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Palma’s Club de Mar is on of the Mediterranean’s mo famous marinas. It is locate very close to the centre Palma, on the south coa
popular historic sights and show the past is a ways present in Mallorca’s commercial and cu tural centre. Palma is bustling all year roun hosting many exhibitions, concerts and cultur activities as well as the good shops, restauran and bars many know it for. own beach, the coas
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Palma is the Island’s capital city which has proud multicultural roots. Palma’s old town and the impressive Cathedral are
line is accessible and the marina provides the perfect setting to relax. The marina at Palma hosts Club de de Mar is in the south of the marina and holds 575 berths with a maximum length of 350m.
With its semitropical climate, Majorca, the largest island of the Balearics, has been drawing visitors from colder climes ever since George Sand wrote the dyspeptic Winter in Majorca about her 1839 sojourn here with Frédéric Chopin. “Majorca is the painter’s El Dorado,” she noted. In 1871, Archduke Ludwig Salvator abandoned the Austro-Hungarian Empire (where he was third in line to the throne) and lingered here for years, working to preserve ancient olive trees and create walking paths in the mountains. He was embraced by the loc als, who appreciated his reverence for their remote world. Sixty years later, Robert Graves, the English poet and novelist, settled in Deià, just inland from the northwest Majorca coast. “I found
everything I wanted as a writer: sun, sea, mountains, spring-water, shady trees, no politics, and a few civilized luxuries such as electric light,” Graves wrote about his adopted home. “I wanted to go where town was still town; and country, country.” This year, the house where Graves lived will be opened to the public as a museum. “So now,” says Tomás Graves, the poet’s 51-yearold son, “my father’s legacy can be seen as something besides a tombstone.” Actually, Graves’s legacy can also be seen as the cause of the transformation of the quiet Deià of the early 20th century into today’s less quiet colony for privileged visitors. It was he who brought attention to Deià by inviting as his
With its semitropical climate, Majorca, the largest island of the Balearics, has been drawing visitors from colder climes ever since George Sand wrote the dyspeptic Winter in Majorca about her 1839 sojourn here with Frédéric Chopin. “Majorca is the painter’s El Dorado,” she noted. In 1871, Archduke Ludwig Salvator abandoned the Austro-Hungarian Empire (where he was third in line to the throne) and lingered here for years, working to preserve ancient olive trees and create walking paths in the mountains. He was embraced by the locals, who appreciated his reverence for their remote world. Sixty years later, Robert Graves, the English poet and novelist, settled in Deià, just inland from the northwest Majorca coast. “I found everything I wanted as a writer: sun, sea, mountains, spring-water, shady trees, no politics, and a few civilized luxuries such as electric light,”
Graves wrote about his adopted home. “I wanted to go where town was still town; and country, country.” This year, the house where Graves lived will be opened to the public as a museum. “So now,” says Tomás Graves, the poet’s 51-yearold son, “my father’s legacy can be seen as something besides a tombstone.” Actually, Graves’s legacy can also be seen as the cause of the transformation of the quiet Deià of the early 20th century into today’s less quiet colony for privileged visitors. It was he who brought attention to Deià by inviting as his guests all manner of attention getters—Ava Gardner, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov among them. And around the time he was entertaining his world-famous friends, Winston Churchill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Charlie Chaplin were staying at the newly built Hotel Formentor. Just as the Arabs and Romans left their mark on the island in earlier