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Palma is the Island’s capital city which has proud multicultural roots.

Palma’s old town and

good shops, restaurants and bars many know it for. own beach, the coastline is accessible and the marina provides the perfect setting to rel The marina at Palma hosts Club de de Mar is in the south of the marina and holds 575 berths

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-year-old 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. 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 times, so have the latter-day globe-trotters. Accessible by quick flight from most of Europe into a vast, modern airport, Majorca attracts more than 8 million visitors a year; one out of every four people on Majorca is a foreigner. Beaches have become as crowded with sunbathers as Coney Island.

And in the summer, Tomás Graves can hardly find a moment to himself.

Graves, a musician and author of Bread and Oil—a book about the island’s staple cuisine and traditional culture—darts around on all kinds of social calls. One night he’ll be at La Fonda, the Deià bar frequented by hipster kids with pierced noses and dowagers with aristocratic ones, drinking with a tabla player who has just giv-

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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 times, so have the latter-day globe-trotters.

Accessible by quick flight from most of Europe into a vast, modern airport, Majorca attracts more than 8 million visitors a year; one out of every four people on Majorca is a foreigner. Beaches have become as crowded with sunbathers as Coney Island.

And in the summer, Tomás Graves can hardly find a moment to himself.

Graves, a musician and author of Bread and Oil—a book about the island’s staple cuisine and traditional culture—darts around on all kinds of social calls. One night he’ll be at La Fonda, the Deià bar frequented by hipster kids with pierced noses and dowagers with aristocratic ones, drinking with a tabla player who has just given an impromptu concert in a nearby