More than 30,000 undocumented immigrants in the Islands now have the possibility of emerging from invisibility. Since April 16, long queues at town halls have become the image of the extraordinary regularization promoted by the Spanish government. They have been preparing documentation for months, but until the last minute they did not know that they would also need a vulnerability certificate, and this partly explains the saturation of the system. "I don't understand why they want it, if all of us who are undocumented are vulnerable," reflects Abdou, a 32-year-old Senegalese. Despite this, the priority is clear. "Even if we have to lose work days: papers are papers," assures Khalid.

The extraordinary regularization process for migrant people promoted by the Spanish government is seen as a “historic” opportunity for tens of thousands of people in an irregular administrative situation in the Balearic Islands. However, jurists and legal professionals also warn of technical shortcomings and application difficulties that have generated uncertainty and occasional collapses in the first few days.

The Consell de Mallorca has been the subject of criticism this Thursday after a stand dedicated to the exaltation of the Francoist military man Millán-Astray was set up within the framework of the Feria de la Gent Gran.

April 25th is Saint Mark's Day, one of the most cherished festivities for lovers of consuming gastropod mollusks, generally known as snails. As the popular saying goes, “he who eats snails for Saint Mark's Day enjoys good health for free” and it is customary to eat them on this day. Some say that eating snails for Saint Mark's Day prevents being touched, that is, falling ill in one way or another. My great-grandmother used to eat one raw every year and she did well, until she was 93. In my town, they don't have snail feasts for Saint Mark's Day, but rather they are typical for the Cross, on May 3rd, a little later. This day is a big celebration in the Camarata neighborhood, and all the locals who have at least one leg go down to eat snails with family and friends.

A group of customers and the owner of the S’Ànnera Xafardera bar have filed cross-complaints over events that occurred on Friday afternoon at the establishment, which include accusations of insults, linguistic discrimination, attempts to leave without paying, and police intervention.

Aena's announcement to expand the aircraft parking platform at Son Bonet aerodrome has prompted an immediate response from MÉS per Marratxí and the PSOE of Marratxí, who reject any increase in airport activity and accuse the company of making decisions behind the municipality's back.

Porreras experienced a special weekend with the celebration of the Senior Citizens' Fair, an event that filled the town's streets with visitors from different parts of Mallorca. More than 4,000 people participated in this gathering, which has already established itself as one of the most prominent on the social calendar of the island's municipalities.

Vox Balears has filed an appeal against the resolution that includes the sa Feixina monolith, in Palma, in the census of Francoist symbolism, a step that opens the door to its possible removal.

What are gardens that seem so much taken from Granada in the very heart of Palma, at the foot of the Almudaina and a few steps from the Born and the sea? And even more so when the elderly people of Ciutat still remember that right here, in Hort del Rei, there were the Líric theatre, the Alhambra hotel, the mythical Riskal café... The truth, however, is that with the demolition of those buildings, what had already been a green area in the Middle Ages was recovered, only this time it was not done for the enjoyment of a monarch, but for the entire citizenry – and tourists, of course. We recall the history of Hort del Rei as sixty years have passed since the project that the architect Gabriel Alomar Esteve made in 1966 and which envisaged the recovery of that space.

The acidic smell of vinegar wafted through the kitchen, cutting through the bitterness of the green beans and the aromas of boiled vegetables. I knew that when I sat down at the table, the ordeal would begin. Spring had burst, the pods were flowering and the beans grew tender and crisp, stuffed with small green pearls inside. There was always a small furrow or two of broad beans in the yard, and some days some of these fruits would arrive at our table in a formidable, unavoidable green bean dish.

The beautification of the old center of Sineu not only served to renew the image of the municipality and pacify some of the streets in the center, but also, during the works, it became a window to the past. The archaeological monitoring of the works helped to document structures and materials that now help to understand the urban evolution of the town, with a particularly significant finding in Fossar street, where indications of the Roman era and the early Middle Ages appeared.

Located at the foot of the Tramuntana mountain range, 14 kilometers from Palma, at the beginning of the 20th century Esporles was known as the 'little Russia' of Mallorca. Its six textile factories had managed to forge a strong proletarian consciousness. The inauguration in 1930 of the Casa del Pueblo would be a reflection of that class pride. Already in the municipal elections of April 12, 1931, the municipality would be one of the few on the island where the left triumphed. Two days later, King Alfonso XIII departed into exile and the Second Republic was proclaimed.

MORE for Palma has denounced that more than 4,000 places in the city's summer sports camps are "blocked", a situation that, according to the sovereignist party, has left hundreds of families "abandoned to their fate" in the midst of family reconciliation planning.

