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caves lower lance |morell| Popular

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2007/11/26 15:15

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caves lower lance |morell|Minorca

Dragonera (Spain) Popular

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2006/7/27 0:11

1495

Dragonera( or under Dragonera in Catalan ) is a belonging island to the balearic islands archipelago ( in Spain ) and finds to him put westwards of Majorca. It has a longitude of 3.200 meters and a width it arrives until the 500 meters with a very sharp and irregular relief that causes the appearance of some protuberances by reaching to reach the more high peak of the island, call burn Popi, a few 360 meters of height. The more next locations to this island are those of saint Telmo and port of Andrach, in which they have established centers of submarinismo and divings that attracts to many tourists in the summery seasons.Picture: Lothar Velling, Diseñador gráfico http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonera

It is Mercadal Popular

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2006/7/27 0:06

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It is Mercadal is a municipality of the Minorca island (Spain), with a population of 3.268 inhabiting, that is found in the skirt of mounting bull, the more high mountain of the island.Is put to 25 kilometers of the capital nankeen and to a few 15 of Fornells, population that belongs to your municipal term.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es_Mercadal

Cala Pregonda Popular

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2007/12/27 13:40

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Minorca

Virgin of Lluc. Patrona of Lluc (Majorca) and of natives of the Balearic Isles Popular

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2006/7/14 1:56

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Mare de Deú de Lluc,"La Moreneta".Account the legend, that little after the reconquest, when the christians, commanded for the James I king, achieved snatch Majorca to the Islam, an Arab marriage had to give your farm, put in the high thing of saws it of Tramuntana, to the new misters.To survive, not took a long time in embracing the Christian faith and baptize also to your children.One of them, the Lluc, Luke child, took charge of it takes to the |momtañas| the flock of goats and ewes of your father in order that they fed there.A Lluc day observed a strange light between the thick thickets of the "|massís|".Move for the curiosity, went in in them/it and discovered a small figure of the virgin María it stood out with difficulty of the earth.However, which really caused you surprise went that the virgin had a so dark skin such as yours own.Prisoner of a great excitment, the young shepherd took the figure to the parish priest of the church of Sant Pere d " Escorca, whose first documentary reference date of the year 1247.The parish priest destined to the valuable find a position of honor in the small church, but the next day, when the winds of the Tramuntana had spread the news and arrived faithfuls to venerate the, the virgin had disappeared.That same day for the afternoon, Lluc turned to find the exactly in the in fashion previous place.She is returned to take to the parish priest, who the placed again in your niche to verify with great astonishment the next day that had verso to disappear.This game of the hide-and-seek continued until to the parish priest is lit you a light:the virgin would want to be in the place in which, with your brilliance, it called for first time the attention of the Lluc little shepherd and immediately it is built there a chapel.É|sta| is the romantic version and poetic and who refuse to launch in the hands of the modern rationalism, by accepting, for example, the more prosaic version that in Mallorcan "|lluc|" is important forest, that still it abounds in the place and that, therefore, the small Lluc in a compassionate invention with an appropriate surname, it will do well in believing it firmly.So did it and continues making it the people, because immediately began to flow traveling with such intensity that in the year 1260 it laid the foundation stone of the Nostra Senyora hermitage of Lluc, governed then for the order of the augustians, afterwards, the construction was enlarged with a seminary and at present reside in it and attend it monks of the sacred heart.

Iviza (city) Popular

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2006/7/27 0:17

1871

Capital of the Iviza island( official denomination, in Catalan, Eivissa ). It finds located in the area this of the island of the same name.Aiboshim, the city of bars, was founded for the phoenicians, the year 654 AdC ( according to the classic texts ). The urban nucleus is composed of an acropolis and a port area in the border of the bay. Also it counted on temples and |artesanales| areas with important potteries. It calculates to him that in the V adC century the city had between 4000 and 5000 inhabitants. During the whole Punic time it went a shopping center of great vitality, that exported manufactured products to different places of the Mediterranean thing. After the destruction of Carthage, the year 146 AdC, the city kept your political and commercial autonomy and it continued, even with major intensity, the commercial and industrial activity as city federated of, blunt this stage executed when Vespasiano the converted in Roman municipality (Municipius Flavius Ebusus) the year 70. It began then a period of decadence that kept, almost, the whole imperial phase steelyard until the arrival of the vandals, the year 424, and your later occupation for the arabs. The city was conquered on 8th August 1235 for the archbishop of Tarragona Guillem of Montgri, the Pere male infant of Portugal and the noble Nuno Sanç below the assignment of the James I king the conqueror. Being the ancient part of the known city as Dalt Vila (high city). The Dalt Vila medieval area was strengthened by Felipe II to protect the city of attacks of ottomen and piratical, since the triple defensive area, of Arab origin, was not sufficient. photograph: Forbfruit http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_%28ciudad%29

Ciutadella Popular

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2007/11/23 15:37

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Punta Nati Popular

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2007/11/27 16:02

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Punta NatiMinorca

Citadel (natives of the Balearic Isles) Popular

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2006/7/27 0:10

1454

Citadel( in Catalan and in an official way Ciutadella of Minorca ) is a municipality of the balearic islands, in Spain. Put in the extreme west of the island, it is the second city in number of inhabitants of Minorca and soothes of the bishopric of the island. It directed the |capitalidad| until the English occupation the year 1714.along the centuries, the different inhabitants have given you diverse names: Jamma, Iamo, Iamona, medina Minurka. But it went as of the 1287 , as a result of the incorporation of Minorca to the Christian and European culture with the conquest of Alfonso III, that it is imposed the current name, |topónimo| that, etymologically, it comes of the |civitatella| Latin, diminutive of |civitas| ( city ). in spite of that, this names already throve between the population romanized and the Mozarabic |menorquines| previous to the colonization carried out for the corona of Aragon.At present she is named Ciutadella of Minorca in an official way ( by making a parallelism with the capital of Majorca ) not to mix up the with other |topónimos|. photograph: J. Braun (09 / 2004) http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudadela_%28Baleares%29

Cathedral of palm Popular

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2006/7/27 0:20

1895

Palm of Mayorca creates to him that the current settling of the city of palm were busy embryonic for a |talayótico| town with strong associations with the sea. In the 123 afterwards to.C. it was invaded for the romen in an expedition be a militant member directed for the Roman consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus. More late, in the 903, conquers it the Arab general Isam to the -Jawlani, that counted on the approval of the Córdoba Abd Allah amir. They called to the Madina Mayurqa city, of those which keep monumental ruins as the palace of the Almudaina and the Arab bathes photograph: stAn http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Palma_de_Mallorca

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