El general de la Guàrdia Civil de les Illes Balears, Alejandro Hernández Mosquera, que ha defensat les detencions de les dues joves de Santa Maria, va ser investigat en el cas de les tortures denunciades per Kepa Urra durant la seva estada al quarter d’Intxaurrondo entre els anys 1990 i 1993.

One of the more than twenty people who were injuries during the police charges with which the demonstration against tourist saturation on Sunday in Palma ended is still hospitalized. The affected parties are now considering the possibility of filing a collective complaint against the National Police officers who participated in the operation. This was announced this Tuesday by one of the spokespersons for the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida, Jaume Pujol, during the rally that brought together nearly half a thousand people in front of the government delegation to demand the resignation of the delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez.

Approximately 400 people have demanded this Tuesday the resignation of the Spanish government delegate, Alfonso Rodríguez, and of the police officials for the charges by the National Police against participants of the anti-saturation demonstration on July 26. The protest took place in front of the state government delegation, which the Police had secured by land and air: four National Police vans, a dozen officers and civil guards at the door monitored the demonstrators, in addition to the images captured by a helicopter and a drone that flew over the area during the two hours that the protest lasted, peaceful and civic at all times.

L’Atlàntida Film Fest arriba a la setzena edició amb una trajectòria intensa, que l’ha duit de ser una experiència pionera i insòlita, una mostra cinematogràfica en línia, a convertir-se en una de les trobades de referència a l’Estat: primera posició entre els festivals que es duen a terme a l’estiu, segon més ben puntuat entre tots els certàmens, segons dades del Ministeri de Cultura. Com tot festival de cinema rellevant, un bon grapat d’estrelles s’han passejat per les seves inauguracions i cloendes: Liv Ullmann, Michael Douglas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Fiennes, Britt Ekland… Enguany, Gael García Bernal, Javier i Carlos Bardem, Fernando Trueba, Jaime Chávarri, Rodrigo Sorogoyen i l’actriu mallorquina Victoria Luengo, entre d’altres.

La decisió de la Conselleria d'Educació sobre quins docents interins mantenen les vacants de fins a tres anys i quins les perden ha obert un nou conflicte entre el departament i diversos centres educatius. El sindicat SIAU, que dona suport als professors afectats, denuncia que hi ha "incoherències" en l'aplicació del sistema i assegura que diversos equips directius han emès certificats oficials que contradiuen les resolucions d'Educació. Segons aquests documents, algunes places haurien estat retirades tot i continuar existint en les mateixes condicions, mentre que en altres casos s'hauria obligat una docent a mantenir una plaça que ja no coincideix amb les necessitats de la que ocupava.

There is an image that better than any other summarizes what happened on Sunday: a massive and profoundly civic demonstration that ends with people injured by a violent police action. The question is inevitable: who had an interest in the narrative ceasing to be about mass tourism and becoming about public order?

One of the most emblematic bars of traditional Mallorcan cuisine says goodbye. Ca'n Biel Felip has announced the definitive closure of the restaurant, in a publication on social networks, after more than thirty years of trajectory, a decision that the establishment itself admits "is never easy". The venue, recognized this year with the award for the best classic bar in the Balearic Islands, is now negotiating a possible succession so that the business can continue with a new stage. According to reports, the main reason for the closure is the lack of generational succession.

What is the National Police in Mallorca afraid of? Of thousands of peaceful and organized citizens? Of people who suffer for the land and for the future of their children? Of seeing them wave the four bars and hear them demonstrate in Catalan? What interests does this police force protect when it raises its batons against demonstrators? Will the head of the police operation be dismissed, even if only for incompetence?

The demonstration that this Sunday marched through the center of Palma ended with moments of tension and charges by the National Police at the entrances to Les Voltes, after more than two hours of mobilization without incidents. Several people were injured by baton blows during the police intervention, which occurred when hundreds of demonstrators demanded to be able to access the final point of the route, where the manifesto was being read.