The terraces of the Estudi General Lul·lià hosted on Thursday, April 24, at 6:00 PM a solar observation workshop that allowed participants to discover the Sun in a safe and guided way. The activity, titled Solar Observation at the Estudi General Lul·lià, was led by Pep Marcús and offered a practical approach to solar astronomy.

It is just another almond tree. One of the thousands scattered across the Mallorcan geography that have defined its landscape and, therefore, its culture and identity for centuries. Specifically, since the end of the 18th century. Filtered through Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955), however, it is many other things, without ceasing to be, precisely, an almond tree. It is a sculptural figure, which alludes to a human presence, perhaps the naked body of a woman, and at the same time it is a kind of zombie, an anonymous and forgotten vestige: a part of the remains left by the Xylella fastidiosa catastrophe in the Mallorcan countryside. It is a relic, and also a prophecy, which is difficult to distinguish whether it comes from the dream world or the real one.

Les associacions de veïns de Santa Catalina i el Jonquet, la Llotja i el passeig Marítim de Palma denunciaran públicament dimecres que ve els efectes del renou sobre la salut dels residents. L’acció s’emmarca en el Dia internacional de conscienciació sobre el renou i vol posar el focus en una problemàtica que consideren cronificada en aquests barris.

I will appreciate that the wait is finally over –especially long due to everything that has been published since it was announced it would premiere, about four years ago– to see the third season of Euphoria, one of those series that many would dismiss out of prejudice, or by thinking it has nothing to do with them, even though it talks about such a universal issue as identity construction. It's worth it just for Zendaya's sublime performance. Starting Sunday, April 12, on HBO Max.

Third installment of a new season at the Principal Theatre of Inca, home of the Orquestra de Cambra de Mallorca, which we were able to hear once again at the church of Llubí. A program that was already quite appealing in itself, with a degree of difficulty that made it an added value and with an undisputed figure, Eduardo Ríos, violinist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, as the soloist commissioned for the occasion to bring to life the Violin Concerto in D major, op. 6. One of the most convoluted concertos and the only one Ludwig van Beethoven composed for the instrument. A composition that, like so many others, carries its legend attached. Premiered by Franz Clement, he received the score very shortly before the concert, and performed it as if it were almost a first reading, but, moreover, he added a sonata of his own as a cadenza played on a single string and with the violin upside down. So difficult was the execution of the concerto that the virtuosos of the time decided it was unplayable, until, thirty-six years after its premiere, at the age of thirteen, and with Felix Mendelssohn conducting, Josef Joachim placed it on the pedestal it deserved and from which it has never descended again.

The ARA Balears awards return in 2026 to recognize, once again, projects and careers that improve these Islands and the world. Within the framework of the newspaper's thirteenth anniversary and its ninth edition, these awards aim to highlight innovative and transformative initiatives in key areas such as education, culture, social action, commitment to the Catalan language, and economic activity.

Ninth concert of the season for the Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears at the Auditorium de Ciutat, which began with the peculiar , by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, under the baton of a conductor of enormous presence in every sense, the Norwegian Rune Bergmann. He was, without a doubt, the one who turned the concert into a spectacle of dimensions that correspond to his own. Immediately after the ornithological composition came the first main course of the program, with pianist Olga Kern as the great protagonist, to perform the Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54, by Robert Schumann. He began the first movement, with a very solid, somewhat rocky style, and a very firm pulse, from the decisive entry of the piano, with a martial and powerful succession of descending chords, until reaching the polyhedral cadence of the finale, from where the composition's coloratura increased, with as much precision as elegance. Her interpretation was raising the level and delicacy, as for example, with the Andantino grazioso, a fun dialogue between the orchestra and the piano that, little by little, turns into a tender and subtle monologue of the solo instrument. Kern made her mastery and ability to suggest all this series of variations and styles that Schumann incorporated into the score, in a very novel way at the time, clear. The soloist, once again, resumed the energetic tone of the beginning, in an impetuous third movement, when, suddenly, she established a delightful new dialogue, this time with the oboe, as an announcement of the exceptional final coda that can only be described as exceptional and which served the protagonist to receive the enthusiastic applause of the audience. As it should have been and as everyone expected, there was an encore, first a Prelude, by Claude Debussy, which never disappoints or leaves one indifferent. Impeccable. And before the ovation-like plea, another little gem, by Nikolai Myaskovsky, a piano arrangement by Joseph Horovitz.

