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There is a well in Alcudia which, in August 1707, was covered over by the order of what then constituted a town hall. The local authority wa...

There's a short film that those good people from Fotos Antiguas de Mallorca have loaded onto YouTube and which shows an excursion fro...

There is a hotel chain which, unless you have been to certain luxury establishments in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, you will probably ...

Have you ever heard the story about the town which used to have a beach but no longer does? There is one such town and it lost its beach 6...

Palma's Palacio de Congresos is almost ready to go, almost being the operative word. There are things missing, such as seats in the audi...

There was a great deal of interest in windmills last week. It was to do with the Euroregion windmills' route, the Euroregion in question...

Every picture tells a story. Today's obsession with social networks is both positive and less positive. Among all the vanity stuff, the ...

Some examples of the varied and sometimes unusual past and present in Mallorca that appeared in my Enjoying Majorca column in the Bulletin ....

In March 1916, they formed a football team. Its name was initially the Alfonso XIII Football Team, a quite deliberate adoption of an Anglici...

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, the curtain on which comes down this evening with its awards ceremony, was partly intend...

It is 1931. Mallorca, as with the rest of Spain, is enduring the upheaval that had characterised most of the century to that point and would...

It is, when you think about it, a bit odd. There you are, stuck on an island some 250 kilometres off the Spanish mainland to which your owne...

The mule has its own place in Mallorca's story. Along with the donkey, it was a prime source of energy for mills and wells. Blindfolde...

I recently had a conversation about "mafias" in Mallorca. A point I made was, as I have written in a previous article, that it is ...

There was this interview. It was with the philologist who is responsible for linguistic use at the IB3 broadcaster. At the conclusion of the...

There has long been debate as to who actually was responsible for introducing the potato to England. But regardless of the competing claims ...

I don't normally buy a German newspaper, but I did on Tuesday. I was attracted by the front page, most of which was filled by a sepia ...

Ever in search of the curious or obscure historical development in Mallorca, it was with keen interest that I discovered the other day tha...

The tale was once told to me by the then very old man who could recall the planes of Alcúdia. He spoke of different aircraft - the seaplan...

On 19 November 1981 the culture department at the Council of Mallorca held the first of what has since become an annual conference. It was t...