Demonstrations are not only held in the street. They also contend with the aftermath, when a media and political narrative is imposed about what happened. And, after the police charges of 26-J, the narrative of tourist saturation has been sidelined in the media by another debate much more comfortable for Marga Prohens' Government. It is important not to lose focus, because the president is one of the main people responsible for responding to the problems that the tourism model generates in the daily lives of the citizens of the Balearic Islands. The day after one of the most massive protests ever seen in the Islands, Prohens has not felt the need to face the situation, nor to give explanations about the lack of management, nor to confront her unfulfilled promises. The president has spoken about the charges, has demanded explanations from the Spanish government delegate, Alfonso Rodríguez, and has remarked that she respects the right to demonstrate, as if that were not a given.

Nearly 150 teachers and ANPE union representatives have gathered this Tuesday at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and the territorial delegations of Menorca and Ibiza to demand the full recovery of extraordinary payments and the implementation of a difficult coverage supplement for teachers in Mallorca. According to the union, which called for the protest, around a hundred teachers participated in the gathering in Mallorca, while about thirty attended in Menorca and fifteen in Ibiza.

The Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, is the member of the Government with the highest expenditure on official travel among the ministries of the Executive during the year 2026. According to the documentation published on the Transparency Portal, his department had allocated 11,267.49 euros to travel until May 21, the highest figure of the Executive if only the eleven ministries are taken into account. In total, these departments accumulate an expenditure of 45,340.81 euros. If the Presidency is also included, the total amounts to 60,383.58 euros, as the president, Marga Prohens, is the one who registers the highest individual item, with 15,042.77 euros allocated to official travel until June 25.

The Government has asked hotels this Tuesday to encourage clients to watch the solar eclipse on August 12 from their accommodations and to avoid private vehicle travel. The request is part of the planned operation to reduce mobility during the afternoon. As previously communicated, car access to the Serra de Tramuntana will also be restricted, with exceptions for residents, workers, and people staying or with reservations in establishments in the area.

The Almudaina Palace will reopen this Wednesday, July 29, after a comprehensive renovation of 2.57 million euros that transforms the visit to the monument and incorporates spaces that were previously closed to the public. To inaugurate the new route, admission will be free for three days, from July 29 to 31, until its capacity is reached.

The Government and the Consell de Mallorca have launched the implementation of shared electronic health records in residences, both public and private, with the aim that residents' information can be consulted by both healthcare professionals and residential center staff.

Seeing how the environment we feel is ours degrades without having left it can provoke a particular form of longing: grief for a home we still inhabit, but no longer recognize. This is what is known as solastalgia and it is the starting point of the work with which the French Egyptian artist Chirine El Ansary has won the second international creation and artistic residency scholarship from the Llull Laboratory.

Recovering desire is a common concern for many couples at some point in the relationship. And it's completely natural: no one has explained to us that sexual desire is not constant, but rather something that also needs to be cared for and worked on.

Born in Montuïri in 1944, Antònia Verger Jaume Sopeta is one of those anonymous but key figures in the local history of Pla de Mallorca and, in this case, Montuïri. Antònia Verger was for many years the lady of the Puig or of Cas Carboner, later. Without realizing it, she was a leader, a reference for other women who in the last quarter of the last century too often did not escape household chores. Verger began like this, not in vain when she is asked about her studies, she explains that she managed to take exams at the Institute of Felanitx, but, "the boys continued their studies and the girls, as was usual at that time, ended up doing household chores or as seamstresses". It was at the beginning of the seventies – and not without difficulties, as you will see in the interview – that she embarked, together with her husband, Biel Bennàssar Mayol Carboner, on the adventure of managing the bar and restaurant of Puig de Sant Miquel. In this conversation, Verger reviews from the beginning the success of her cuisine to the tensions and the social transformation that, without knowing it, it represented for the women of the town.

Saturday saw one of the great shows of theinfluencer Ibai Llanos. The evening of the year is an amateur boxing gala that is broadcast via Twitch and YouTube for more than eight hours. A grotesque spectacle where a selection of content creators face each other in boxing matches after months of training and fake rivalries. Digital celebrities like Plex, TheGrefg, Tati, IlloJuan, Clersss, Roro or Edu Aguirre (the latter, reporter for"The Beach Bar) face each other despite their evident lack of talent in this discipline. The evening was held at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville in front of about eighty thousand spectators who attended the party with unprecedented fervor. Huge jumbotrons and noise amplified by large speakers overstimulated the audience. Núria Marín and Javi Hoyos introduced the event. Between fights, Bad Gyal, Juanes, Anuel AA, or Lucho RK and La Pantera performed. The "bread dipped in oil" boxers entered the ring with a triumphant entrance with choreography. Plex entered as if he were a charioteer, on a winged cardboard chariot and music from Gladiator.

