Happy Birthday, Mafalda! 50 years ago, on 29 September 1964, the very first Mafalda comic strip by Quino was published in Primera Plana. C/ de Can Arboç…
Street Art #10: Mafalda – forever young
House of arts: Casal Solleric
To me, Casal Solleric is not only one of the most beautiful houses in Palma it also has its very own magic. The second you step into the Baroque manor you leave downtown Palma with its busy crowd and traffic noise behind and enter a still, cool…
Street Art #9
Camí de Coanegra, Santa Maria del…
Life is a journey: La Casa del Mapa
**** Sorry to say that La Casa del Mapa closed down. Sure, GPS has long taken over but for me it’s a true loss.**** With all our smartphones and tablets you might think of maps as outdated instruments for navigating through unknown territory…
Thank you for the fish: Babel
Yes, Babel is basically a bookstore, but actually it is much more: with its huge stock of fiction and non-fiction and the expertly arranged genres, Babel is a biblioteca Borges would have been proud of. I could spend days in there, browsing…
Street Art #8
On our way to…
Street Art #7: Enrique Oxandabarat
For 13 years now, Enrique Oxandabarat has been playing his guitar in the streets of Palma. Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, he is a real street artist. Even though he mostly covers popular English and American songs, he also wrote some in…
Estudi d’art: Zavella 25
If the door on Carrer Can Savella, a small side street just off Placa de Quadrado, is closed, you would never imagine the treasures hidden behind it. Alejandro G. Vizcarro’s art studio where he mainly works as a designer today, also holds a…