Friends of the Earth Mallorca has rejected Palma City Council's project to replant 36 trees to replace the beautiful shade trees that were cut down in Plaça Llorenç Villalonga, arguing that there has been no genuine participatory process. In a statement, the organization lamented that "what should have been a participatory process has been limited to meetings with affected groups, both neighborhood associations and environmentalists, but nothing more." In their opinion, there has been no consensus because most of the suggestions and proposals put forward by these groups have not been incorporated. According to the environmentalists, the most represented species in the project (with 12 trees), the fruitless white mulberry, is significantly inferior to the beautiful shade trees that were felled.

The Palma City Council's renaturalization plan for Plaça Llorenç Villalonga calls for the replanting of 35 trees. This represents an increase of 10 trees compared to the square's original tree population. These 35 trees will be added to the 6 palm trees already existing in the square, bringing the total to 41 trees, according to the city's proposal. The pruning of the beautiful shade trees in December 2025 sparked a great deal of controversy, mainly due to complaints from neighbors..

The Spanish Association of Arboriculture (AEA) has questioned the felling of several beautiful shade trees this Thursday by the Palma City Council in Llorenç Villalonga Square, citing technical safety reasons. The organization has demanded greater technical and scientific rigor from the council regarding the removal of trees considered part of the Balearic capital's heritage.

The City Council cut down the 18 beautiful shade trees in Llorenç Villalonga Square this Thursday morning. Despite the complaints, demonstrations and administrative appeals From the neighbors and entities, Cort, which on Tuesday received judicial authorization from the Administrative Court number 4 of Palma, has decided to cut them down.

The Administrative Court No. 4 of Palma has lifted the precautionary measure adopted on December 11th at the request of an organization regarding the replacement of 18 beautiful shade trees in Llorenç Villalonga Square due to the risk of them falling. The Court acknowledges the municipality's responsibility to guarantee public safety, taking into account the technical reports from the municipal Parks and Gardens department, which conclude that all the affected trees are in poor condition, with no future prospects, and with various pathologies that entail a high risk of fracture.

Around a hundred residents halted the municipal tree felling work on Thursday at 18 beautifulshadows of the Llorenç Villalonga square in Palma, which the City Council intends to remove because the trees, between 60 and 80 years old, are diseased and pose a danger to the safety of pedestrians and children.

Palma City Council will cut down 18 beautiful shade trees in Plaça de Llorenç Villalonga this Thursday, arguing that "these trees pose a risk of falling," and will replace them with 20 trees, the species of which have not yet been specified. However, residents and environmentalists do not believe the City Council's justification and believe that other alternatives can be explored that do not end the lives of trees that have become part of the landscape of the square, located just a few meters from a hotel. "The target area of the tree can be isolated to prevent anyone from being within the radius of a potential falling branch," suggests Mariano Reaño, president of Friends of the Earth. Local residents have organized a protest. human chain for this Thursday at 7 a.m. with the aim of stopping its logging.

This Thursday, July 10th, a good handful of young people were queuing at six in the evening at the Drac Màgic bookstore in Palma. It wasn't to buy the latest new release or to meet a trendy author. It was to listen to a conversation about a classic of Mallorcan literature in Catalan. Béarn or the doll room, by Lorenzo Villalonga. Many, surely, wouldn't have believed it if they'd been told in high school that it would be there, and not at the beach, on a summer day. But that's the effect. Tandem Club. Juliana Canet (Cardedeu, 1999) and Marina Porras (Rubí, 1991) are the hosts of this multi-format 3Cat program about literature that has sought to break the barrier between television and podcasts to also create a reading club from different bookstores throughout Catalonia. After broadcasting the eighth and final episode, focusing on the figure of Villalonga, Canet and Porras closed this first season in Palma, where they announced that they will return to talk about Blai Bonet in the second season of the program, which they are already preparing.