T omeu Penya, 77, is speaking candidly to ARA Balears: “I want my current state of mind to be very clear. I am very sad. As a young man, I would never have imagined that Mallorca's future would be like it is now, an island full of cement and tourists, with saturated roads and residents who cannot access housing. For this summer's concerts, I am considering singing ‘Trenc’ again, which four decades ago I dedicated to the emblematic beach of Campos that now, unfortunately, is once again threatened”. ‘Trenc’ was the debut of the country singer from Vilafranca as an environmental activist at 35 years old. It is one of the most notable songs from his third album Coverbos (1984).

The delegate of the Spanish government in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has distanced himself from the police action at the demonstration against tourist saturation, which he described as "disproportionate" in relation to the risk of a protest marked by "exemplary civic behavior". "Police charges depend on the "in situ operation, they are not decided by this delegate. The use of violence did not adjust to the risk," he stated this Monday, after the organizers of the protest and MÉS per Mallorca called for his resignation.

The Palma City Council has enabled an accreditation system for access to Playa de Palma on the day of the eclipse (August 12), for vehicles of residents and workers and clients of establishments in the area. From 12 noon, the roundabouts and accesses to Playa de Palma will be closed to the general public: only residents with a parking space, workers, public transport, taxis, Uber, and buses responsible for transferring clients from the hotel to the airport will be able to access.

The Federation of Hotel Employers of Mallorca (FEHM) has called this Monday to "act" and "leave polarization behind" after Sunday's massive demonstration against tourist overcrowding. The entity's executive vice-president, María José Aguiló, has assured that the sector shares the social concerns expressed by protesters during the demonstration, but has warned that the debate about the future of the Islands "should not be reduced solely to tourist degrowth".

Marga Prohens has avoided commenting on the National Police charges against the protesters. The president assures that she cannot determine if it was a "disproportionate" action, because she "does not know the circumstances under which it occurred" and also does not know "the orders they had received".

The US President, Donald Trump, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have positively assessed this Tuesday's meeting at the White House. Both sides have avoided making any further comments on the closed-door meeting at a time when their relationship has been visibly affected by discrepancies over the war in Iran. The entrenchment of the conflict, which has already lasted five months, has only intensified friction.

Twenty-six years after Alberto Fujimori's resignation by fax, the surname that dominated Peruvian politics during the nineties returns to the Government Palace of Peru. This time it is the turn of Keiko Fujimori, the eldest daughter of El Chino, who this Tuesday takes office as president after having prevailed by a margin of only 50,000 votes to the progressive candidate Roberto Sánchez.

Ukraine has attacked an export terminal on the Black Sea with drones, in the Russian region of Rostov, in a new offensive against targets inside Russia. According to Moscow authorities, two people have died and five more have been injured as a result of the impact of the unmanned devices.

No other monarch has been so mythologized, idealized, and glorified as James I the Conqueror –well, perhaps the emeritus king, in his good times–: knight king, warrior, valiant, sensible, wise, generous, good Christian... Of course, of all this, half of half, and more in reference to women, whom he used and abandoned when they no longer served his interests. We recall the private life of James I as the 750th anniversary of his death, in 1276, is being commemorated – on July 27th.

With her face hidden behind a skull mask and dressed as a peasant woman, Madò Farta began to make noise —despite being a mute figure shrouded in mystery— on social media in June of this year. Since then, this figure, halfway between a bogart and a feminist water spirit, has appeared both alone and supporting other calls, in most —if not all— of the protests against tourist overcrowding convened throughout Mallorca.

A setting, a laptop with a webcam, and an hour of live chat with random people. With these ingredients and the premise of adapting the dramaturgy and choreography based on the conversations, Lluís Garau (La Torre, 1997) created The Meat in 2022, a performance interpreted entirely by him. His obsessions – the internet and identity shaped by algorithms – have led him to this “painful” process of stepping into the shoes of a cybersex addict. After receiving accolades such as the Oscar Wilde Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival, he turned The Meat in film, to go beyond the cybercruising. Directed by Joan Porcel, this thriller documentary has just won two Silver Biznagas in Malaga. It will be screened for the first time in Mallorca at the Atlàntida Film Festival.

