Illes Balears - Balearic Nativity Scenes

Illes Balears Balearic Nativity Scenes

by | posted: March 28, 2012
December is on the way and with it comes Christmas, a time replete with celebrations, joy and traditions, such as mounting nativity scenes and displaying them in homes, churches and institutions.
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Palma de Mallorca: The Festa de l'Estendard – Banner Day

Palma The Festa de l’Estendard – Banner Day

by | posted: March 10, 2012
Every New Year’s Eve, Palma celebrates the Festa of l’Estendard to commemorate the incorporation of Mallorca to into Europe’s Christian kingdoms.
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Mallorca - Binissalem: "Festa des Vermar", the grape harvest festival

Binissalem: Festa des Vermar, the grape harvest festival

by | posted: March 2, 2012
In September, the month of the grape harvest, Binissalem celebrates its most important festival, the “Festa des Vermar”, which for nine days transforms this wine growing town into a hive of...
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Mallorca The Festivity of Les Verges – St. Ursula’s Eve

The Festivity of Les Verges, St. Ursula’s Eve

by | posted: March 2, 2012
On the evening of October 20, the streets fill with groups of young men who take advantage of the ancient tradition of serenading girls to meet, sing and enjoy traditional buñuelos, the local version...
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Mallorca - The Chant of the Sybil

The Chant of the Sybil

by | posted: March 1, 2012
On Christmas Eve, to commemorate Jesus’ birth, Balearic churches celebrate the so-called Misa del Gallo or Matines, which is accompanied by the Chant of the Sybil, a medieval musical composition...
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Mallorca - Palm Sunday all around Mallorca

Palm Sunday all around Mallorca

by | posted: March 1, 2012
All over Mallorca, Palm Sunday, or Sunday of the Passion, marks the beginning of Easter Week with palm fronds to commemorate Jesus Christ’s entry in Jerusalem.
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Mallorca Mare de Deu (Mother of God) festival

Mare de Deu (Mother of God) festival

by | posted: February 29, 2012
As tradition demands, a representation of the bed where the remains of the Virgin Mary lie is profusely decorated in the Churches, and on the following day they take her out in procession
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Mallorca - The Sant Tomas Fair and slaughtering day display in Sineu

The Sant Tomas Fair and slaughtering day display in Sineu

by | posted: February 29, 2012
The tradition of homemade sausage-making, a painstaking job that turned the need to conserve foods for the winter into a festive event, has survived in the Balearic Islands down the ages.
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Palma de Mallorca: Pancaritat - Festa de l'Angel

Palma Pancaritat Festa de l’Angel

by | posted: February 28, 2012
On the Sunday following Easter, many places in Majorca celebrate the Pancaritat (Festa de l’Àngel in Palma), a romería or pilgrimage excursion, the origins of which date back to the year 1407....
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Illes Balears - Easter processions

Illes Balears – Easter processions

by | posted: February 28, 2012
The diverse brotherhoods ‘ brotherhoods of believers ‘ start off the processions along the streets of diverse locations in the islands, recreating the last days of Christ
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Palma de Mallorca -The Feast of Santa Lucía

Palma The Feast of Santa Lucía

by | posted: February 19, 2012
Mallorca’s resident Swedish community has been celebrating this saint’s feast day in typical-Swedish style in Plaza de Cort every December 13 since 1985.
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Mallorca - Fiestas de San Agustín in Felanitx

Fiestas de San Agustín in Felanitx

by | posted: February 18, 2012
Cavallets and dimoni are featured in the San Agustín saint’s day festivities in the Mallorcan town of Felanitx, which also includes concerts, street bands and sporting events.
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Palma de Mallorca -The Procession of the Beata, St. Catalina Thomàs

Palma The Procession of the Beata, St. Catalina Thomas

by | posted: February 18, 2012
The city of Palma demonstrates St. Catalina Thomàs’ popularity with Palma residents and Mallorcans in general with a traditional profession of floats, music and dances on the third Saturday in October.
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Palma de Mallorca The Feast of Corpus Christi

Palma The Feast of Corpus Christi

by | posted: February 18, 2012
Corpus Christi, celebrated sixty days after Easter Sunday, is a colourful, traditional holiday in Palma. Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Body and Blood, is a major Catholic holiday with a mass and procession...
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Mallorca - Gegants i Capgrossos

Gegants i Capgrossos

by | posted: February 18, 2012
The Gegants i Capgrossos (giants and big-heads) form part of the festive tradition all over Spain, especially in Menorca and Mallorca, where these enormous figures play an important role in the popular...
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Palma de Mallorca - Fira del Ram

Palma Fira del Ram

by | posted: February 18, 2012
The Fira del Ram is an amusement park that brings together attractions by the hundred and visitors by the thousands every year. March/April.
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Mallorca Diada celebration

Diada celebration

by | posted: February 18, 2012
A number of institutional acts and activities for residents, such as concerts, conferences and sporting events at sea and in the mountains, take place on this day in Mallorca.
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