The town relives the Turkish invasion of 1552 with a festive battle
The town relives the Turkish invasion of 1552 with a festive battle.
The tenth anniversary of Valldemossa’s Moors and Christians
The Valldemossa re-enactment of a sixteenth century clash with Ottoman pirates is less well known than the battles of Pollensa and Soller; there is also Sant Elm, but this isn’t in the same league.
Moors and Christians battle it out in Valldemossa on Saturday
Moors and Christians battle it out in Valldemossa on Saturday.
What's on in Mallorca from Friday to Sunday
Moors and Christians in Santa Ponsa; Palma's rearranged big water fight; more fiestas and more music festivals.
Mallorca fiestas: Moors and Christians in Santa Ponsa
Moors and Christians in Santa Ponsa.
Moors and Christians in reverse
Bunyola will point to its underwear race for the Sant Mateu Fiestas, Binissalem to its grape battle for the Vermar grape harvest fiestas, but Santa Ponsa’s Rei en Jaume Fiestas arguably represent the climax of the summer season of fiestas.
Moors and Christans in Pollensa 2023
Joan Mas (Jaume Mercer in 2023) and Dragut (Joan. M. Seguí) have their first clash.
The little-known story of Sant Elm’s Moors and Christians
The history behind the Pollensa and Soller Moors and Christians battles is widely known, but there is far less familiarity with the background to one of the other reenactments - Sant Elm in early August.
Battle Moors and Christians (Sant Elm 2017)
Moors and Christians battle it out on the beaches of Sant Elm.
Soller's big battle - the outcome was never in doubt
The re-enactment of events of May 11, 1561.
The Moors and Christians re-enactment in Pollensa which takes place in August
The Moors and Christians re-enactment in Pollensa which takes place in August.
Moors and Christans in Puerto Soller
People watching as the moors arrive to Soller's port.
Propaganda, legend and the curious fact of the pirates of Soller
The whole of the Balearics was at the mercy of pirates.
Battle between Moors and Christians in Soller
Battle between Moors and Christians in Soller.
Return of the Santa Ponsa battle
Eleven groups of Moors clashed with eleven groups of Christians.
Moors and Christians battle in Pollensa, Mallorca
The initial clash between Moors and Christians is pretty fierce.
Fined for causing injury during Pollensa's Moors and Christians battle
A 'Moor' kneed a 'Christian' in the chest during the battle in 2017.
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