To improve muscle strength, to increase endurance, to have more energy, to have better performance, to recover faster from a tough training session... The growing interest in the gym and the obsession with perfect bodies have increased the consumption of a series of products designed to perform better and more during workouts and achieve better results. It is a fever for supplements such as protein shakes, creatine, magnesium, omega-3, or vitamin D, among others, which have become popular in recent years, especially through social networks like Instagram or TikTok. In some cases, the recommendation comes from users who do not have the training or expertise in nutrition or sports medicine, and experts warn that before starting to take any of these supplements, one must consult a professional.

In this route, we explore one of the most genuine environments of Ibiza, between the terms of Santa Eulalia del Río and San Juan de Labritja. It is a set of mountain ranges and ravines located north of the Morna plain, the continuation towards the northeast of the Amunts. One of these small mountain ranges is Mala Costa or Sierra de Morna, although on the route we also cross the Sierras de San Vicente and San Carlos.

In the heart of Es Grau, north of Maó, there are narrow streets, terraced houses, and architecture often born out of necessity and common sense. It is an urban landscape partly born from self-construction, where local materials and simple solutions have gradually shaped a unique identity. In this context, Menorcan architect Emma Martí has designed a new 256-square-meter home that fits into the existing fabric with both naturalness and singularity.

A 56-year-old man has died this Friday and another person has been seriously injured after having difficulty getting out of the water at Cala Mandia beach, in Portocristo (Mallorca).

The UIB Governing Council has approved a new regulation prohibiting smoking on the terraces of its buildings' cafeterias. The measure is part of institutional strategies to promote well-being and reduce risk factors among the university community, with the aim of consolidating safer and healthier spaces. The initiative was presented this Friday, April 24, at an event on the UIB campus attended by the Vice-Rector for Social and Cultural Projection, Adrià Muntaner, and the President of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in the Balearic Islands, José Reyes.

The citizen platform Son Bonet Pulmó Verd has denounced what it considers an attitude of “despite and disregard” by Aena towards the residents of Marratxí, following plans to increase activity at Son Bonet airport.

The academic year in Kabul begins with the start of spring, because in winter it is so cold that it is then when the school holidays are held. Before the schools reopened on March 28, my journalist colleagues and I repeatedly asked the Taliban spokesmen what would happen this year with the education of girls. We never received a clear answer. Despite everything, we had a small hope that perhaps this year would be different.

Every day that passes, the ceasefire empties more of its meaning. The US president Donald Trump has ordered the navy to "shoot to kill" any ship that places mines in the Strait of Hormuz. He announced this Thursday through a post on Truth Social –as is customary– and said that the US army "will not hesitate" to attack ships attempting to mine the strait. He also indicated that he has equally given orders for minesweeper vessels to "triple" their efforts to ensure the strait is safe for navigation.

The United States Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has been removed after several months of internal disputes with high-ranking Pentagon officials, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The dismissal, announced this Wednesday by Department of War spokesman Sean Parnell, highlights the differences within the leadership of the U.S. defense organization, immersed in the war against Iran. The Pentagon announced his departure in a brief statement, saying he was leaving the administration "with immediate effect," without providing further details. It was the Reuters agency that reported that it was a forced dismissal and not a voluntary departure, as confirmed by sources from several American media outlets.

The pilot plan of the Mossos d'Esquadra to introduce plainclothes officers in schools has a distant precedent. Beyond the data highlighted by the OECD – one in every two developed countries has similar cooperation programs between schools and authority agents "for preventive and community purposes" –, the United Kingdom began to do so shortly after the post-war period (1949, in Liverpool) with contact sessions with young people. But the most recognizable figure of agents in schools —school liaison officers— consolidated from the sixties. And the massive deployment arrived, especially, in the 2000s, under the governments of Tony Blair, with the safer school partnerships. As part of this initiative, officers —safer school officers— were assigned to specific schools, especially in vulnerable or considered problematic urban areas. In many cases, they worked physically within the schools, with an office, regular presence, and participation in the school's daily life, and also, occasionally, in the weekly and traditional assembly, the meeting of all students and staff, as a moment of reflection to strengthen the community. Usually, the officers were in uniform, as their role combined prevention and visibility.

Jorge Luis Borges dedicates a poem to Descartes titled 'Descartes' which is integrated into the poetry collection La xifra (1981), and in which he adopts the poetic voice of the philosopher himself and poetically meditates on dreams, the symbolic representation of Cartesian doubt, methodical doubt, and the metaphysical and epistemological consequences, as it affects both existence itself and the nature of reality, as well as the rational capacity to know the world. The poem also includes more vital verses, in which he disorderly reviews some events of his life.

