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Memòria democràtica |

"We have lost a crucial tool for the 100,000 dead lying in ditches."

Anna Mascaró

Teachers will have 'mosconos' days for the first time: this is how it will be decided who chooses first

Jaume Cladera Mas

The Spanish government is threatening to take the repeal of the Balearic Memory Law to the Constitutional Court.

The legendary Café Barroco says goodbye: the countdown to its possible closure has begun.

Héctor Rubio

Provisional release for those arrested in connection with the Russian arms magnate's mansions in Mallorca

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None of the residents of the former Palma prison have left the building

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Parliament of the Balearic Islands

The Government attacks Damm over the closure of Agama: "They have deceived us and will have to return the money"

Josep Genovard

Residents of three homes on Gaspar Bennàssar street were evicted due to deficiencies in the building

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PP and Vox condemn the memory law in front of the victims' families

Anna Mascaró

The CCOO union will call for limiting energy prices due to the war in Iran and rejects tax cuts.

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Por Mallorca wants to create temporary reception classrooms for newly arrived students

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Buying an apartment in Palma requires savings of around 150,000 euros, the highest figure in the country.

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Palma City Council

Controversy in the tender to manage Palma's beaches: One applicant has debts to other municipalities

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Beach, golf course and all kinds of luxury: the resort that Iran's new supreme leader has in Mallorca

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Five years in prison for raping his three-year-old daughter in Palma

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Four people arrested for extorting a couple with a katana to force them to pay more rent

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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The single school zone: when 'freedom' becomes inequality

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz: Iran attacks three cargo ships and the US attacks Iranian minelayers

Núria Sala Ventura , Antònia Crespí Ferrer , Núria Vila Masclans and Quim Aranda

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Global Periscope

Japan: the most vulnerable country in the Hormuz blockade

Josep Solano

Iran's new supreme leader owns a luxury resort in Mallorca

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"During the Franco regime, the nuns taught classes as if the Republic still existed."

Jaume Cladera Mas

Nicole Kidman, brilliant forensic scientist in the most anticipated crime series of the year

Alejandra Palés

Francesc Serés:

"Perhaps my son will never speak Catalan, perhaps he will never read me, and that's okay."

Laura Serra

The Kennedys and the luxury of not having to prove anything

Sílvia Rosés

Crafts, the new way to discover Mallorca

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The excavations in Formentera end without locating six victims of Francoist repression

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The extraction of the Roman ship from Les Fontanelles has begun

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Legalizations on rural land have boosted building permits in 2025

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What is happening in Gaza while the whole world looks towards Iran?

Catherine Carey

A former rapper, a leading figure for Generation Z, sweeps Nepal's first post-uprising elections

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The world reacts to Trump's attack on Iran: who applauds him and who condemns him?

Núria Vila Masclans

Bill Clinton, speaking to Congress about Epstein: "I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong."

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Alfredo Bryce Echenique, a leading figure in Latin American literature, dies at 87.

Xavi Serra

The Art Palma Brunch program features exhibitions at the Miró, the Casal Solleric and Es Baluard.

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Culture under control: how subsidies shape creativity in the Balearic Islands

Cati Moyà

La filla única |

'Get ready with me' to drive us completely crazy

Alba Tarragó

The law that is about to be repealed also regulates acts contrary to democratic memory

Neither investigation nor dignity for the victims: what falls with the memory law

All parties, except the PSOE, are demanding a 350 million euro road agreement in Mallorca

MÁS per Mallorca proposes that large facilities pay for the additional costs they generate on the road network

Construction on rural land in Mallorca

Terraferida promotes a manifesto to stop rural urbanization in Mallorca: "15 km² have been built in a decade"

Ryanair plane impounded for failing to pay fine for flight delay to Palma

IMAS is accused of "abandoning" the more than 200 people who will be evicted from the old Palma prison

CEIP Molí d'en Xema is the third school in the Balearic Islands with the most students.

Manacor City Council rejects the single school zone in the municipality

The school dropout rate for men is three times higher than that for women.

Education allocates 12.6 million to improve state-subsidized education

A whole world lies behind the lamp's plug and switch.

Renewable energy capacity will grow by 10% in the Balearic Islands by 2025 and will already represent almost a quarter of the total.

The sale of the Balearic food sector continues: Comercial Vera is now in the hands of the group that bought Ca Na Paulina

The Quirón magnate who owns 2% of the territory of Menorca

Protest at the doors of the Parliament on the day the Memory Law was repealed

PP-Vox, civil war rhetoric against memory

This is my thought

Pumps

María del Mar Coll, as a child

According to her mother, María del Mar Coll said: “She wanted to be a Nintendo game tester.”

Brno speaks Catalan (and we're still debating its usefulness?)

Biel Gamundí i Francesc Aguiló: "We had to sing 'Little Joan' again."

Old photo of Bar Bosch

Bosch Bar: 90 years of coffee, conversation, and lobsters

A journalist from Mallorca tried to convince Tejero to abandon the coup attempt of February 23rd.

123 years since the first public reading of 'La Balanguera' are commemorated

Royal cake, one of the most famous cakes of old-fashioned pastry.

White as snow

Traditional cuisine is disappearing and the language is becoming impoverished: “Everyone knows what ramen is, but not burballes.”

A must-see series and one of the best books of 2023: what you can't miss this week

The route of the week

Los Bini, the plateau above the rugged coastal peak of Puig Major

The kitchen entrance, a wide and deep sloping access to the Commune

The Muro mountain range, elongated between history and legend

Elite climber Erik Noya has given a masterclass.

Climbing takes a leap forward in Mallorca with the first climbing walls approved for competition

The Government will move the Balearic Islands Sports Museum to the Molinar de Montuïri Ecomuseum

Grassroots sport: when work is done, training begins

"It's my story": a university project tries to save the memory of the families affected by the DANA storm.

Daniel Martín Fernández

We had our first kiss about 21 million years ago

Sònia Sánchez

25 objects that make us rethink the role of women in history

Aure Farran

From ruin to home

Cristina Ros

"I found the love of my life under an oak tree, in the middle of the forest"

Jordi Nopca

Marta Jiménez Serrano:

"It's sad to realize how easy it is to die."

Laura Serra

Literary awards

Gonçalo M. Tavares wins the Formentor Prize for Literature 2026

Laura Serra and Jordi Nopca

Are there more food allergies and intolerances than ever before?

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

Per pa i per sal |

White as snow

Caterina Gelabert

Today we're cooking...

Shells

Caterina Gelabert

Interview Sandra Doix:

"Priorat is not like France, which uproots red grape varieties, but the new ones planted are white grapes."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez