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34 unusual facts about Majorca


100 Acres of Sycamore

Upon meeting actress Anna Friel in Benicassim, in 2010, Regan subsequently began writing 100 Acres of Sycamore whilst staying at her home in Deia, Majorca.

1971–72 Derby County F.C. season

Derby's destiny was not in their own hands and they left the country to escape the pressure; Clough holidayed with his family in the Isles of Scilly whilst Taylor went to Majorca with the players.

Aemilia Laracuen

After meeting in New York, Graves persuaded her to come to live near him in Deià on Majorca.

Antonio Maura

When he was Prime Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII, he spent summers at the estate of Can Mossenya, historically part of the Valldemossa Charterhouse in Majorca.

Brussels Barbarians

Whilst since then they have failed to repeat their championship win, they have had successful tours to Spain, Czechoslovakia, Boston, Estonia and Majorca.

D'Nash

Just before entering the competition, they announced a change of name from Nash to D'Nash, due to the existence of a rapper called NACH (this not entirely correct, the power pop band The Nash from Majorca was paid out because it had the name registered for ten years and had been releasing albums all this time).

Dígame

Dígame (meaning 'tell me' in Spanish) is the title of a monthly listings magazine for the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca which is the best read English language magazine on the island.

Duncan Gifford

He has been a professor of piano at the Conservatory of Palma in Majorca since 2006.

Elizabeth, Louisiana

Faye Emerson, known in the early 1950s as the "First Lady of Television", was born in Elizabeth in 1917 and died in Majorca in 1983.

Federación Española de Guidismo

The Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca (EGM; Scouts and Guides of Mallorca) serves two Scout and Guide groups on Majorca.

Guten Morgen, Mallorca

Guten Morgen, Mallorca (translated: Good Morning, Majorca) was a German television series set on the island of Majorca.

Jaled el Masri

The Boeing 737 airliner that transported Jaled el Masri and the CIA team landed in La Palma, Majorca, a Spanish Island in the Mediterranean.

Jasper Wrath

In time, complications in obtaining British work permits, they take a holiday in Majorca, Spain co-writing some of Jasper Wrath’s most memorable compositions, i.e.: "You", "The Dream", "Somewhere Beyond The Sun", "The City", "Touch The Sky", and "The Ghost of Way".

Joaquín María Bover de Roselló

Joaquín María Bover de Roselló (in Catalan: Joaquim Maria Bover de Roselló or Joaquim Maria Bover i Roselló; in Spanish: Joaquín María Bover de Roselló) (Seville, 1810 - Palma de Mallorca, 1865) was a Spanish writer and editor who wrote primarily in Spanish but also some poems in Catalan.

Kevin Ayers

After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.

La Vall de Gallinera

After the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609, the Vall de Gallinera became deserted and the Duke of Gandia, to whom this area was adscribed, brought from Majorca 150 families to repopulate the valley.

Lorenzo Campeggio

Charles later (2 September 1530) gave Campeggio the Spanish bishopric of Huesca and Jaca, which he held until 17 June 1534 when he became bishop of Candia (Crete) (until 1536); in 1532, moreover, when making Campeggio's son Gianbattista bishop of Majorca, the emperor reserved the administration of the see to the young man's father.

Luis Ladaria Ferrer

Luis Ladaria Ferrer was born in Manacor, on the island of Majorca, Spain and studied at the University of Madrid, graduating with a degree in law in 1966.

Palacio Cabanellas

The palace was projected around 1914 by the Majorcan architect Francisco Roca (Francesc Roca i Simó), who had been personally influenced by Antoni Gaudí during his studies in Barcelona.

Patrimonio Nacional

The Board of Directors, according to Act 23/1982 is composed by a Chairman and a Manager appointed by the King, with the advice of the Prime Minister; and ten members of renown reputation, including two City Councilors of towns where properties of Patrimonio Nacional are located (currently the cities of Madrid and Palma).

Quely

Quely is a family-run company founded in Majorca, Spain, in 1853, that manufactures biscuits, baked goods, and chocolate-coated products.

Reuben Agboola

He returned to Southampton where he became the landlord at the "Sporting View" bar at the Southampton Sports Centre before moving to Majorca in 2004 to run a bar.

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character.

Shri Purohit Swami

He also worked with W. B. Yeats during 1935 and 1936, on Majorca on the translations in The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, Faber and Faber).

