Tramuntana refuges receive 18,000 guests

The five refuges (hostels) on the dry stone route through the Tramuntana mountains will have received just over 18,000 guests by the end of the year. The annual cost of maintenance of the refuges has climbed to over one million euros, this cost being a principal reason why the Council of Mallorca wants to privatise two of them (one being in Pollensa).

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MALLORCA TODAY - Pollensa mayor proposes alternative to Lluc walk

Pollensa's mayor Tomeu Cifre has proposed that an alternative be found to the full recovery of the old Pollensa-Lluc walk as he considers this recovery to be impractical. The proposal would involve combining with the dry stone route. The mayor's family finca occupies land on the old Lluc walk.

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MALLORCA TODAY - Pollensa's refuge to be privatised

It has taken several months to confirm but the Council of Mallorca has finally and officially set in motion the process to privatise two of the five refuges on the Tramuntana dry stone route, one in Deià, the other by the Roman bridge in Pollensa. The debt for running the refuges in 2011 was 600,000 euros, hence the decision to privatise. The services offered to walkers by the refuges will not be changed under the planned privatisation.

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