Etiqueta 'Majorcan history'
Enjoy Mallorca: Palma’s summer fiestas one hundred years ago
The summer 1921 fiestas had essentially therefore been about having fun!!
Enjoy Mallorca: Alcudia, Sant Jaume and the disappearance of a settlement
What happened to Guinyent? Why did it disappear?
Vandals, Visigoths and Vikings: Mallorca’s uncertain history
As history goes in Mallorca, there is hardly anything, prior to the conquest of Jaume I in 1229, to which specific dates can be attached.
The mystery of the Portuguese attack of 1415
On February 23, 1415, Guillem de Santjoan got wind of an attack, and on the following day reinforcements arrived...
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"