The Argentinean singer Sergio Bustos together with Leo Juanes and Alfredo Oyagüez on piano will give a concert of Andean and Latin Music as well as tango in Palma de Mallorca. The concert will be part of the annual world-class outdoor spectacles that are held in the magnificent courtyard of the Palau March. The show [...]
Monats-Archiv: June 2009
The Museu de Mallorca offers an interesting tour around the history of the island
June 26, 2009 – 12:05 pm
The Museu de Mallorca, which was set up in 1976, is located in the typical Majorcan property of the Counts of Ayamans, popularly known as Ca la Gran Cristina. The Museum contains archaeological remains, ranging from important Talaiots pieces to figures and ceramics from the Modernist period as well as examples of the stages in [...]
Real Mallorca´s football player Miguel Ángel Moyá
June 25, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Majorcan football player Miguel Ángel Moyá, who is currently playing for Real Mallorca, received an offer from the football club in Valencia. His agent Manuel García Quilón said, that Ángel Moyá was very interested and confirmed talks between both football clubs, Mallorca and Valencia. García Quilón also mentioned that also other European teams are interested [...]
Verdi’s “La Traviata” will be performed in the Castell de Bellver
June 25, 2009 – 3:05 pm
On July 4 Giuseppe Verdi’s famous opera “La Traviata” will be shown on the stunning property of the Castillo de Bellver in Palma de Mallorca. In total 150 artists – mainly singers and musicians of the Balearic Islands – are involved. The spectacle was organized in collaboration with the town councils of Andratx and Palma, [...]
The Palau March in Palma de Mallorca
June 23, 2009 – 1:45 pm
The March Palace in Palma de Mallorca was built between 1939 and 1944 by the Spanish financier Juan March. It covers an area of over 1,500 square metres and is situated on a property on the site of the previous Santo Domingo Convent between the Círculo Mallorquín, the Calle Conquistador and the Calle Palau Reial. [...]
Annual concerts in the exceptional setting of the Torrent de Pareis
June 23, 2009 – 11:28 am
The concerts in the Torrent de Pareis in Escorca were initiated in 1964 by the Spanish painter Josep Coll Bardolet, who owns a property in Valdemossa, aiming to familiarize people with choral music. The annual concerts were intimate, but by the time the spectacular setting of the Torrent de Pareis, which was declared a Natural [...]
A new exhibition in Mallorca’s Es Baluard Museum
June 22, 2009 – 2:14 pm
“Under the Snow” is the current exhibition in the Es Baluard Museum. It includes twelve large-format paintings and fourteen drawings by the Russian couple Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, who immigrated into the United States during the era of the Soviet regime. The images, which were produced between 2004 and 2006, show the couple’s native country [...]
Majorca – An island with a long and eventful history
June 22, 2009 – 12:09 pm
Majorca has a long history, which was mainly formed by conquerors, invaders, settlers and tourists. The Balearic Islands were formed around 150 million years ago. At first Mallorca was joined to the peninsula as an underwater island. One hundred million years later it became the island it is now. The main vegetation at that time [...]
Forthcoming shows and concerts in Majorca
June 17, 2009 – 3:15 pm
On June 18 the Compania Joan Fullana is staging a show which is an exceptional semi-biographical recreation of the person as well as the works of the poet and musician Guillem D´Efak. D´Efak was born in Guinea and spend most of his life in the village of Manacor in Mallorca and Barcelona. Those were the [...]
Ramon Llull
June 17, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Ramon Llull was a philosopher and writer, born in 1315 in Palma de Mallorca. He still is one of the most significant Majorcans of our time; wandering through the island one will see his name on street signs and his statues on public properties. By writing his entire, comprehensive work in Catalan, he made his [...]