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Sant Jordi 2024: Books and Roses

April 20, 2024April 23, 2024

On Sant Jordi, it’s all about books. Books and roses, actually. On April 23 Mallorca celebrates Sant Jordi 2024, so don’t forget to get a good read and a rose for your loved one. There are plenty of book and flower stalls all over the island, above all in Palma. Young and old cluster around the book tables. Not only because book shops offer special discounts. It’s a meet and greet. Writers sign their books, families exchange reading tips. There is music and dance in the streets. And a smile on…

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Llibreria Pròpia: Women’s Stories

April 14, 2024April 15, 2024

Music, cheer and laughter echoes from the plaza through the streets of old town Palma. Where sunlight floods through the trees a diverse crowd is partying with live acts and dance. Palma’s first feminist bookshop is celebrating its first anniversary. Llibreria Pròpia offers a broad, by no means exclusively pink program not only on this festival weekend. Aldana Areca compiled an impressive selection of different genres in her beautiful book store. Llibreria Pròpia is all about women’s stories…

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Fira del Llibre 2023: Open-Air Book Fair

May 27, 2023May 29, 2023

From this weekend on, the Fira del Llibre in Palma attracts book lovers in a most beautiful setting. The traditional book fair has returned to the city’s noble boulevard El Born. And for ten days in a row, the city’s most engaged booksellers…

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Sant Jordi: World Book Day

April 23, 2023May 14, 2024

It’s all about books, today. Books and roses, actually. Mallorca celebrates Sant Jordi, so don’t forget to get a book and a rose for your loved one. There are plenty of book and flower stalls all over the island, above all in Palma. Young and…

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Fancy Finds: Panorama Bar Bazar

March 19, 2023March 19, 2023

You know that feeling of a favorite piece finding you instead of you finding it? Something you have never been looking for, that you may not even have known existed. That could easily happen at Panorama Bar Bazar. Kind of a concept bar in the…

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When We Were Young: Boomers by Bartolomé Seguí

February 9, 2023February 22, 2023

Tonight, the Mallorcan cartoonist and illustrator Bartolomé Seguí presented his new book. And the rows of chairs at Rata Corner were filling in no time. „Boomers“ tells of a group of longtime friends who get together some 30 years after they…

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Coming of age: Historias del Barrio

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

A wide starry sky over an orange grove, in the middle of it a red convertible. The radio plays “Golden Brown” by the Stranglers. Three city kids, none of them 18 years old yet, got lost in the Mallorcan countryside. At the end of the joyride…

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The pleasures of reading: BiblioJardí

June 13, 2018June 29, 2019

As much as I love Mallorca’s countryside, the sea and the mountains I’m a real city dweller. That’s why I live in Palma. Yet, every once in a while I long for a calm shady garden where you can sit under tall trees and get lost in a gripping…