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Biblio Jardí: Palma’s Reading Garden Returns With a Fresh New Look

August 2, 2026August 2, 2026

Right at the upper end of La Rambla, past the flower stalls and the shade of tall plane trees, a quiet garden waits behind a large stone gate. From June through September, Biblio Jardí, the reading garden of Palma’s Biblioteca de Cultura Artesana, opens to anyone who wants to slow down for an afternoon. This summer the garden reopened with a fresh redesign, and it looks better than ever. And as temperatures rise, places with shade and trees have become vital public spaces. A Garden Where…

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Sant Jordi in Palma: Books and Roses

April 23, 2026April 23, 2026

Spring is in the air, and the city is showing off. Today, April 23 is the day of Sant Jordi in Palma. Book stalls and rose vendors line the streets of the old town. And by mid-morning, it feels like all of Palma has turned out at once. Families with strollers, couples hand in hand, elderly neighbors moving slowly but deliberately from table to table. And then there are the school kids. Whole classes of them, teachers in tow, descending on the book stalls with the kind of wide-eyed curiosity…

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Sant Jordi 2025: Books and Roses

April 21, 2025October 26, 2025

On Sant Jordi, it’s all about books. Books and roses, actually. On April 23 Mallorca celebrates Sant Jordi 2025, so don’t forget to get a good read and a rose for your loved one. There are plenty of book and flower stalls all over the island…

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Llibreria Pròpia: Women’s Stories

April 14, 2024April 15, 2024

Music, cheer and laughter echoes from the plaza through the streets of old town Palma. Where sunlight floods through the trees a diverse crowd is partying with live acts and dance. Palma’s first feminist bookshop is celebrating its first…

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Fira del Llibre 2023: Open-Air Book Fair

May 27, 2023May 29, 2023

From this weekend on, the Fira del Llibre in Palma attracts book lovers in a most beautiful setting. The traditional book fair has returned to the city’s noble boulevard El Born. And for ten days in a row, the city’s most engaged booksellers…

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Panorama Bar Bazar: Fancy Finds

March 19, 2023November 19, 2025

**** Panorama Bar Bazaar is now Diorama, and rather a bar and a cafeteria than a bazaar (11/25). **** You know that feeling of a favorite piece finding you instead of you finding it? Something you have never been looking for, that you may not…

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When We Were Young: Boomers by Bartolomé Seguí

February 9, 2023February 22, 2023

Tonight, the Mallorcan cartoonist and illustrator Bartolomé Seguí presented his new book. And the rows of chairs at Rata Corner were filling in no time. „Boomers“ tells of a group of longtime friends who get together some 30 years after they…

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Coming of age: Historias del Barrio

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

A wide starry sky over an orange grove, in the middle of it a red convertible. The radio plays “Golden Brown” by the Stranglers. Three city kids, none of them 18 years old yet, got lost in the Mallorcan countryside. At the end of the joyride…