About 800 people marched today, Sa Berena day in Manacor, to the oratory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to demand the definitive reopening of the Sa Roca des Castellet path, an emblematic route that has been closed for decades by the owners of nearby houses, sheltered by municipal disinterest, which has not yet cataloged the path, despite historical evidence.

This March, singer Júlia Colom published a tune on social media that is not part of any of the albums she has released to date. It is a song written by her and her brother Martí, in which she speaks of a Mallorca that cries, of historic records, and of what, Colom says, we all know we have to do when the day gets longer: “stay inside at home so as not to bother them too much”. In a video that begins with a close-up of her and ends with an image of a hotel on the Majorcan coast, the singer from Valldemossa states: “Mallorca, you have been punished, / for getting the maximum profit: / a seasonal product / that now lasts all year round”. It is just the latest example of a whole series of songs with which island musicians and singers have demonstrated against mass tourism in recent years.

Franco was still alive, but the Franco regime was not at its best: economic crisis, the assassination of the regime's strongman – Carrero Blanco –, street protests – by workers, students, and residents – and, in short, timid signs of opening up from that last dictatorship in Western Europe. It was then, fifty years ago, that Catalan experienced a true explosion in all areas, thanks to the Congress of Catalan Culture (1975-1977), to which Can Alcover, a space of the Balearic Cultural Association (OCB) in Palma, is currently dedicating an exhibition.