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Food

Can Pa: Our Daily Bread

Can Pa

Palma’s newest bakery looks as stylish as the set of a Wes Anderson movie. And it’s not just fans of the famous film director who are delighted with the bread store, which was created by none other than the British industrial designer Jasper Morrison. Unlike at the movies, though, Can Pa doesn’t smell of popcorn but of freshly baked bread. Bread is so symbolic of basic needs that it even appears in the Lord’s Prayer. And if there is one institution in Mallorca that serves people every day, it’s…

Art

Con-temporary art: SOMA

Con-temporary art: SOMA

It shapes streets and squares and has long been more than a subversive part of culture. In a city like Palma street art gives character to entire neighborhoods. One of the early and prominent protagonists here is Marc Peris, aka SOMA. Even the artist’s name is a reference to Jean-Michel Basquiat and his tag SAMO in the New York of the late 70s and early 80s. But street art is not only an expression of its time, it is often also temporary in that the works disappear through the demolition or…