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Felanitx
Felanitx or Felanich is a municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, located in the southeast of Majorca, 48 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Palma de Mallorca. The town, dating back to the 13th century, lies near the medieval Sant Salvador Monastery with its Gothic architecture. Culture The St. Agustí convent was founded by Augustinians in the 17th Century. In 1881 the Felanitx town council took over the church and celebrates that event every year. It's celebrated by performing Els Cavallets, a dance in which six ''Cavallets'' between 10 and 14 years of age, perform dances. The ''Cavallets'' wear a cardboard horse around their middles, dressed in a red shirt and a green hat. They dance around ''La Dama'', a girl in a green dress with a red hat. There are nine different dances: ''es rollet, ses tres potadetes, s'envestida, es canvis, ses cadenilles, es passeig, es pas nou,'' ''esses velles'' and ''esses noves.'' The dances are accompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felanitx
Felanitx or Felanich is a municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, located in the southeast of Majorca, 48 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Palma de Mallorca. The town, dating back to the 13th century, lies near the medieval Sant Salvador Monastery with its Gothic architecture. Culture The St. Agustí convent was founded by Augustinians in the 17th Century. In 1881 the Felanitx town council took over the church and celebrates that event every year. It's celebrated by performing Els Cavallets, a dance in which six ''Cavallets'' between 10 and 14 years of age, perform dances. The ''Cavallets'' wear a cardboard horse around their middles, dressed in a red shirt and a green hat. They dance around ''La Dama'', a girl in a green dress with a red hat. There are nine different dances: ''es rollet, ses tres potadetes, s'envestida, es canvis, ses cadenilles, es passeig, es pas nou,'' ''esses velles'' and ''esses noves.'' The dances are accompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquel Bauçà
Miquel Bauçà Rosselló (; 1940–2004) was a Mallorcan poet and writer in the Catalan language. His poems have appeared in most contemporary Catalan poetry anthologies. He was recognized as a talented poet from a young age with ''Una bella història'' (1962). Bauçà wrote poetry and narrative work, contained in the publication of ''El Canvi'' (1998), the highlight of his work and the beginning of a poetic-encyclopedic project that deepened his later works. He died in late 2004, in solitude; his body was discovered in early 2005. Early life Bauçà came from a farming family in Felanitx. He was predominantly raised by a cruel father after his mother died when he was 12; the lost relationship with his mother is detailed in a poem included in ''Una bella història''. Shortly after his mother died, Bauçà was sent to a seminary in Palma. Bauçà's grandfather was well-loved on the island. In childhood, he was described as "quiet and a little shy". In the late 1950s, Bauçà and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariona Caldentey
María Francesca Caldentey Oliver (born 19 March 1996), known as Mariona Caldentey or simply Mariona, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga F club FC Barcelona and the Spain women's national team. Early life María Francesca Caldentey Oliver was born in the Mallorcan town of Felanitx to father Miguel Ángel Caldentey and mother María Oliver. Her father was a football coach and her mother is a nurse by profession. She also has an older brother. Caldentey began playing football at the age of four in her local team as an after-school activity. She later played futsal in Manacor, where she won multiple titles and played in three Spanish championships. Although Caldentey did not develop in La Masia, she has had a lifelong connection to FC Barcelona; her father was one of the promoters of ''Els Tamarells'', one of Barcelona’s biggest penyes. Club career Collerense Caldentey developed through the ranks of the UD Collerense youth system. Barc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Timoner
Guillermo Timoner Obrador (born 24 March 1926) is a retired Spanish cyclist. With six gold and two silver medals won in the UCI Motor-paced World Championships between 1955 and 1965 he is one of the most successful motor-paced racing, motor-paced racers of all times. During his career, which spanned 52 years, he also won 29 national titles in various cycling disciplines. Before becoming professional cyclist he worked as a carpenter. He won his first competition in 1943 and retired around 1965 to work in commerce. He reappeared as a cyclist in 1983, and in 1984 took part in the World Championships in Barcelona in the masters category. In 1995, aged 69, he won the European Championships, biking a distance of 53.4 km with an average speed of 37.4 km/h. In 1998 he received the Ramon Llull Award from the government of the Balearic Islands. He lives in his native Felanitx, Balearic Islands, Spain. His younger brother Antonio Timoner, Antonio is also a former competitive cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillem Sagrera
Guillem Sagrera (Felanitx, Mallorca ca. 1380–Naples, 1456) was a Gothic sculptor and architect from Mallorca. A native of Felanitx, in Mallorca, in the early 15th century he was director of the works of the Cathedral of Perpignan (then part of the Kingdom of Mallorca) in late-Gothic style; in the same style is La Seu Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, in which he also served as director of the works. In Palma is also what is considered his masterwork, the Llotja dels Mercaders (1426–1447). He also worked at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon in Naples, where he restored the Castel Nuovo, redesigning its plan and adding several loggia In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...s and the Barons Hall. He died in 1456 in Naples. 1380 births 1456 deaths Sculptors f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquel Barceló
