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3 unusual facts about Palma, Majorca


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.

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).

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.


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.

123 BC

He settles 3,000 Roman and Iberian colonists on the islands and founds the cities of Palma and Pollentia.

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.

Antonio De Martino

In 2004, on the occasion of the centenary of De Martino's death, the town of Palma Campania, the region of Campania and the province of Naples, celebrated his life with a festival and with the unveiling of a marble plaque on the facade of the Palazzo De Martino.

Barlovento

Barlovento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a municipality in the northern part of the island of La Palma in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

Bávaro

The Cocotal Golf course is in front of two Meliá Hotels (Paradisus Palma Real, Meliá Caribe Tropical) and between, the shopping mall, Plaza Palma Real.

Carmen Ordóñez

Her grandfather was the famous bullfighter Cayetano Ordóñez, known as El Niño de la Palma, the founder of the Ordóñez bullfighting dynasty.

Charles May

Charles A. May (1818–1864), American military officer and hero of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Corruption in Spain

its directors were Diego Torres Pérez and former handball star Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma the son in law of the Spanish King, who also ran a consultancy with his wife, the princess Cristina de Borbón y Grecia.

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).

Dario Di Palma

Di Palma later reached the peak of his career in 70s, when he signed the cinematography of notable titles such as Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi, Valerio Zurlini's Indian Summer and Ettore Scola's Ugly, Dirty and Bad.

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).

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.

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.

Duncan Gifford

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

ExecuJet Aviation Group

Palma, Sydney, Toluca and Wellington.

Federación Española de Guidismo

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

Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas

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

Goldenhorse

The house where they moved to and where Goldenhorse's first album was recorded had an interesting history in that it had been known as the dePalma Institute, the residence and workspace of Bruce De Palma, a controversial electrical engineer and scientist, and brother of the film director Brian De Palma.

Guantánamo

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Arroyo Hondo, Baitiquirí, Bano, Bayate, Caimanera, Camarones, Caridad, Corralillo, Cuatro Caminos, Filipinas, Glorieta, Gobierno, Guaso, Hospital, Indios, Isleta, Jaibo Abajo, Las Lajas, Macurijes, Mercado, Ocujal, Parroquia, Palma de San Juan, Rastro, Tiguabos and Vínculo.

Guten Morgen, Mallorca

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

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).

Jacobo Palm

As a concert pianist Jacobo Palm accompanied well known musicians such as Dalman from Argentina, Del Orbe from Santo Domingo, Luis Palma and the cellist Bogumil Sykora.

Jacqueline Kalimunda

An alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Jacqueline Kalimunda produced and directed in 2012 Burning Down, a Focus Features Africa First short movie with Eriq Ebouaney (Brian de Palma’s Femme fatale, Raoul Peck’s Lumumba) and Cyril Guei.

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.

Jose S. Palma

On 18 March 2006, Palma was appointed Archbishop of Palo by Pope Benedict XVI, succeeding Archbishop-Emeritus Pedro R. Dean.

Juan Bautista Sancho

; William J. Summers; Craig H. Russell; Antoni Gili: J.B. Sancho: Pioneer Composer of California, Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2007, ISBN 978-84-7632-342-7

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 Palma

Echium webbii, a variety of Echium virescens (Tower of jewels) is endemic to La Palma, as are Ceropegia fusca and Ceropegia dichotoma; varieties of Cardoncillo.

La Palma Intercommunity Hospital

La Palma Intercommunity Hospital (LPH) is an 141 bed acute care facility in La Palma, California, USA.

Let Them Chirp Awhile

Aaron Graham of Uptown Magazine wrote that the film "Owes much more to the early, sprightly comedies of Brian De Palma (Greetings, Hi, Mom!) than to overplayed Mumblecore".

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.

Nóos case

Jaume Matas i Palou (Palma de Mallorca, 1956), ex Balearic president.

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

Its head office was at Polaris House in Swindon, Wiltshire, but it also operated three scientific sites: the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) in La Palma and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) in Hawaii.

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).

Quely

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

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).

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.

Sylvestra Le Touzel

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

Valdemiro Santiago

Valdemiro Santiago (born November 2, 1963 in Palma, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is an Brazilian evangelical pastor and leader of the World Church of the Power of God.

Van Aemstel family

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


see also

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.