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This is a list of famous Balearic people (people from the Balearic Islands, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain). Álex Abrines (born 1993), basketball player; Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862–1932), linguist and folk tale writer; Simón Andreu (born 1941), actor; Miquel Barceló (born 1957), painter
Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. 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. [4]
The official name of the Balearic Islands in Catalan is Illes Balears, while in Spanish, they are known as the Islas Baleares.. The ancient Greeks usually adopted local names into their own language, but they called the islands Γυμνησίαι / Gymnesiai, unlike either the native inhabitants of the islands, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, who called them Βαλεαρεῖς, with the ...
Balearic Islands: Islas Baleares: Palma de Mallorca: 11.53 4.45 – 020: M-0: Isla Dragonera – Balearic Islands: Islas Baleares: Andraitx: 2.52 0.97 – – 023: M-0: Isla de Espalmador – Balearic Islands: Islas Baleares: Formentera: 1.37 0.53 – – 023: M-0: S'Illot – Balearic Islands: Islas Baleares: Alcúdia: n/d – – 027: M-0 ...
'smaller island', later Minorica) is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Mallorca . Its capital is Mahón ( Catalan : Maó ), situated on the island's eastern end, although Menorca is not a province and forms a political union with the other ...
On Friday, about 1,000 protesters took part in a demonstration against mass tourism in Ibiza, one of the most popular Balearic Islands. "We want a limit on new tourist places and a ban on more ...
The island maintained its own self-government in several forms until 1715, when King Philip V of Spain abolished the local government's autonomy. The arrival of democracy in the late 1970s led to the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands. Today, the island is part of the Balearic Autonomous Community, along with Mallorca, Menorca and ...
North of Formentera is located Espalmador (in Catalan: Illa de S'Espalmador), the second largest island of the Pitiusas Islands, surrounded by a few minor islets. Espalmador is a tombolo, separated from the main island of Formentera by a shallow sandbar. This area is a popular stopping point for those in yachts heading between Ibiza and Formentera.