10 At the Consell de Mallorca, in a fit of misguided modernity, or rather, a blessing, they've decided to name the new hiking route in the Levante region East Mallorca GR 226. It sounds like a joke, but it isn't: East Mallorca. As if the place name 'Levante' had never existed, as if it were something too local, too old, too... Mallorcan. And you don't even have to be a toponymy enthusiast to know that the Levante region is much more than a cardinal point: it's a territory with a name, an identity, a landscape, and pride. Even the King of Spain, who isn't known for being an expert on local culture or for loving Catalan, gave Rafael Nadal the title of Marquis of Levante, not East Mallorca. Or will they now change his marquisate too?

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