“This book will be part of the memory for some and a discovery of the unlived reality for others”, affirms the priest and researcher Santiago Cortès in the book’s prologue. In Inca desapareguda (Efadós, 2026), the author, Carme Colom, recovers, from an extensive photographic collection and collective memory, the landscapes, trades, and transformations that have marked the passage of time in the capital of Raiguer.

The cancellation of the quiz show Yo sé más que tú, the most-watched program on IB3, has generated an immediate reaction from the audience. From the moment the announcement was made public, social networks were filled with criticism, laments, and demands for explanations from the management of the public television of the Balearic Islands. One user has gone further and has started a petition to force the entity to bring back the program.

The rise of the far right is a transversal phenomenon that affects groups from different spheres of societies. The transfeminist movement is one of them, and Argentine activists Ornella Infante (former director of the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism of Argentina) and Belén Correa (researcher at the Archive of Trans Memory of Argentina) know this well. Both warn that the rights gained in recent decades are in danger and insist that no social conquest has been made without a struggle nor is maintained without defending it. Infante and Correa participated last Friday in Palma in a meeting on memory and rights.

If a milestone can be attributed to the far-right this legislature, it is that of setting the ideological framework for the immigration debate, with the Spanish government's extraordinary regularization in the spotlight in recent weeks. The pull effect, the collapse of public services, the criminalization and instrumentalization of women's rights as an excuse to exhibit racist behavior are not the exclusive domain of Vox, with a PP concerned with capturing all the 'off-center' and right-wing vote it can in the next elections. "It's not enough, now we want much more: more majorities, more stability, fewer obstacles, fewer stumbling blocks," summarized the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, on Thursday during the presentation of her candidacy to once again lead the Balearic PP. The popular leader brandished the flag of freedom, another usual mantra when it comes to exalting the party's values.

The Consell de Mallorca will finally require a minimum of five years of legal residence to be eligible for social aid included in the package intended to alleviate the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. Initially, the island institution had planned to set this requirement at three years.

Marga Prohens has hung up her presidential robes, put on some jeans, and bet everything on blue in her first purely electoral event, this Thursday in Portitxol.remodelled once) without seats, while the deputy spokesperson in the Parliament, Marga Duran, acted as an improvised hostess and directed the attendees.

Vox Balears has filed an appeal against the resolution that includes the monolith of La Feixina, in Palma, in the census of Francoist symbols, a step that opens the door to its possible removal. The party has promoted this action, in which the municipal group in the Palma City Council, the parliamentary group and the party's structure in the Balearic Islands have coordinated.

Friday, April 24, Pacha and Amnesia; Saturday, 25, Hï Ibiza; Sunday, 26, Ushuaïa and UNVRS; Monday, 27, DC-10... If you are expert clubbers you will have recognized the calendar ofopenings of the Ibizan clubs, a true marathon for party acrobats. Impossible to be at all of them. Or is it? “Most people go to at least two or three parties”, explains the manager of the Ocio de Ibiza association, José Luis Benítez. The trip to Ibiza has to be amortized. Most of the tickets have already been sold for weeks; in total, about 30,000 tickets, a figure that is also the total capacity of the Ibizan clubs. Yes, in Ibiza there can be about 30,000 people –legally– partying every day. This year, the clubs have once again anticipated the openings –traditionally they had always been in May– aware that they are the ones who kick off the Ibizan season. And it works: Iberia Express has had to put on 12 additional flights between Madrid and Ibiza due to the openings. The dancing machine will not stop until the first or second week of October; in case you are interested, the tickets for the closings are also on sale.

Tica Font (Vall d’Uixó, 1956) is the president and researcher at the Delàs Centre for Peace Studies. A graduate in Physics from the University of Valencia, she has been director of the Catalan International Institute for Peace and president of the Catalan Federation of Peace NGOs. She is an expert in defense economics, arms trade, defense budgets, and the military industry. Font is one of the expert voices at the II Peace Conference organized by the Mallorca per la Pau platform and makes it clear that wars are a pretext for doing business.

The Governing Council of the UIB has approved a new regulation that prohibits smoking on the terraces of the cafeterias in its buildings. The measure is part of institutional strategies to promote well-being and reduce risk factors among the university community, with the aim of consolidating safer and healthier spaces. The initiative was presented this Friday, April 24, at an event on the UIB campus attended by the Vice-Rector for Social and Cultural Projection, Adrià Muntaner, and the president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in the Balearic Islands, José Reyes.

