L’Auba, the property of the Majorcan painter and sculptor Joan Riera Ferrari, is back on sale. It is offered at a reduced price and with the possibility of being acquired "with all the author's memories and furniture", according to the note accompanying the real estate advertisement, which sets the price at 750,000 euros, 16% less than what was previously asked. The property, with 670 square meters built, six bedrooms and parking, is located near the Bandrís road, the slaughterhouse, and the municipal treatment plant. In fact, it was already put up for sale a few years ago, shortly after the artist's death, in May 2017.

Some time ago I went to a party full of people from Manacor with a friend from out of town. A guy who wanted to meet her asked her to repeat “What color is Saint James’ white horse?” This apparently harmless phrase is a shibboleth, a formula that characterizes members of a linguistic group because it repeats a sound unknown to speakers of another language or dialect. Curiously, the word ‘xibòlet’ comes from the Bible, from the book of Judges, in which it is explained how forty-two thousand Ephraimites died for not being able to pronounce like our ‘x’ the initial consonant of the word, which they emitted as an ‘s’, which differentiated them from the rest of the Hebrews.

Being able to swim again in the Manacor municipal pool will still take time, but the City Council has already taken a decisive step to recover the facility. The municipal plenary session has approved the agreement with the bankruptcy administration of Esquitxos de Blavor SL, the former concessionaire, which will allow the Consistory to regain full rights to the sports space.

The Manacor City Council urged the Government this Monday to stop the project to build a mega-farm with 80,000 laying hens on the Son Brau estate. The proposal received the support of all municipal groups, both from the parties forming the government team (MÉS-Esquerra, PSOE, and AIPC) and from the Popular Party. Only Vox distanced itself. The Consistory bases its request on a series of unfavorable environmental reports issued by municipal technicians.

The old Citroën factory in Manacor, located on Carrer de les Parres, is getting closer and closer to starting a new chapter. The building, which for decades housed the dealership and workshop of the French brand, will be transformed into a training center for hospitality with a restaurant open to the public, driven by Aproscom, the foundation dedicated to the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the region.

Arnau Galmés, on bass; Roger Moragues, on guitar; Joel Moragues, on drums, and Ari Santos, on vocals. They are Espurna, the band that has just won the Ciutat de Manacor de la Cançó award. An award that reinforces the work they have done over the last year and a half and the EP of three songs they have just released on Spotify. We talk to them for a while to know their immediate plans.

The GOB has presented a series of allegations to the project for the chicken mega-farm that would be located in the Son Brau area, in which it is requested that the environmental impact declaration not be "favorable" until an "adequate" assessment of the repercussions on the na Borges Special Conservation Area (ZEC) is provided.

Guillem Barceló has just opened Patxanga, a shop that complements his screen printing workshop opened a few years ago, where he sells his own designs based on iconic Mallorcan phrases transformed into drawings and colors. T-shirts, lunch boxes, and bottles are the beginning of a creative universe now installed in the old Ca na Verda premises.

Toni Planissi (Manacor, 1973) is a discreet man and an extraordinary author. A modesty that quickly dissolves when one begins to leaf through the pages of his new graphic novel Todas las mentiras conducen a la verdad, the story of two worlds confronting each other to defend a reality that each one believes to be their own and unshakeable. An ironic critique of politics, religion, and the foundations of agreed-upon truths, but often sustained by lies.

Ferran Montero Sitges, current councillor for Culture and Education, will be the next candidate for mayor of Manacor for MÉS-Esquerra, a party that thus becomes the first to publicly show its hand and make its face official for the May 2027 elections. Let's talk about it for a while.

The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has convicted this Wednesday the six young people accused of humiliating and assaulting a young man with an intellectual disability in Manacor in 2021, after all of them have admitted the facts in the trial held by conformity.

It was December 1970 when a postal envelope sent from Manacor arrived by motorcycle at the Palacio del Pardo in Madrid. After the mandatory security checks, the envelope, the size of a sheet of paper, ended up on the table of the dictator Francisco Franco. Upon opening it, he discovered what they had already warned him about from Mallorca: inside was a subversive magazine, with articles in Catalan called Es Forat. Founded by Pep Lluís Fuster and Toni Riera, the publication aimed to offer a multidisciplinary view with articles on literature, cinema, and current affairs.

Josep Picó Matos was born on Carrer d'en Bosch on June 23, 1874, at a time when growing up in Manacor meant suffering economically and socially. From a Xueta family, he was the grandson of the also Manacorí Josep Picó Pomar Pabordo and Escolàstica Pomar, a native of Santa Maria. Baptized in the old church of dels Dolors, his name is not found in the civil registry.

In March 2022, the Servera family, linked to the Drac de Portocristo caves, put the S'Hort des Correu estate, on the outskirts of Manacor, up for sale. This definitively ended a century-old relationship between the space and the town, and with one of the most curious myths of Sant Joan's night. Around those dates, more than four years ago, the Llull family, the last caretakers of the house, had already left El Correu three years prior, shortly before the pandemic. And with them, the tradition of the magic vimer, the tree capable of curing hernias, had disappeared, once a year, for children who passed naked through its branches at sunrise on the shortest night, always at 6:20 AM.

A little over four months ago, the bridge over the Son Caules stream, which connects the two branches of the Camí de les Pedreres in Manacor, had to be closed indefinitely. The continuous passage of vehicles unsuitable and of great tonnage for the small infrastructure ended up causing the weakening of beams and joists and the appearance of a large hole. Now, and without an effective solution, the residents of the area have collected signatures to demand a response from the City Council, which in return has provided them with an alternative route through the stream, "a section that is unsafe, full of potholes, and when it rains it becomes impossible for us to pass, and therefore, we are left isolated," explains the spokesperson for those affected, Cati Valls.

Julián Reina, born in Felanitx (1976) and adopted by Manacor, has just written La huella de la mano, a book about the stonemason profession, its importance and some anecdotes and reflections from a master builder over the years. A curious and necessary text that can be purchased through Amazon.

The Mundana Command will perform by surprise at Manacor's Night of Art this Saturday. The rebel group of 80 artists, dissatisfied with the organization's work by the City Council and the treatment and conditions they are given when participating, are already working to have their demands ready.

Nobody wants it. As already happened with the Sineu macro-farm project, to which Maria and Llubí were opposed, the initiative that the same company now wants to carry out in Manacor has met with opposition from neighboring towns. Petra and Ariany are also raising their voices due to the project's proximity to urban centers.

Embat de Manacor announced this Saturday that it will run in the municipal elections of 2027. It did so at an event held at the bar Can Lliro, which brought together more than a hundred people.

After the crisis in Mallorca's dairy sector and the closure of Agama, there have been many doubts and administrative procedures to ensure that the island's producing farms could sell the thousands of liters of milk they had been supplying to the Barcelona-based Damm group company. A sudden and critical situation that forced the Government to explore various solutions to save face, so that the remaining producers could continue supplying cow's milk to Mallorcan processing companies.