The professor of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands, Nofre Rullan, turned the opening speech of the Sant Pere festivities into a journey through the recent history of the municipality, from its industrial past to its current globalized reality. With the title "Esporles: close to Palma and between Mallorca and the world", the geographer analyzes how the town has gone from textile factories to the model of a commuter town, then to a metropolitan municipality and, finally, to an Esporles marked by mobility, residential tourism, and real estate pressure.

The first of May used to mark the start of the tourist season, which ended on November 1st. It was a radical change; hotels opened and taxis began to make trips compulsively. Today, thanks to the de-seasonality we so longed for, things are more diffuse. Not only because there are tourists all year round, but in terms of space occupation. As Professor Nofre Rullan well diagnosed, in a few decades we have gone from having tourists concentrated in a dozen Balearic locations for six months, to having them scattered everywhere, all year round.