A row of children's t-shirts hung along the fence of the primary school playground has turned the CEIP Son Pisà into a heartbreaking image of protest this Friday. Each piece of clothing represents a child who has not entered class today. The action, organized by families at 9:00 AM —the usual start time of the school day—, is part of the strike they began on Tuesday to not bring their children to the school, in protest of the presence of Miquel Roldán, a teacher with a final ruling for harassment of a former minor student. The strike has massive support, and today 61% of students were absent, one point more than this Thursday.

A row of children's t-shirts hung along the primary school playground fence has turned CEIP Son Pisà into a striking image of protest this Friday. Each piece of clothing represents a child who has not entered class today. The action, organized by families at 9:00 AM — the usual start time of the school day — is part of the strike they began on Tuesday not to bring their children to the center, in protest of the presence of Miquel Roldán, a teacher with a final ruling for harassment of a minor ex-student. The stoppage has massive support, and today 61% of students were absent, one point more than this Thursday.

A new development of homes on Joan Bauzà street, in the Palman neighborhood of Pere Garau, has ignited debate among residents over sale prices. Most apartments exceed 330,000 euros before VAT, with amounts that can reach over 530,000 euros (including VAT), figures that many residents consider beyond the reach of the area's usual population (and which expel them from the neighborhood where they have grown up and want to live).

More than a hundred people gathered this Friday on the Born promenade in Palma, called by UGT, to protest against a state agreement in the commerce sector that, according to the union, could mean a reduction in salary and rights for thousands of workers in the Islands.

“It is not a cry of despair, we have time, but we cannot find an apartment to rent in Porreres and we do not want to have to move to another town”. The housing crisis in Mallorca is reaching Pla little by little and it has a face and eyes, and in Porreres there is an example. A single-parent family from Porreres, made up of a mother and daughter, has turned what should have been a conventional advertisement looking for a rental apartment into an original protest publication through which they have wanted to make visible the reality of many families and also young people who find themselves with an increasingly inaccessible real estate market throughout Mallorca, and Pla is no exception.

Ninth concert of the season for the Illes Balears Symphony Orchestra at the Auditorium of Ciutat, which began with the peculiar Concert for Birds and Orchestra, by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, under the direction of a conductor of enormous presence in every sense, the Norwegian Rune Bergmann. He was undoubtedly the one who turned the concert into a spectacle of dimensions that corresponded to his own. Just after the ornithological composition, the first major highlight of the program arrived, with pianist Olga Kern as the great protagonist, to perform the Piano and Orchestra Concerto in A minor op. 54, by Robert Schumann. The first movement began, with a very solid, somewhat rocky style, and a very firm pulse, from the decisive entry of the piano, with a martial and powerful succession of descending chords, to reach the polyhedral cadence of the finale, from where the coloratura of the composition increased, with as much precision as elegance. Her performance was raising the level and delicacy, as for example, with the Andantino grazioso, a delightful dialogue between the orchestra and the piano that, little by little, turned into a tender and subtle monologue of the solo instrument. Kern made clear her mastery and ability to suggest all this series of variations and styles that Schumann incorporated into the score, in a very novel way for its time. The soloist, once again, resumed the energetic tone of the beginning, in an impetuous third movement, when, all of a sudden, she established a delightful new dialogue, this time with the oboe, as a prelude to the exceptional final coda that can only be described as exceptional and which served the protagonist to receive the enthusiastic applause of the audience. As it should be and as everyone expected, there was an encore, first a Prelude, by Claude Debussy, which never disappoints or leaves one indifferent. Impeccable. And in response to the plea in the form of an ovation, another little gem, by Nikolai Myaskovsky, a piano arrangement by Joseph Horovitz.

After more than two years of work, and more than a decade since the disappearance of Palma Photo, Mallorca PhotoFest has been born, a festival promoted by the association Art Palma Contemporani that will fill, until next August, about thirty exhibition venues throughout the island with contemporary photography proposals. “The long-term objective is to turn it into a benchmark where we can reflect on images, where we can foster critical thinking through photography. 100 years ago it was an unquestionable source of authority and trust, and now it is used to distort reality. We think it is necessary to reflect on this, that images should also serve us to draw conclusions about the world we live in”. This is how Xavier Fiol, director of the festival, defines it, who, together with the general coordinator, Montserrat Torras, and with the advice of Xisco Bonnín and Horacio Fernández, has shaped a program that includes exhibitions, talks, guided tours, a reading club dedicated to photobooks, and a film series that will take place during May at the Teatre Sa Societat in Calvià.

"What a shame to be poor", one reader of romantasy tells another as she considers a hardcover edition with a colored spine of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros's bestselling saga. After a brief debate with her friend and several knowing glances, the book ended up in the bookseller's hands and the credit card did the rest. Transaction completed, happy reader. The scene took place in the space that one of the main bookstores has set up for Sant Jordi in Plaça d'Espanya in Palma. Like this one, hundreds, perhaps thousands, have been repeated this Book Day.

