The President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, warned this Saturday that population growth threatens the "identity" of the Islands, an assertion she made during the Balearic Islands Day celebrations, an institutional event where the Ramon Llull Awards and the community's gold medal were presented. "We have watched with nostalgia as the appearance of our cities and towns changed. As we have doubled our population during this time, a population growth that we have embraced as a challenge we cannot ignore, a pattern of unsustainable growth. Unsustainable for our territory, for our identity, and also for our people." But, several paragraphs later, Prohens affirmed that "the Balearic way of being" remains unchanged: "Today we also celebrate, precisely, that there is something that does not change, that there is something that remains unaltered. (...) Our way of being."

Balearic Islands Day 2026 will take place between February 26 and March 2, with March 1 as the main day. The Balearic Government presented a program this Wednesday that includes 301 activities spread across Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera. The complete program with all the activities detailed, schedules, and locations can be found on the official Balearic Islands Day website. diada.caib.eswhere information is updated by island and municipality. Under the slogan 'A way of being', the Diada maintains the participatory format of recent years and reinforces the presence of children's activities, popular culture, local products, crafts, and sporting events.