Simon Spies

In the beginning they arranged cheap bus/boattrips to Majorca, but later (in the early 1960s) Spies bought the bankrupt Danish charter operator Flying Enterprise and formed his own airline, Conair of Scandinavia.

Snobs

After the couple marry they honeymoon in Majorca in Spain and cracks already begin to form in the marriage.

Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969

The national final took place at the Teatro Balear in Palma de Mallorca from February 20 to 22, hosted by Marisa Medina and Joaquín Prat.

The Chevelles

Running Circle Records, whose manager Michael Statesmann had connections in Australia, organised six extra Spanish shows just before the band headed home in January, and placed the Chevelles on a large support bill for a Summer Festival in the island of Majorca in July 1994.

The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang

After last robbery, Olsen Gang went to Majorca, but without any money, as Benny and Kjeld accidentally threw loot to the garbage bin.

Tom Holley

After retiring from playing, he found himself a career in journalism as a football writer for the Yorkshire Evening Post and then The Sunday People, before retiring and moving to Majorca.

Van Aemstel family

Cafes in Amsterdam, Breskens, Arnhem, and Majorca have been named Heren van Amstel after the dynasty.

William Edwards Cook

Already dismayed in the 1930s by his continuing lack of success as an artist, he apparently gave up painting, moved temporarily in Rome, and then settled with his wife in 1936 in Palma de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands.

Following his 1903 departure from the U.S., Cook resided in Paris, Rome, Russia, and on the island of Majorca, in the Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain.

Yeísmo

A similar effect took place in the local name of the island of Majorca: Mallorca is a continental Catalan hypercorrection of the earlier Maiorca.


Alberto Bayo

Bayo's most significant action during the Spanish Civil War was his invasion and retreat from the islands of Ibiza and Majorca.

David Jagger

But he also painted landscapes and stills such as Corfe Castle (date unk), Mountain road, Majorca (date unk), Meissen porcelain parrot (unk date), and Mother & Child by Stream (1912).

Dragonera

The island is a part of the municipality of Andratx, which is, along with Sant Elm (both in nearby Majorca), the closest towns to the island.

Edwin Lewis Snyder

Snyder was strongly influenced by a six-week visit to Majorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean, where he visited Palma (Majorca), Deià, Estellencs, and Formentor.

Fortunio Bonanova

That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova.

Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas

Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas (Ciutadella, Minorca, 1903 - Palma, Majorca, 1991) was a Catalan language linguist.

Helena Sá e Costa

She was among the virtuoso performers at famous festivals, such as at Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, Haarlem, Prades, Gulbenkian, Majorca, Costa del Sol, Sintra, Espinho, Costa Verde, etc.

J'adore Hardcore

The video for the single features footage of a live Scooter concert in Differdange (Luxembourg), dancers Pae and Sarah performing the Melbourne Shuffle on the streets of Melbourne (Australia) and car scenes of H.P. Baxxter, the frontman of Scooter, recorded on Majorca (Spain).

James II of Aragon

Aragon retained control over the continental territories of the Majorca kingdom — Montpellier and Roussillon — throughout James's reign.

Joan Llaneras

Joan Llaneras Roselló (born May 17, 1969 in Porreres, Majorca) is a Spanish World and Olympic points race champion track cyclist.

Majorcan midwife toad

The species is endemic to Majorca, and is found only in the mountainous regions and gorges of the Serra de Tramuntana.

Ola Brunkert

As reported in The Times of 18 March 2008, he bought a property in the Betlem housing complex in Artà, Majorca, Spain in the 1980s and lived there for the remainder of his life.

Pluricentric language

The University of the Balearic Islands is in charge of the rules of the different Balearic forms, which have not had a traditional common local name (Majorcan in Majorca, Minorcan in Minorca).

Sobrassada

# The village of Tàrbena, in the province of Alicante, was re-populated after the expulsion of the Moriscos with colonists from Majorca, who brought along several traditions from the island, including their own variant of the Catalan language and foods such as sobrasada, still made there.

Sobrassada, along with botifarró are traditional Balearic sausage meat products prepared in the laborious but festive rites that still mark the autumn and winter pig slaughter known as a matanza (in Catalan, matança) in Majorca and Eivissa.

Still Life with Guitar

Recorded on a Sony Walkman by Vatch during a cab ride in Palma, Majorca, Ayers sounds simultaneously detached, witty and poignant as he comments on the crowds around him.

Sylvestra Le Touzel

She also appeared in a classic Heineken advert "The Water in Majorca" with Bryan Pringle.