Mallorca (AA Island Maps)

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Mallorca has two mountainous regions, the Serra de Tramuntana and Serres de Llevant. Both are about 70km (43mi) in length and occupy the northwestern and eastern parts of the island respectively. Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival". abcMallorca. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015 . Retrieved 10 October 2015. Machell, Ben. "Boxer Conor Benn: why I've followed my father, Nigel, into the ring". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021 . Retrieved 12 June 2021. Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria (19 September 2015). "Minority languages in the linguistic landscape of tourism: the case of Catalan in Mallorca". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 36 (6): 598–619. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2014.979832. ISSN 0143-4632. S2CID 145220830. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2022.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Joan Miró, a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, had close ties to the island throughout his life. He married Pilar Juncosa in Palma in 1929 and settled permanently in Mallorca in 1954. [53] The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca has a collection of his works. Es Baluard in Palma is a museum of modern and contemporary art which exhibits the work of Balearic artists and artists related to the Balearic Islands.

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Joan Miró en Mallorca". Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 November 2012 . Retrieved 4 November 2012. WMO Normals Spain 1991–2020, Palma Puerto (Excel)". NOAA. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023 . Retrieved 7 October 2023. Nowadays, several streets or buildings on the island are named after him (i.e., Arxiduc Lluís Salvador).

Maria del Mar Bonet, musician, member of the Catalan language group Els Setze Jutges in the 1960s with brother Joan Ramon Bonet. Nigel Benn, former British professional boxer who moved with his family to Mallorca following the conclusion of his boxing career. [82]

Jorge Luis Borges and Mallorca". Balearsculturaltour. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017 . Retrieved 28 September 2017. Balearic Islands Tourism Board (24 July 2017). "BALEARIC ISLANDS REGIONAL CONTEXT SURVEY" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 July 2020 . Retrieved 20 November 2019.

Tisdall, Nigel (2003). Mallorca. Thomas Cook Publishing. p.6. ISBN 9781841573274. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) The specific government institution for the island is the Insular Council of Mallorca [ es], created in 1978. [77] Ritual made dance: the Ball dels Cossiers". Illes Balears. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018 . Retrieved 6 April 2018. Palma, Spain - Climate data". Weather Atlas. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017 . Retrieved 15 March 2017. Politics and government [ edit ] Emblem of the Mallorca Insular Council Regional government [ edit ]

Agatha Christie: inspired by Mallorca – Illes Balears". Govern de les Illes Balears. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014 . Retrieved 30 December 2014. The Balearic Islands were first colonised by humans during the 3rd millennium BC, around 2500–2300 BC from the Iberian Peninsula or southern France, by people associated with the Bell Beaker culture. [8] [9] The arrival of humans resulted in the rapid extinction of the three species of terrestrial mammals native to Mallorca, the dwarf goat-antelope Myotragus balearicus, the giant dormouse Hypnomys morpheus, and the shrew Nesiotites hidalgo, all three of which had been continuously present on Mallorca for over 5 million years. [10] The island's prehistoric settlements are called talaiots or talayots. The people of the islands raised Bronze Age megaliths as part of their Talaiotic culture. [11] A non-exhaustive list of settlements is the following: Florio, Erin (19 July 2018). "Spanish Island Tells Tourists to Stay Home". Condé Nast Traveler. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019 . Retrieved 20 November 2019.