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Palma Nova Beach is seven kilometers (4.3 mi) from Calvià, situated between Punta Nadala and es Carregador, on the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca. Besides Palmanova beach , other names by which the beach is known include "Playa de Palma Nova", [ map 1 ] and "Platja de Palma Nova".
Mallorca is the largest island of Spain by area and second most populated (after Tenerife in the Canary Islands). [34] [35] Mallorca has two mountainous regions, the Serra de Tramuntana and Serres de Llevant. Both are about 70 km (43 mi) in length and occupy the northwestern and eastern parts of the island respectively.
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Palma Beach, located within the bay. Sunset at the Bay of Palma. The Bay of Palma (Catalan: Badia de Palma, Spanish: Bahía de Palma) is a bay located to the south of Palma, Majorca, Spain. It is in the south-west of the Balearic Island of Mallorca. Palma de Majorca's harbour is located on the northern shores along with some famous beaches.
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 ...
The area where Alcúdia is located has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, but it is with the arrival of the Romans that the city makes its entry into the history books. The Romans used the beaches of Alcúdia bay when they captured the island in 123 B.C. Shortly after this, the capital Palma was founded and then the city of Pollentia. From ...
The town has a well-maintained beach and is within an hour's drive of the capital Palma de Mallorca, and half an hour's drive from Cuevas del Drach. The island's main airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport , AKA PMI, is on the west side of Palma de Mallorca, and is 70 kilometers west of Cala Millor.
In 1948, Emilio Pastor Santos of the Spanish National Research Council found that the charts and maps up to 1899 had shown that Kapingamarangi and a few other islands had never been considered part of the Caroline Islands, were not included in the description of the territory transferred to Germany and were never ceded by Spain; therefore ...