The Maó monolith, erected in 1939 and located in the Plaça de l'Esplanada, has been included in the Catalogue of symbols and elements contrary to democratic memory. This was announced by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres. The Technical Commission of Experts has also decided to include in the catalogue the pyramid of the Italians (Burgos) and the lintel of Baños de Ebro (Aàlaba).

Palma will once again experience this Sunday, July 26, a new demonstration against tourist overcrowding. The mobilization, called by the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida (Less Tourism, More Life) with the slogan 'Mallorca at its limit', will begin at 7 p.m. in Plaça d’Espanya and will tour several of the main streets in the center of Palma.

The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited King Felipe VI to the commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the conquest of Mallorca by Jaume I, which will take place in 2029. The monarch has held meetings with the main authorities of the Balearic Islands this Friday at the Almudaina Palace in Palma. As explained in statements to the media, the mayor took advantage of the meeting to extend the invitation to the monarch. "He is also the King of Mallorca," he justified.

The general of the Civil Guard of the Balearic Islands, Alejandro Hernández Mosquera, who has defended the arrests of the two young women from Santa Maria, was investigated in the case of torture reported by Kepa Urra during his stay at the Intxaurrondo barracks between 1990 and 1993.

In 2017, Blanca and Òscar set off with two bicycles to travel the world. They cycled to Athens, where they took a flight towards Cape Town. In South Africa, the second part of the adventure began: crossing the African continent by bicycle. "At the end of this trip, we had been cycling for a year and a half, living with the bare minimum, and I started to need a stable place that was a home, but at the same time I wanted to keep traveling, and the only possibility I saw was to convert a van," explains Blanca. With Òscar, they have Vivirenruta, an Instagram profile and a blog where they share their day-to-day life, which since 2017 has been based on traveling around the world, living a nomadic life.

Who would eat a stew in summer? As soon as we write and pronounce its name, we already sweat. However, cold soups are the dish of the season: subtle, refreshing, and they have the ability to make use of ingredient scraps left in the kitchen from other prepared dishes. Soups are a sustainable resource: you have a piece of leek, an onion, and a pear, you help it with mineral water and a touch of perfume to enhance the flavors, and you have one ready to eat with a spoon. In this regard, chef Carme Ruscalleda proposes cooking four traditional soups, classics from local and international cuisine that will always be current and that, in turn, allow for personal experimentation, so that each person can finish them with their personal touch.

The decision of the Department of Education regarding which interim teachers keep vacancies of up to three years and which ones lose them has opened a new conflict between the department and various educational centers. The SIAU union, which supports the affected teachers, denounces that there are "inconsistencies" in the application of the system and assures that several management teams have issued official certificates that contradict the resolutions of Education. According to these documents, some positions would have been withdrawn despite continuing to exist under the same conditions, while in other cases a teacher would have been forced to keep a position that no longer matches the needs of the one she occupied.

When Mari Carmen starts her shift at the supermarket first thing in the morning, she knows her five-year-old son Enzo, who has autism, is in good hands. At 7:00 AM, he is already at the early care program of thesummer school from Algar, where a counselor accompanies her specifically throughout the day. "If there were no summer schools, I would have no alternatives. I would have to work only in the afternoon or evening, because I cannot stop working," she explains. "The children are much better here than with their grandparents. They do activities, they continue learning, and they are among other children. The children are ours, not the grandparents'," she explains.

The Independent, Autonomous and United Union (SIAU) has reported alleged irregularities this Monday in the main process of awarding positions to interim teaching civil servants. The union assures that some applicants would have known their destination days before the Ministry of Education officially published the awards, a situation it considers contrary to the principles of equality and transparency that should govern this procedure.

The president of the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB), Carmen Planas, assured this Wednesday that in the Islands "one cannot grow indefinitely", and appealed to the Government's management to control tourist flows. The president of the CAEB made these statements accompanied by the vice-presidents and representatives of the main associations integrated into the employers' association to read a manifesto on the tourist and economic model.

Eroski sold a total of 69 million euros in local products in the Balearic Islands during 2025, a figure that consolidates the weight of proximity foods within the supermarket chain's offering. The data was released this Tuesday in Campos, during the presentation of a new edition of the 'Productes de Sa Nostra Terra' campaign, with which the company aims to give visibility to producers from the Islands.

