<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Kings]]> 10 <![CDATA[The Three Kings' Parade fills Palma with excitement for the little ones]]>

The Three Kings' Parade returned this evening, transforming Palma into a grand stage of fantasy and wonder, especially for the children. Their Majesties from the East – Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar – arrived at 6:00 PM aboard the sailboat Rafael Verdera at the Muelle Vell (Old Dock), from where they began the traditional parade through the main streets of Palma, accompanied by music, dancing, and a renewed stagingDespite the intense cold, brought by Storm Francis and the arrival of an arctic air mass, thousands of Palma residents took to the streets to welcome the Three Kings. At the dock, the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, presented the keys to the city to Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar before they began their procession through the main streets of the Balearic capital, with the Mounted Police leading the way.

]]> <![CDATA[Disruption in Marivent]]> It doesn't happen to me all the time, but there are moments in our longing collective life that make me yearn for the malicious and often lucid pen of Llorenç Villalonga. The author of the Disruptions, of the myth of Bearn and the dystopia of touristified Mallorca refuted as Turclub in Andrea Víctrix He was also a broad-stroke caricaturist, loaded with bias and ideology, yes, but a caricaturist, nonetheless. He knew how to observe Mallorcan society with the cunning of the cats he liked so much (he had one, for example, that he called Moix), and then he portrayed it with the perfidy of a distorted mirror. Thus, the poet Aina Cohen was an alter ego of Maria Antònia Salvà, one of the best writers this island has ever produced, and a good part of the Mallorcan nobility of the time was scandalized to find themselves (or not to find themselves!) portrayed among the few dozen pages of Death of a LadyHis novels were often parades of characters who moved between the grotesque and the ambivalent, between sarcasm and the nevertheless.

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