Miquel Barceló Artigues (born 1957) is a Spanish painter. Career Barceló was born at Felanitx, Mallorca. After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. However, he only studied at this school for a few months. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Llunàtic", a conceptual avantgarde group. He also took part in the creation of their artist periodical ''Neon de Suro'' (21 issues from 1957–1982). A year after his return to Mallorca he had his first one-man show at the Palma Museum. Initially the Avant-garde, Art Brut and American abstract Expressionism (e.g. Pollock had a big impact on him) influenced Barceló's work. On the other hand, he was always particularly interested in the Baroque paintings of Diego Velázquez, Tintoretto and Rembrandt. Jean Dubuffet inspired Barceló in adopting an experimental att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xeremia
The ''xeremia'' (, plural ''xeremies'') is a type of bagpipe native to the island of Majorca (''Mallorca'').* It consists of a bag made of skin (or modern synthetic materials), known as a ''sac'' or ''sarró'' which retains the air, a blowpipe (''bufador''), a melody pipe or chanter (''grall''), and several, generally three, drones (''bordons''). The primary drone (''roncó'') sounds a tonic note, but the other drones are sometimes simply false drones for ornamentation. The ''xeremia'' has a distinctively bright and piercing sound, which has traditionally accompanied festivals and other activities in the islands throughout history. Name The name ''xeremia'' is of French origin. The Old French word ''chalemie'' over time became ''charemie''. This is related to the influence of Occitania during the Kingdom of Aragon, as Catalan was quite strong from the year 531 to approximately 1131, as the Occitan cultural centre expanded through the means of minstrels and bards, throughout the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is "La Balanguera". Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year since 2012. Etymology The name derives from Classical Latin ''insula maior'', "larger island". Later, in Medieval Latin, this became ''Maiorca'', "the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migjorn
Migjorn is a Comarca (county) in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. It includes the following municipalities: * Campos * Felanitx * Llucmajor * Ses Salines Ses Salines is a small municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ... * Santanyi Comarcas of the Balearic Islands {{Balearics-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in a few North African countries. CET is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: MEZ) and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Rome Time, Warsaw Time or even Romance Standard Time (RST). The 15th meridian east is the central axis for UTC+01:00 in the world system of time zones. As of 2011, all member states of the European Union observe summer time ( daylight saving time), from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. States within the CET area switch to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00) for the summer. In Africa, UTC+01:00 is called West Africa Time (WAT), where it is used by several countries, year round. Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia also refer to it as ''Central Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flabiol
The flabiol () is a Catalan woodwind musical instrument of the family known as '' fipple flutes''. It is one of the 12 instruments of the cobla. The flabiol measures about 25 centimeters in length and has five or six holes on its front face and three underneath. Overview The two main types are the ''dry flabiol'' without keys, usually made of a hardwood such as bubinga, and the keyed flabiol, used in coblas for sardana dances and in other folk music ensembles. The flabiol is normally played by the left hand while the player uses the right hand to beat a small drum (called '' tamborí'') attached to the left elbow. All sardanes played by a cobla begin with a short introduction (''introit'') from the flabiol which is terminated by a single tap of the ''tamborí''. Its traditional geographic zone extends from the south of Catalonia to the Roussillon area of France, and from the Eastern strip of Aragon to the Balearic islands, where it is used as solo instrument with its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Barceló
Sebastian may refer to: People * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons with the name Arts, entertainment, and media Films and television * ''Sebastian'' (1968 film), British spy film * ''Sebastian'' (1995 film), Swedish drama film * ''Sebastian'' (2017 film) * ''Belle and Sebastian'' (Japanese TV series), a 1981 anime series based on the 1965 novel * '' Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission'', a Dutch animated film released in 1991 * ''Sebastiane'' (1976 film), 1976 Derek Jarman film in Latin about the saint Literature * ''Sebastian'' (Bishop novel), the first novel of the ''Landscapes of Ephemera'' duology written by Anne Bishop * ''Sebastian'' (Durrell novel), the fourth volume in ''The Avignon Quintet'' series by Lawrence Durrell * '' Belle et Sébastien'', a 1965 novel and live action TV series written by Cécile Aubry * "Sebastian, or, Virtue Rewarded", the name of an unpublished poem written around 1815 by the 9-year-old Elizabeth Barrett, later famous as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