The Director General of Economy and Statistics, Catalina Barceló, considers that productivity is one of the main problems of the Balearic economy. She provides some data in conversation with ARA Balears, in which she warns that despite economic indicators indicating growth, the Islands have lost competitive strength in recent years.

The Balearic left must be a prodigious political force. It has been in opposition for more than three years and still manages to collapse roads, increase housing costs, saturate beaches, and fill the airport. There are governments that barely leave a legacy. The Pact, on the other hand, seems to have discovered the secret of political immortality.

The Atlàntida Film Fest reaches its sixteenth edition with an intense trajectory, which has taken it from being a pioneering and unusual experience, an online film showcase, to becoming one of the benchmark events in the country: first position among festivals held in the summer, second best-rated among all events, according to data from the Ministry of Culture. Like any relevant film festival, a good number of stars have walked through its openings and closings: Liv Ullmann, Michael Douglas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Fiennes, Britt Ekland… This year, Gael García Bernal, Javier and Carlos Bardem, Fernando Trueba, Jaime Chávarri, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and the Mallorcan actress Victoria Luengo, among others.

Another Mobo chronicler commented on Friday at certain early morning hours about the fear of falling into mass clichés to explain this farewell. Frankly, I would never write (and the other chronicler wouldn't either, I'd say) that "you don't know what you have until you lose it." It is ungrateful and unconscious. And we are not like that: we knew what we were losing in 2013 when Antònia Font announced a retirement; we know that, after Mobo, there will be a void for alternative music, that a space for closeness and recognition (identification?) will be missing; we know what we will lose if we continue living on mass tourism, wild and bare with everyday life, and since we know it, this Sunday afternoon we will be in Palma at the demonstration against tourist overcrowding, in favor of a dignified life.

Saturday evening. The end of 10 years of Mobofest is approaching. Around 11:30 PM, practically everyone was heading towards the main stage to accompany the "group of our lives," they said, the group "that changed everything for music in Mallorca and in Catalan," it was commented. Yesterday more than ever, the public could not miss it.

They didn't know it would be the beginning of a war that would last three years. It was supposed to be a coup d'état, supposedly to save Spain from a supposed communist revolution. Not everyone was fascist either, even though they were generally called that. The fact is that elements of the army, of a very minority Falange and of the right, also the Carlists, prepared in Mallorca – not very discreetly – that revolt against the legitimate authority of the II Republic, which broke out in July 1936, 90 years ago.

A few kilometers from the beaches and while we see planes passing every minute overhead, there exists a Mallorca that works in another dimension. It is the Pla. We don't want to say it or shout it from the rooftops either, but we do collect it for you, the people from here, from the land, who live with this same heartbeat. Thus, in the very heart of the Pla, at any point on the road from the field of Pina to Lloret de Vistalegre, there are those who carry the chimera of the old and giant race that Pere Capellà wrote and that Biel Majoral sings.

In the Mallorca of late Francoism, the revolution began in La Calatrava, a small neighborhood of Palma located between the cathedral and the Baluard del Príncep. Antoni Rotger Martínez was its alma mater. “I no longer recognize – he laments at 80 years old – the streets where I grew up and played with other children. There are tourists everywhere and, because of gentrification, many of my former comrades in struggle have had to leave. This was a rundown, working-class neighborhood, and now it is prey to the real estate speculation that the entire island suffers from”. In 1975, this man from Calatrava, of the 'pedra picada' style, was 32 years old and, with Franco agonizing, he already led the neighborhood mobilization against the construction of a large parking lot for tourist coaches in front of the Cathedral. The cry of protest was ‘Park YES, parking NO’. Due to that pressure, in May 1976 the City Council rectified and gave way to a competition of ideas for the design of the current Parc de la Mar, which was inaugurated in 1984.

They had installed the perch in the kitchen. The feathered ducks swayed there, hanging from a hook. A macabre curtain from which the animals had just dripped the last drops of blood. The scorched skin gave off a metallic and penetrating smell that mixed with the scalded feathers. Those powerful animals that organized the coop with their scandalous comings and goings looked like others, stripped and sad, staring at you from that small head with cloudy eyes.