Women have played a key role in the history of antimilitarism. When men were obliged to go to war, mothers, wives, and sisters did not hesitate to mobilize to save their loved ones from certain death. It was during the Modern Age (15th-18th centuries) that the armies of European states became permanent and increasingly large. At that time, the Hispanic monarchy, following what was done in the rest of the continent, had three ways of supplying its troops: with mercenaries (professionals who fought in exchange for pay), with forced levies (generally from marginalized people, prisoners, and vagrants), and with the quintas.

The Palmesan Gonçal López Nadal, 73, is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). He feels indebted to the mastery of the Felanitx native Antoni Binimelis Sagrera. “The first time –he assures– I heard of him was in 1964, when I was 11 years old. It was through my uncle, Guillem Nadal Blanes, who was stationed as a diplomat in India. In a letter he told the family that he had met a Majorcan, a specialist in classical languages and a Spanish teacher in New Delhi. He said he was a rather peculiar person, a man of universal culture, and that he hadn't lost a hair, but, from his condition as a peasant”.

The Havana cemetery is full of tombs with very local surnames: Pujol, Roca, Moner, Ensenyat... They are the testimony of the Majorcans who in the 19th century left to 'make the Americas'. According to chronicles, in 1889 there were about 10,000 (4% of the population). Many from Andratx went to Cuba. Among them were the paternal and maternal grandparents of Rosa Calafat Vila, professor of Catalan Philology at the UIB. “In the eighties, during my youth – she says –, I dug into the oral memory of the municipality and I was pleasantly surprised. I discovered a large number of 'gloses' related to the Caribbean island”.

Few plants have accompanied humans throughout history as much as gourds. Present in cultures on every continent, they have been much more than food: they have served as containers, tools, musical instruments, and even life preservers. Currently, we associate them with gastronomic terms, as part of creams, in stews, pickles, and desserts.

My slaughtered animal hung from a scaffold. It had its belly open, a large empty cavity from which the gold that would be offered fried had been extracted. It seemed that its eyes had followed point by point the entire sequence of its dismemberment and had been horrified by it: the drained blood, the offal, further on the gut that was beginning to be limed to remove all dirt, the clean and lemoned intestines hanging from some reeds. A wild scene, an impossible puzzle to reassemble.

Is the empanada a pie? An empanada? It seems simple, but it isn't. Because when you try to define it, you understand that it's not just a dish: it's a world. On the Mediterranean islands —from the Balearics, with Mallorca and Menorca, to Sardinia— each place seems to know perfectly what an empanada is... until the discussion begins. From Palma to Maó, from Assemini, in southern Sardinia, to Cuglieri, in the province of Oristano, to Oschiri, in Gallura, each community defends theirs as the most authentic. And they are all right.

“Galilea was known in the early 16th century as the mola of Cortei, a quite revealing toponym”. Tomàs Vibot and Just Hernàndez make this clear in the book Son Cortei, Conques i Galilea, published in 2009 by the Puigpunyent Town Hall: the establishment process of this nucleus is “a slow process motivated by inheritance policies” that led around 1586 to the segregation of an old farmstead of Bartomeu Cortei and the creation of small plots for the new settlers of the area.

The route we present is a walk through part of the historic road network between Pollença and Lluc. An itinerary that starts from the Son Grua pine tree, a tree with its own name and a landmark in the territory, to climb up to the robust and monumental Muntanya fountain, following the old Lluc road (Ruta de Pedra en Sec/GR 221); while the descent follows the old road, the construction of which began in 1916. In between, between the old medieval road and the new road infrastructure of the early 20th century, numerous reconstructions of the old road to make it more passable, both for animals and for carts.

On this route, we explore a part of the natural heritage surrounding the Lluc sanctuary. We are in the municipality of Escorca, one of the most extensive and at the same time least populated in Mallorca. The island's highest and also most important and visited mountains are concentrated here: Puig Major de Son Torrella (1436 m), Maçanella (1365 m), Puig Tomir (1104 m), Tossals Verds (1099 m), Puig de l'Ofra (1091 m), and Puig Roig (1003 m), among many others. The repopulation church of Sant Pere d'Escorca and the Lluc sanctuary are the most important landmarks of the cultural landscape of the term. But, as a whole, from Andratx to Pollença, the Serra de Tramuntana should be understood as a mountain system of great geomorphological interest, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the category of cultural landscape. It is a complex calcareous relief, dominated by karst modeling, with strong contrasts between mountain and coast, and with an erosive dynamic marked by irregular water and Mediterranean processes.

