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Sāntal Café: The Coffee Mill in Santa Catalina

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026

There’s something poetic about grinding coffee in a place that was built for grinding. Sāntal Café has found its home inside one of Santa Catalina’s old mill buildings and the fit feels almost inevitable. Step through the door and the history of the space wraps around you quietly. Thick stone walls, a ceiling that reaches a little higher than you’d expect, and light spilling generously through large windows that frame the street like a painting. Outside, the terrace pulls you in even before…

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Wheels in the sky: Windmills on Mallorca

March 18, 2022

They have been on every picture postcard for decades. The windmills on Mallorca are landmarks, if not trademarks of the island. In particular the iconic windmills with the typical bicolor rotors. White painted metal with contrasting blue, green or red. Standing on the brown soil, fertile thanks to the groundwater that the mills pump up with the power of the wind. Or the wooden wheels of the larger windmills used to press oil or grind grain. Hardly any other place in Europe has as many windmills…