The week ahead, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will start the pain caused by Zoo's separation by listening to Malifeta, the project of the guitarist of the Valencians, Arnau Giménez, and Mireia Matoses (from Pupil·les). After a time publishing songs created during the pandemic, in which they both lived together and composed, their first album has just been released, Mitologia, a compilation of songs they have been making for the last three years and which are now seeing the light. Ideal for missing Panxo's band and company less, because here there is also rap and love for the beats.

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The dining hall of CEIP Pare Bartomeu Pou in Algaida is, since last June and forevermore, Can Moncho. It is in recognition of José Ramon Gómez Lorenzo (Pedrayo, 1962) who from 1988 until this year has been the cook at the public school in the municipality. At times and amidst nostalgic memories, he explains very valid and practical tricks and recipes for any family trying to get the little ones at home to eat everything. Moncho didn't want any farewell party, but after almost 40 years of service, the event was completely inevitable.

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Les Alqueries is a beautiful hamlet in the municipality of Santa Eugènia, located on the northeast side of the village and crossed by an old transhumance route, the Camí de Muntanya. From the Middle Ages until the early 20th century, the mountain paths allowed the passage of the herds from the large estates that spent the summer in the mountains (estivada) and the winter in the lands of the Pla and Migjorn (hivernada) of Mallorca.

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Located in the Fontanelles massif, Puig de la Pega, 403 m high, is the point where the villages of Sant Rafel de sa Creu, Sant Jordi de ses Salines, and Sant Josep de sa Talaia meet; at its summit there is a geodetic vertex where previously there had been a boundary marker placed at the end of the 18th century that marked the division between the quartons of Portmany, Algarb, and Alhaueth; for which reason it is also known as Puig del Merlet. This peak and the spring of the same name were admired and described by Archduke Louis Salvador of Austria on an excursion that took him from Vila to Santa Agnès de Corona.

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Our objective is the Torre de la Gavina, one of the five towers built in Formentera during the 18th century for the surveillance and defense of its fragile coastline. The other constructions are the Torre de la Guardiola, on the island of Espalmador, the Torre de Punta Prima, next to Es Pujols, the Torre del Pi del Català, on Migjorn beach, and the Torre del Garroveret, near Cap de Barbaria. The route we have traced circumvents the Estany del Peix, a large natural pond open to the sea by La Boca, which was the island's first major fishing and salt port. Indeed, the venda de Porto-salè takes its name from the Portus salarius, a salt exploitation from Roman times. An extraordinary place where natural and heritage values have built a powerful and extensive cultural landscape. We will also visit the public estate of Can Marroig, one of the emblematic corners of the Ses Salines de Eivissa i Formentera Natural Park. For inquiries about the island's public transport, we can consult the website busformetera.com, where we will find all the information about routes and timetables.

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If we adhere to the definition given by the dictionary, a viewpoint is a lofty place from which one can look and see a large expanse of terrain. This is the case for the main objective of our route: an itinerary around Esporles and the hermitage of Maristel·la through old bridle paths, charcoal burner huts, and a long and extensive road and hydraulic infrastructure for the exploitation of mountain forests, which should lead us to the 'secret' viewpoints of Son Ferrà. Popularly attributed to the neighboring estate of Son Poquet, these two historical spaces are located a few meters from the wall that marks the division between both properties. The confusion arises because it is from these points that the aforementioned estate houses are best glimpsed. The walk will also take us through the hermitage of Maristel·la and the viewpoint of Cor de Jesús, a heritage of a recent and well-documented history of the 'contemplative' life of Esporles. If we want to use public transport to approach the start of our walk, the L-202 (Estellencs-Palma) is the best option. On the website tib.org, you will find all the necessary information about schedules and availability of the line.

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The Mallorcan forward Papa Ababacar Bava Niang Miller, 22 years old and 2.11 meters tall, has been chosen number 36 by the Los Angeles Clippers in the draft of the American professional basketball league, the NBA.

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Our objective is the Artrutx watchtower (17th century) from the beaches of Son Saura. To begin with, a clarification, because we must not confuse the starting point of this route with the Son Saura sandbank, north of the municipality of Mercadal, to the right of the Fornells watchtower, also owned by the Comte de Torre-Saura Foundation – José María de Olives i Ponsich. In addition to the walk, we propose a dip in Cala en Turqueta before starting the return journey.

