In Son Servera this coming weekend, the fiestas for Sant Ignasi will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the plague that caused the death of 2,434 people in Son Servera, Arta, Capdepera and Sant Llorenç (Majorca). The choice of Sant Ignasi is in fact because on the saint's day in 1821 (the first of February), the military cordon around Son Servera was lifted. Arta and Son Servera had been the worst affected; in Son Servera 1,040 out of a population of 1,808 had died.
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