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Before the Council of Mallorca was the Provincial Deputation and before the Provincial Deputation was the Grand and General Council. Local g...

When, do you imagine, will the nationalist (Mallorcan) left in Palma present the motion for a decree to change the name of Plaça Espanya? Th...

The reclamation of the disappeared during the Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship on the islands. It's something of a mouthful for ...

Sa Feixina. It is the park in Palma as you turn off the Paseo Marítimo onto the Avenida Argentina and then go right for the Paseo de Mallorc...

This was the set list. 1. "Twist And Shout" . 2. " She's A Woman" . 3. "I'm A Loser" . 4. "Can...

In a year's time Spain faces a Franco issue. "El Caudillo" died on 20 November, 1975. Does the fortieth anniversary merit so...

A publishing house closed last month. It was eighty years old and was one of Mallorca's most important and most famous publishing comp...

An exhibition being held in Malmö, Sweden will be coming to an end this weekend. It is an exhibition devoted to hippies of the Soviet era, e...

I have never been to The Maldives. It is one of those holiday destinations that is a brochure-writer's dream. How many meaningless super...

In Puerto Pollensa there is a street that connects the coast road to the Calle Juan XXIII just by the petrol station. To one side of this st...

Francesc Vicens can't be accused of not being eclectic in his musical interests. Two years ago, the views of this Mallorcan musicologist...

There are times when news reports make you sit up and pay particular attention. They do so because something crops up that you hadn't ex...

In a café - Spanish - the other afternoon, the television was on. Nothing unusual in this. What was, was what was on. There was a platform o...

It is doubtful that many of you will have been aware of a meeting that has just taken place in Palma - it was the 29th annual assembly of th...

The former mayor of Muro, Jaume Perelló, explained in a valedictory interview that the golf course in Muro represented a further diversifica...

Does Mallorca never get snow? To see some of the reports the past couple of days, you would be forgiven for thinking that it is a once-in-a-...

Serenity. October can have this feeling, if, that is, the weather is as benign as it is at present. Sitting on the terrace a couple of after...

Who remembers that old TV film "The Knowledge"? It highlighted the lengths that London cabbies have to go to in order to learn the...

Flags. You get quite a few flags on houses here. By the beach near me is a group of holiday chalets on top of which is a flag. An ancient Ge...