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24.12.2019The Cock Crows At Midnight

Christmas Eve mass is normally just referred to as Matins, but it is also known as Missa del Gall (Mass of the Cock).

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14.12.2019The Christmas Concert Of 1933

On Christmas Day 1933 was a drawing-together of elements that established a tradition of Christmas concerts in Majorca.

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7.12.2019Doubting Thomas And The Pigs Of Sineu

The Sineu fair (Fira de Sant Tomàs) is the Mostra de Matances, the show of products made from slaughtered pigs, with charcuterie - sobrassada especially - the star of the show.

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28.11.2019Advent, Christmas Lights And Fairs

The switching-on of the lights in Palma this week is in keeping with how authorisation for illumination for Advent was once given.

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24.11.2019Patterns with Tongues and Bonfires

"Roba de llengües" (cloth of tongues) in Majorca is the only example in Europe of the "ikat" dyeing technique still being used.

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13.11.2019The Other Capital Of Majorca

The capital of the Part Forana. A capital created from rivalry, from industry, from a market, and from a fair.

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8.11.2019Santa Maria la Major: The coronation and the fiestas

Over 20,000 people were packed into a football ground for the coronation of an image of the Virgin Mary.

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30.10.2019The Founding Of The Seventh Art

Away from Palma, the Teatre-Cine Recreatiu in Llucmajor led the way on the island for what was being called the seventh art.

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19.10.2019Majorca's Greatest Celebrity

Errol Flynn had an association with the island during the 1950s that surpassed pretty much any other celebrity link that had preceded him or was to come after him.

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11.10.2019Deià And Art Tourism

Deià had its "school" of artists in the same way that Pollensa did, yet it is Pollensa which enjoys far greater prominence for having been at the centre of artistic promotion.

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5.10.2019Visions Of An Orchestra

The Balearic Symphony Orchestra, of which Majorca is rightfully proud, owes much to the vision of three contemporaries - Antoni Noguera, Josep Tous and Josep Balaguer.

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28.9.2019A Majorcan World Viewed Through Wine

The Majorcan "Weltanschauung" (world view), Josep Maria Llompart said, can be observed "through the transparencies of a glass of red wine".

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