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The so-called society post (post-Fordist, post-industrial, postmodern, post-analog and, also, post-COVID) in which we live, confronts us as individuals continuously with ambiguity, the new defining substance of the character of urban life in the 21st century.

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The week ahead, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will finish McCartney: the hunt for the lost bass, about the mysterious disappearance and recovery of Paul McCartney's first bass, a Höfner 500/1 bought in Hamburg in 1961 for only 30 pounds. This marvel sounded on the original recordings of Love me do, she loves you and the early Beatles classics. A road movie musical about the greatest pop group of all time.

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There are people who have the talent to make you feel expected. Jordi is one of them. It's not just a way of serving tables or learned cordiality; it's also a way of looking, listening, and always finding the right word. In his restaurant, hospitality is not a gesture: it's a way of understanding life. That's why, when you cross the door of Can Facundo, you feel like you've been there before, even if it's your first time.

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It is hard to find someone who conveys as much passion when they speak as Irene Cordón. When she explains everything she has experienced in Egypt, the interlocutor needs to go there. "When I am in a special place, I cry," she says, recalling a trip to Ethiopia to visit the sources of the Nile. She has also cried in Egyptian burial chambers and when visiting the room where Alexander the Great died in Babylon. She cries when she arrives at places where history has been written. Her life has been like this for years, although for a good period of time it seemed it would be quite different.

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If summer is "the promise that life can begin again", as Francis Scott Fitzgerald assured, a good way to accompany this restart can be reading. The good health of the Catalan publishing sector makes it possible for us to undertake a multitude of journeys – geographical and temporal – without leaving home. We select ten intrepid books that have arrived in Catalan bookstores in recent months.

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A year and a half after Anagrama "indefinitely suspended" the publication ofEl odio,, in which Luisgé Martín (Madrid, 1962) collected the letters he exchanged with José Bretón, who is serving a prison sentence for the murder of his two children, the Madrid-born author has announced the publication of a new book with Altamarea in which he will give his version of events and which will arrive in bookstores on September 30.

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The title, Visions de la Palestina. Notes d’un pelegrinatge, by Miquel Costa i Llobera (Pollença, 1854-Palma, 1922), suggests a narrative travel diary written in prose, but it is a collection of autonomous poems linked by theme (different biblical episodes from the Old and New Testaments, the history of the Jewish people), the setting (the landscapes, the arid and venerable light and atmosphere of the Middle East) and the formal choice (the Hebrew verse), a very long Hebrew verse, which various scholars have mistakenly considered prose. The inspiration for the book was a cruise through the Mediterranean that Costa took in 1907, which took him to Rome, Greece, the Holy Land, and Egypt.Although Visions de la Palestina is not as well-known or central as Costa's two canonical titles, Poesies (1885, 1907) and Horacianes (1906), it is a valuable and important work, in which the poet demonstrates his majestic command of the language and his versatile formal virtuosity. The agile magnificence and imposing grace with which Costa, like Verdaguer, poeticizes matters both human and divine, the sacred and the profane, underscores his condition as a highly cultured and inspired priest-poet. It is for all these reasons that it is very good news that now, fifty-five years after it was last reissued as an independent book, the Lleonard Muntaner publishing house has produced a new edition, complete and impeccable, with paratexts (preface, notes, letters) of all kinds and origins. The critical edition, edited by Carles Cabrera Villalonga, is headed by a preliminary study by Gabriel de la S. T. Sampol which is so good that it not only exhaustively explains and contextualizes the work it presents but even functions as a partial but detailed and in-depth introduction to the overall costalloberiana work.Sampol, poet and translator, leaves nothing aside. He explains the circumstances of the work's writing; he reasons the why of the literary genre –lyrical poetry, not diariestism– and the why of the title –they are literal visions and also a vision of spiritual transport–; he points out the crucial fact that, with this book, Costa completed his cultivation of “the three formal possibilities” that he had mentioned a few years earlier in a conference at the Ateneu Barcelonès (classical, modern poetry and Hebrew versicle); he lists the main thematic axes of the poems (landscape, sentiment, spirituality and metaliterature); he unravels the rhetorical architecture and the most common rhetorical resources of the Hebrew versicle and Costa's adaptation of it, and indicates the scarce following that Catalan poetry has made of it later... What I said before: a very complete preliminary study. Meticulous and substantial erudition.It is evident, in any case, that most of the poems in Visions de la Palestina do not reach the category of Costa's best poetry. There is more deliberation and painstaking craft here than inspiration and grace, the rhythm flows with a somewhat affected and hesitant musicality, and the profusion of geographical and biblical references becomes burdensome. There are also, however, powerful poems, such as Llatzèria and Jerusalem, where we find, among others, these grandiloquent and inflamed verses: “Oh city of glory and terror!, your fate can only be explained by Calvary: the true Ark of your sanctification is this Sepulchre where Death was conquered”. A little-known but important book by one of the fathers of modern Catalan poetry.