What about the covered pavilion that has been due to be built for years around the Torre dels Enagistes sports area? What are the problems that mean a project so necessary for Manacor's sport still hasn't even had the land bought?

On this route we explore a part of the natural heritage that surrounds the sanctuary of Lluc. We are in the municipality of Escorca, one of the most extensive and at the same time least populated in Mallorca. It is home to the highest and also the most important and visited mountains on the island: Puig Major de Son Torrella (1436 m), Maçanella (1365 m), Puig Tomir (1104 m), Tossals Verds (1099 m), Puig de l’Ofra (1091 m) and Puig Roig (1003 m), among many others. The repopulation church of Sant Pere d’Escorca and the sanctuary of Lluc are the most important landmarks of the cultural landscape of the term. However, as a whole, from Andratx to Pollença, the Serra de Tramuntana must be understood as a mountain system of great geomorphological interest, declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in the category of cultural landscape. It is a complex limestone relief, dominated by karst modeling, with strong contrasts between mountain and coast, and with an erosive dynamic marked by irregular water and Mediterranean processes.

The following itinerary proposes the ascent to the moleta of Son Cabaspre, following a section of the GR 221 between Esporles and Valldemossa via the mola of Son Pacs. We cross lands and historical possessions such as Son Dameto and Son Cabaspre, which reveal the extensive and deep human footprint on the territory. A walk for the pace and the gaze to feel the aromas and smell the territory. The moleta of Son Cabaspre allows us to survey the hills and slopes surrounding Esporles and, also, to contemplate the mountains that make up the western sector of the Tramuntana mountain range-World Heritage. Consider that we have public transport to get us to the starting and ending point of our itinerary. The line 202 that connects Estellencs and Palma stops at the central promenade of Esporles. You can go to the website tib.org for any consultation of timetables and availability of the routes.

Dear Regi, I should be angry, envious, and resentful of you for many reasons. Your book Les calces al sol (La campana) and my Un cor de neu (La Magrana) were released together in September 2022, and yours, slowly but surely, succeeded, and mine, well, it didn't. And this is despite yours being the first book you published, not like me who has published a few. On top of that, you're quite a bit younger than me. And a good person. And talented and wonderful and hardworking and persistent. And stylish! According to the manual for a good follower of the patriarchal cliché, I should choke every time I read something about you. But the opposite happens to me.

Humanity returns to the Moon 50 years later. NASA's Artemis program, which made history this April by breaking the record for the furthest manned space voyage, responds to an openly declared objective by Donald Trump himself: “Get to the Moon before China”.

“Salvador Espriu Castelló, writer, single, sixty years old, a native of Santa Coloma de Farners [...]. He declares that he in no way wishes to be buried in the cemetery of Arenys de Mar. He further declares his express wish that his body be cremated, if the laws permit”. These are verbatim words, handwritten by Salvador Espriu in what is a document of last wishes, a draft of a will, written at some point between the summer of 1973 and that of 1974 – he was born on July 10, 1913 –, drafted in Spanish – the law did not provide for any other option – and addressed to his great friend and lawyer Josep Ferrer i Rius.

Imagina que neixes sent una noia rossa a l’assolellada Califòrnia. D’adolescent, mentre treballes de caixera, decideixes fer-te actriu. No coneixes ningú de la indústria del cinema, així que et presentes a un concurs de bellesa per cridar l’atenció d’algun agent. Guanyes un concurs. Un any després, surts a la televisió en anuncis de sabó i fent rols de rossa espectacular. 

Can we live with our dead present without them tormenting us, especially considering that some as significant as the older sister or father have committed suicide? This is one of the driving questions of A Truce That Is Not Peace, the new book by Miriam Toews (Steinbach, 1964), published in Catalan by Les Hores, translated by Octavi Gil Pujol. In the hands of many writers, the autobiographical material she unfolds would be mired in the swamp of traumas. The Canadian author, however, knows how to combine sadness and longing with a surprising sense of humor. She can just as easily rescue an anecdote from the Mennonite Christian community where she grew up as recall a funny family episode from the past – such as the robbery in Ecuador –, mention a book that has recently interested her, and draw the reader into her current reality: the author has had a small house built on the property where her mother, one of her daughters, her partner, and their two children live.

For Sant Jordi, there is life beyond the best-selling books, publishing phenomena, and circumstantial trends. You just need to take a stroll through a well-run bookstore to verify that the good health of the Catalan publishing sector lies in the explosive diversity of proposals and in the quality and demand of many of these proposals. We choose just ten that we believe would be worth reaching more readers.

