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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 ...
People from the Balearic Islands by island (3 C) C. People by city in the Balearic Islands (9 C) O. People from the Balearic Islands by occupation (4 C)
Pages in category "Painters from the Balearic Islands" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Carolina Ceca (born 1979), contemporary artist and art historian based in Tokyo; Mari Chordà (born 1942), painter, poet, feminist; La Chunga (born c. 1938), flamenco dancer, painter; Anabel Colazo (born 1993), illustrator and cartoonist; Colita pseudonym of Isabel Steva i Hernández (born 1940), photographer; Ana Corbero (born 1961), painter ...
Ibiza is the larger of a group of the western Balearic archipelago called the Pityusic Islands (Pitiusas) or "Pine Islands" composed of itself and Formentera. The Balearic island chain includes over 50 islands, many of which are uninhabited.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, three exclaves in North Africa, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera that border Morocco, and the islands and peñones (rocks) of Alborán, Chafarinas, Alhucemas, and Perejil.