The sale and tasting of olives were the stars of the day. | Emilio Queirolo
They've been staging an olive fair in Caimari since 1998, but the olive tradition goes back very much longer in time.
Olive oil has been produced in the village since the Roman era, though it wasn't to be until the sixteenth century and then especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the production of oil really took off.
Caimari residents will insist that the local olive oil is the finest you can get anywhere in Mallorca if not Spain or indeed the world.
Caimari, located at the foot of the Tramuntana, is close to oak forests, and the oak contributed to something else for which the village is famed - the charcoal burning of its 'carboners'.
The memory of the charcoal burners is captured in a gang of bigheads - Carboners de Caimari - who will be out and about and dancing on both days of the fair.