Fantasy books, mystery books, dystopian stories, personal diaries, and traditional tales with block letters, cursive letters, or print letters. And sagas, many sagas. Students from Institut Escola Sant Felip Neri in Barcelona, aged 4 to 15, have recommended their favorite books to us, as well as those that once opened the door to the enjoyment of reading. These are their recommendations for this Sant Jordi.

Neither sardines nor anchovies. The most sold fish in our country is farmed salmon, which, for this reason, is gray and is dyed a range from pale orange to orange-red depending on the country where it is sold, because it is known that every land fights its war in colors. The popularity of salmon is probably explained because its nutritional benefits have been spread: as it is oily fish, it provides readily available omega-3. Sardines and anchovies from our ports also provide it. And you will say that salmon has no bones, and it is true, because they are removed with industrial machinery, and I counter-argue: the nutritional benefits of salmon, that is, the polyunsaturated fatty acids that regulate blood cholesterol levels and help reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, are only achieved with sardines, anchovies, and oily fish in general with a short lifespan. And with wild salmon. Farmed salmon is another story, and I will explain why.To begin with, in floating cages there is a large number of salmon with a relatively small volume of water, states marine biologist Anna Bozzano, and this fact leads to all sorts of disadvantages. First: medicines have to be used because they are all together and a disease would be easily acquired by all of them. Second: the excrement they form there is organic matter that ends up at the bottom of the sea and suffocates marine life: "There is no animal that can eat it, and that is why the seabed under salmon aquaculture cages are deserts." Fattened with soy feed

To continue, farmed salmon is fattened with feed, made from small caught fish, processed into meal and with soy. “Until a few years ago, to grow one kilogram of salmon, five kilograms of small fish were needed. With soy, it has been balanced to one kilogram of small fish per kilogram of aquaculture; the rest is done by soy”, says Bozzano, who warns that if the proportion of soy with which they make the feed is higher than what the fish can absorb, they get sick because their system is not designed to feed on it. In this fact, the data must be highlighted: small fish and soy are needed to feed aquaculture, and these foods create consequences in the entire system. The small fish used to fatten salmon can come from other areas where the cages are located, such as Africa or South America.And, to finish, let's talk about the color of salmon. Wild salmon eat shrimp that contain a natural pigment, astaxanthin, but there are no small shrimp in the feed, which is why farmed salmon have gray flesh, which the market would not accept if it were put up for sale. So they dye it at the source before putting it on the market. Depending on each country, a different Pantone color. In our country, orange; if you travel and find other shades, lighter, redder, remember that it depends on the final pigment they have given it because it is the color that is liked in that country. A detail: the pigment can be natural or synthetic, which is allowed, but in the latter case, the exact amount that is healthy for the human body is measured, informs marine biologist Anna Bozzano.Despite all this, salmon is the best-selling fish. In 2023, eight thousand tons were sold; in 2024, nine thousand. The second best-selling fish, monkfish, is six thousand tons behind. It is clear, then, the abundance of salmon, but perhaps there is a way to save it: in a growing world population, with an emptying sea, is it perhaps the fish that can provide us with animal protein? But if the sea runs out of small fish, will farmed salmon also not be able to be fed? Perhaps we should eat small local fish and not a distant one, farmed crowded and fed with fish caught on the other side of the world. It is the (dyed) fish that eats its tail.

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They had been open for three days and it was already packed like an egg. Furthermore, a very diverse audience of all ages. It's not surprising, since the restaurant Romo, located on Buenos Aires street, in Dreta de l'Eixample, is backed by the success that Jorge Sastre and Rafa Panatieri already had in their renowned pizzeria Sartoria Panatieiri. In this restaurant, which has been awarded and recognized by the pizza sector – even in Italy – a Neapolitan style of pizza is served. Now, at Romo, their bet is on Roman-style pizza.

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“Hello, my name is Montserrat, I'm from Plans de Cornet I'm eighty-three years old, and today I'm going to make you a wild boar stew”, she tells us, as she opens the farmhouse door for us. If we look in the Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear we find that singlar, also written singlà, appears “as a synonym for senglar" in Igualada, Calders, Centelles, Manresa, etc. Our wise woman is from Bages. She lives in a neat farmhouse, where geese, dogs, rabbits, and chickens also live, in addition, of course, to part of her family. Today she is accompanied by one of her granddaughters, from Manresa, who, smiling, tells us: “I'm her assistant, but she goes on her own!” It's true. Our wise woman is agile, she doesn't stop moving, lifting pots. She immediately cuts fuet (homemade) to offer it to us.

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