Mallorca, the jewel of the Balearic Islands
Majorque (Mallorca in Catalan and in Spanish) is the biggest island of the Balearic Islands, which the archipelago also includes Minorque, Ibiza and Formentera, in the Mediterranean Sea, off Barcelona.
The island counts approximately 730 000 inhabitants. Iits capital is Palma de Majorca - Ciutat. It includes 6 main lands: Tramuntana (mountains, in the North), Ponent (in the southwest), Raiguer (farmlands and wine at feet of the mountain), Pla (in the center), Migjorn (in the East), Llevant ( southeast) and the city of Palma.
It was lived from the prehistoric period (sites of Ses Païsses, near the city of Arta), then by Romans (ruins of Roman Alcúdia, ex--Pollentia), replaced by the Moors Almoravides, then the Almohades (from 902 in 1229), followed by the Catalans. The island was the center of an independent kingdom which existed from 1276 till 1344, the kingdom of Majorca.
The Catalan is the official tongue, and the more used in Mallorque, before the Castilan.
Approximately 93 % of its gross domestic product results from the tourism, developed from 1960s. For the Germans, Majorca is one of the main places of holiday resort European, thus attracting(enticing) number of foreigners, what was worth in the island the ironic nickname of seventeenth Land. The traditional agricultural activity is centred on the vegetable productions: wine ( Binissalem), almonds, olives, vegetables.
If in many spirits Majorca remains synonymic of anarchy tourism, inhaled by the sea and pushed by an urbanization of mass (" balearisation "), the island and the majorquine life offer many aspects which contradict this vision: protected agricultural villages, diverse tracks of past cultures, art and culture (in the XVth century, the philosopher Raymond Lulle based in Majorca a considered school of languages and theology) , walking and hiking in the mountainous zones, the gastronomy. Our selection of hotels in Mallorca will no doubt charm you
The tourist influx became more varied (previous history and lifestyles), with a growing part of immigration of European of the North coming to settle down permanently on the spot.
Fortunately for some years, this "Balearisation" is more and more controlled by the avid government for protecting its inheritance and culture.
Many zones were decreted natural Reserve, thus protecting the littoral against this anarchistic expansion.
Our selection of accomodations in Mallorcaon the coast on the beach, on the rural suburban side and in Palma will surely seduce you!
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