A compensation of 6,000 euros and avoiding prison time if he does not commit any crime during the next two years. This is the sentence that the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has imposed on a British tourist who raped a woman twice who had become unconscious after consuming cocaine and vodka. The defendant has acknowledged the facts and reached an agreement with the Public Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution that has allowed for the initial sentence request to be reduced from seven to two years.

The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival takes place on a contradiction that is difficult to avoid. For four days, books occupy one of the great epicenters of mass tourism and binge drinking in Mallorca. They do so hand in hand with the hotel chain Melià, a company that is an exponent of 'balearization,' the export of the intensive tourism model first implemented in the Archipelago and transferred all over the world.

When someone thinks about going to a literary festival, they don't imagine they could leave with a tattooed arm or shoulder. The unknown in the equation is isolated when you add FLEM to Magaluf: the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival, a festival that long ago stopped considering literature as an isolated discipline and has exposed it to coexistence with electronics, urban art, tattoos, podcasts, games, and even karaoke.

The sixth edition of the Expanded Literature Festival in Magaluf (FLEM) kicked off this Thursday by breaking a record, with 6,000 tickets reserved in just one hour, the event organizers reported. The official inauguration also marked the first presentation of the FLEM-Magaluf Novel Prize, which debuts this year with the aim of promoting emerging writers in the Spanish language, under 35 years of age, and which in its first call has been awarded to Raúl E. Asencio for Do Not Descend.

Reading a book on a toy surfboard in a wave pool at a hotel on one of the most overexploited beaches in Mallorca. This is how the sixth edition of the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival, the FLEM, is being promoted, which will take place from October 1st to 4th in one of the world's epicenters of excess tourism. The hook is clear: literature can also be fun, and the FLEM has come to provoke and break the schemes of classic festivals, against academicism and against solemnity.

A young woman accused a man this Wednesday of forcing her to perform oral sex on him in an apartment hotel in Magaluf after a night of partying. The events date back to the early hours of October 27, 2021, and were judged this Wednesday by the Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands. The Public Prosecutor's Office is requesting ten years in prison and 12,000 euros in compensation for the accused.

A 21-year-old man was seriously injured this morning after being stabbed in the chest in Magaluf, in the municipality of Calvià. Emergency services received the call around 5:15 a.m., according to the 061 service.

Celestí Alomar (Llubí, 1949) ponders the future of tourism from the Majorcan Col·lectiu Alternatives, previously he did so from the Administration. He looks at it from the Islands, which historically anticipate what will happen to the Spanish sector as a whole, and with the experience of having been Director General of Tourism Strategy for Felipe González and of having had a portfolio in the Pacte de Progrés that created the pioneering ecotax.

I spent my Erasmus year in London denying I was Italian and answering the same questions at the pub where I worked: no, I didn't understand what my Prime Minister was doing in the Azores photo; the euro had made everything more expensive for us (they nodded proudly); Aserejé was just the phonetic adaptation into English of a disco-rap song and – to their disappointment – it meant nothing; and no, I didn't frequent Magaluf. For the customers to whom I served pints and shots, pronouncing Magaluf lit up their faces. For me, it was just a place that was very far from all the nightlife areas of Palma and whose appeal was eating ecstasy pills on a Saturday night at BCM. I'd say I hadn't even set foot there. Therefore, I limited myself to nodding with a smile while returning their change in pounds from their Foster's or Carling. I didn't want to add another disappointment to that of the Ketchup, famous at the time at Tony Blair's level.

A two-year-old girl was seriously injured this Wednesday afternoon after suffering a drowning in the pool of a hotel in Magaluf, in the municipality of Calvià.

A fire declared this Sunday evening in a hotel in Magaluf, in the municipality of Calvià, forced the precautionary evacuation of the upper floors of the establishment. According to the Mallorca Firefighters, the fire caused no injuries and did not affect the rooms.

The Calvià Town Hall expects that the majority of residents of the Magaluf apartment block affected by the fire declared this Thursday will be able to return to their homes starting next Monday, once the technical inspections of the property have been completed. This was explained by the mayor of Calvià, Juan Antoni Amengual, during the minute of silence held this midday in memory of the two fatal victims of the incident. Amengual assured that the accommodation needs of the evacuated people are covered thanks to the collaboration of the hotel sector in the area.

Two people died this Thursday early in the morning in a fire that broke out at 5.23 am in a residential building in Magaluf, in the Mallorcan municipality of Calvià, where several people were also injured. The Civil Guard reported that the deceased are a 58-year-old man of Argentine nationality and a woman who has not yet been identified. They also added that they did not live together, but were in different homes at the time of the fire.