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Mayonnaise, the Minorcan emulsion that the French have claimed to invent for years, is easy to prepare at home: it is made with olive oil, egg, lemon, and a pinch of salt. Current nutrition views it favorably because it is considered that mayonnaise provides the body with healthy fats and a small amount of protein from the egg. The problem, as everyone knows, is that "it is sensitive to microbiological contamination". "Raw eggs can contain bacteria such as salmonella," state dietitians-nutritionists Anna Costa and Anna Grífols. And all this is aggravated in the summer, with high temperatures. So, what do we do? If we want to eat a Russian salad with mayonnaise, how do we go about it? There are a thousand and one jars on the supermarket shelves; are they good?“Paradoxically, from a microbiological point of view industrial mayonnaise is usually much safer than homemade,” states Anna Grífols. The industry uses pasteurized eggs, the sauce undergoes strict acidity controls and also production processes that minimize the risk of salmonellosis. However, industrial mayonnaise is made up of ingredients that we would not use at home: refined sunflower oil (at home we would use olive oil), sugars, and additives. “There are industrial mayonnaises that even incorporate oils of poorer nutritional quality, or quite a few technological ingredients,” points out Grífols.The industrial, more than four ingredients

If we take a jar of industrial mayonnaise, we will see that the list of ingredients is more extensive than the four we have mentioned. Placed in order according to quantity, we will find refined sunflower oil, water, pasteurized egg yolk, lemon juice or vinegar, sugar, spices, salt, and stabilizers such as xanthan gum. It is an industrial product, therefore, that imitates a simple preparation, and is safe because the egg is pasteurized. But be careful, "because it is safe coming out of the factory but when we open it and, therefore, air enters, it must be consumed quickly and kept cold, because microorganisms can also enter that spoil it," points out the dietitian-nutritionist Anna Costa.So, the paradox of industrial mayonnaise is that it assures us of food safety parameters but we lose many others in flavor and tradition, to the point where a simple recipe of four ingredients becomes an ultra-processed food. At this point, we recommend you make it at home with all precautions and eat it immediately. We advise you to use fresh eggs, with intact shells. Do not wash them, as the bacteria on the eggshells could penetrate inside. Wash your hands and also the tools with which you will prepare the mayonnaise. Add lemon or vinegar, as both act as acidifiers. Prepare a small quantity; basically, what you will eat. If, even so, you have leftovers, store it immediately in the refrigerator between 2 and 4 degrees. Do not keep it at room temperature. And eat it by the next day at the latest, no later than that.

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I interview the chef Santi Colominas (Argentona, 1973) on a summer morning, a few hours before the first lunch shift starts, at 1 p.m. The restaurant Toc al Mar celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year since it opened in a small fisherman's house during an economic crisis. Santi had spent summers in Tamariu, and when he was offered the proposal, he accepted. For the first three years, he combined Toc al Mar with the restaurant Toc de Barcelona, which was located on Girona street. They were very intense years, with two young children he had together with the head of service and partner, Sandra Baliarda (1972, Badalona). Today, their children have already confessed that they like and are enthusiastic about the hospitality world. They have the succession secured.

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Joan Pera (Mataró, 1948) has one of the most recognizable and beloved voices in Catalonia. Sixty years on stage and a long history of memorable characters and voice acting do not prevent him from assuring, with laughter, that he is not "a very good actor." A defender of authenticity, in conversation, on stage, and at the table, the actor sees in wine a magic similar to that which he sees in theater.Where is this magic found?

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