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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - revolution]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[La Calatrava, the neighborhood that brought freedom to Mallorca]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/7ae547cd-ac08-48ea-8671-fd1ae1130655_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>In the Mallorca of late Francoism, the revolution began in La Calatrava, a small neighborhood of Palma located between the cathedral and the Baluard del Príncep. Antoni Rotger Martínez was its alma mater. “I no longer recognize – he laments at 80 years old – the streets where I grew up and played with other children. There are tourists everywhere and, because of gentrification, many of my former comrades in struggle have had to leave. This was a rundown, working-class neighborhood, and now it is prey to the real estate speculation that the entire island suffers from”. In 1975, this man from Calatrava, of the 'pedra picada' style, was 32 years old and, with Franco agonizing, he already led the neighborhood mobilization against the construction of a large parking lot for tourist coaches in front of the Cathedral. The cry of protest was ‘Park YES, parking NO’. Due to that pressure, in May 1976 the City Council rectified and gave way to a competition of ideas for the design of the current Parc de la Mar, which was inaugurated in 1984.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoni Janer Torrens]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:11:08 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Children's performances at the Calatrava festivals in the late 70s.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Once Franco was dead, from 1976 onwards, one of the most degraded neighborhoods in Palma created the first neofesta and was a pioneer in the ecological and feminist struggle through explosive artistic creativity. The subversive Calatrava model would inspire the village festivals of the Part Forana and in 2014, Orgull Llonguet]]></subtitle>
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