The mayor of Calvià has signed a municipal decree due to the 2026 Football World Cup, which will take place between June 11 and July 19. The document establishes a series of rules aimed at reconciling the development of leisure activities with safety, citizen coexistence, and the rest of residents and tourists.The text establishes an exceptional time regulation for broadcasting certain matches. According to the City Council, through a statement, if a match starts within the establishment's ordinary opening hours, it will not be necessary to stop the activity of the premises or the terrace at the usual closing time, thus avoiding clients being left without seeing the end. Establishments will be able to extend closing time up to 15 minutes after the end of the match, including extra time and penalty shootouts. It is important to note that this time exception will apply exclusively to matches played by the national teams of Spain, Germany, England, and Scotland, in addition to the semi-final matches, the final, and the third-place play-off.Conversely, if the match starts at or after the official closing time of the public establishment, it will not be able to keep its doors open and must strictly adhere to the time stipulated in the ordinary license.The decree consolidates a series of coexistence rules that were already implemented during Eurocopa 2024, an event that took place with complete normality in Calvià under these same guidelines: in terraces and outdoor areas, from midnight the audio emission must be completely suppressed, and the volume will be set to zero. Only the visual signal of the matches may be broadcast to ensure the rest of neighbors and tourists.Likewise, screens and televisions must always be oriented towards the inside of establishments. The measure aims to prevent public space crowds that could hinder the passage of pedestrians and road traffic.The Calvià Town Hall warns that non-compliance with the provisions of this decree, as well as with the applicable Municipal Ordinances, will be subject to sanction. Therefore, establishment owners are appealed to collaborate in preventing any disturbance to safety and coexistence.

The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM) has announced the first literary residency in the town, a program offering two ten-day creation grants for writers working in Catalan and English. The residences will take place at the Innside Calvià Beach hotel and include accommodation, travel, an economic endowment of 500 euros, and participation in the next edition of the festival. The deadline for submitting applications will be open until June 15, and applications must be sent through the form available on the event's website.the event's website.

The president and CEO of Meliá Hotels International, Gabriel Escarrer, has assured that he expects Magaluf to have "the best year in history" in 2026 and has highlighted the transformation of the area in recent years. "I can assure you, very cautiously, that everything seems to indicate that we will have a great tourist season and Magaluf will have the best year in history," he said this Wednesday at the inauguration ceremony of the second phase of the Gabriel Escarrer Julià promenade.

A sketch from the British comedy show 'Saturday Night Live UK', broadcast by the Sky channel, has gone viral on social media after satirizing the behavior of some United Kingdom tourists who travel to Spain to enjoy the sun, but without leaving the British environment.

The eight men accused of the gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in Magaluf in August 2023 admitted to the crime and accepted a combined sentence of 72 years and three months in prison. The plea agreement was finalized Monday morning before the trial was scheduled to take place in the Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands. The defendants—seven French nationals and one Swiss national—admitted that on August 14, 2023, they went to a hotel room in Magaluf where one of the victim's companions was staying. They admitted that, aware of the woman's unconscious state, they undressed her, sexually assaulted her, and raped her multiple times.

The demolition of the former Hotel Teix in Magaluf and the Hostal Colón in Peguera will begin this Friday, as part of the renewal of established tourist areas in Calvià. This was announced by the mayor of the municipality, Juan Antonio Amengual, this Wednesday at the World Travel Market in London during an event at the Balearic Islands stand. The mayor, the municipal government team, and the President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, among other authorities, will attend the start of the demolitions. With this initiative, as highlighted by the City Council, Calvià is advancing in the regeneration process of established areas and gaining spaces that will be for public use. "With these demolitions, we are fully entering the renewal of established areas of the municipality; these are the first demolitions carried out in Calvià in the 21st century," said Amengual, who explained that the objective is to recover land for public use. The purchase of the Hotel Teix in Magaluf was formalized by the Calvià Town Council on March 20th, following a private purchase agreement reached with its former owners at the beginning of February. The acquisition of the property, which had been closed for years, was financed with funds provided by the European Union's Next Generation Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, managed through the Government. This demolition follows that of the former Hostal Colón in Peguera, also acquired by the Town Council under the same conditions. Thus, the total investment allocated to the purchase and demolition of both establishments amounts to approximately 6 million euros. For the Town Council, the demolition is not only an urban planning operation, but also a "declaration of principles" regarding "commitment to a more people-friendly, livable, and sustainable city model, where the land serves the people, and not the other way around."