Palma, European Capital of Speculation

Palma will not be a European Capital of Culture. What great news, some think, and I can understand why. Because, unfortunately, we still have political leaders who live in the 1990s, when the great managers were those who secured the Expo or the Universiade. Because that was the way to get extra money for big projects. In Palma's case, we can be very happy with the 1999 Universiade, because it allowed us to build a stadium with public funds, which is now enjoyed almost exclusively by a private company, Mallorca.

Another thought from that megalomaniacal era was 'putting the city on the map'. It happened to Barcelona, ​​too. How we long now for those cities that weren't so prominent on the map, where you could go to a bar and find a sausage or a tapa instead of... smoothies, muffins either carrot cakesAnd, of course, where they didn't tell you "What?!"When you ordered a café con leche.

Now that we're on the map, excessively so, and that we're already too well known, perhaps Palma really could be a Capital of Culture. We don't need to hold big exhibitions or events to attract more people. It would be enough to stop the literary establishment's fight against our own language, Catalan, not to promote it, but to promote hundreds of prizes."

Stop building villas in flood-prone areas, as the mayor and his city planning councilor insist, instead of protecting what little environment remains. Stop the speculation and truly become a Capital of Culture.