The Palma City Council unanimously approved on Thursday the proclamation of two Illustrious Daughters of the City, Pilar Juncosa Iglesias and Caty Juan de Corral, both deceased, and also gave the green light to the awarding of the City's Gold Medals for 2025. These medals recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations that, individually or collectively, have contributed to the progress, development, and cultural and social projection of Palma. Pilar Juncosa Iglesias will be distinguished as an Illustrious Daughter for her fundamental role, alongside her husband Joan Miró, in the creation of an artistic universe that has marked the evolution of art in Mallorca and placed the city on the international map of contemporary art. The writer, journalist, and gastronome from Palma, Caty Juan de Corral, a cultural icon and tireless promoter of local culinary and literary traditions, will also receive this honorary title.

The City Council has also agreed to award the City's Gold Medal to Iguana Teatre, a historic and renowned performing arts company in the Balearic Islands; the Son Dameto Choir, a pioneering musical group with a recognized artistic identity throughout the island; and the Balearic Islands Without Borders association, for its contribution to the integration of citizens from other regions and to cultural exchange. The Royal and Very Humble Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Palma will also be honored with the Gold Medal for its role in consolidating tradition.rocierain the city; Bernat Pujol, director of the Taula Rodona company, with more than four decades dedicated to avant-garde theater; and the Palma-born poet Antonina Canyelles Colom, one of the most prominent voices in Catalan-language poetry of the late 20th and present day. The awards will be presented at the official ceremony planned for the feast day of Saint Sebastian, patron saint of Palma.

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The first protagonist of this story is a boy, a boy of about eight or nine years old who closely observes a youth player, driven by an endless curiosity, an unquenchable thirst. Inside that piece of furniture, surely taller and undoubtedly much older and much more overwhelming than he is, lies an entire life, although the boy doesn't know exactly what it contains. He suspects it's all papers, and he knows for certain that they are important to his mother, words that can be as defining as they are definitive. "Can I stick my nose in and read something?" he dares to ask, finally, one day. "If one day I see you doing it, if you break this rule, all these papers will be burned and nothing will remain but ashes. Do you feel me?" his mother replies. "Since I'm dead, go ahead with the chatter. But until then, don't try to get close."

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In an extraordinary plenary session, the Pollença City Council unanimously declared the writer Xesca Ensenyat (1952-2009) an Illustrious Daughter of the municipality. In March, a citizen initiative was registered with the City Council, which received nearly 100 signatures from the cultural, educational, and associative worlds of the municipality and Mallorca, requesting the City Council to declare the writer an Illustrious Daughter.

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