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SANTUARI MARE DE DÉU DE SANT SALVADOR

SANTUARI MARE DE DÉU DE SANT SALVADOR

(THE SANCTUARY MARE DE DÉU DE SANT SALVADOR)
This 15th-century sanctuary stands on the highest mountain in the township, and especially worth seeing are the monastery hostel, the image of the Holy Virgin of Sant Salvador, and a Gothic altarpiece The first church was built in 1348 after the Black Death and consecrated as Passio Imaginis to St. Saviour. The church already existed in the 17th century (it is not known whether this was the original, enlarged one, or a second, new-built one) and had two chapels, the main one consecrated to the Passio Imaginis and the other one to the Holy Virgin Mary of Sant Salvador. The present church was...
EL CALVARI

EL CALVARI

(Oratory)
This oratory is located at 216 metres above sea level. The walkway up the mountain and to the chapel was built between 1852 and 1856. The project was promoted by Sebastià Serra, the parish's priest at that time. In 1853 they consecrated and placed the image of the saint, in 1855 they hung a bell and in 1856 they finished the chapel. A few years later, in 1862, it was declared as a public oratory and property of the diocese, and solemnly inaugurated. The chapel is modestly built and decorated, and about 15 metres long. The single-nave building has a barrel vault. The façade is...
CASTELL DE SANTUERI

CASTELL DE SANTUERI

Santueri Castle
CLOSOS DE CAN GAIÀ

CLOSOS DE CAN GAIÀ

(Prehistoric site from the Bronze Age)
The prehistoric site Closos de Can Gaià near Portocolom is one of the most important settlements from the Bronze Age in Mallorca. It was inhabited roughly between 1700 and 750 BC. Remarkable are the nine buildings that have been discovered and excavated to date. Those structures, called navetas, served mainly as private dwellings or houses, but they clearly had also a communal and symbolic function and were used as places for the settlement's social and important gatherings. From 1996 onwards, the University of the Balearic Islands started campaigns for excavation. Since then, those...
PLAÇA D'ESPANYA

PLAÇA D'ESPANYA

Although this square is popularly called "plaça de ses Palmeres" (Palm Square), throughout history it had different names: square of the trough (abeurador), square dels Rossells and in 1938 it was officially named "Plaça d'Espanya" This square was remodelled many times. From the 15th century onwards, on this open space there were drinking troughs and washing places with water from the well, which were rearranged at the end of the 18th century. The troughs were removed and placed back twice (the last time was in 1894) until in 1940 they were definitively demolished. The same...
PARROQUIA DE SANT MIQUEL, SA PAGESA I SA QUARTERA.

PARROQUIA DE SANT MIQUEL, SA PAGESA I SA QUARTERA.

St. Michael's Parish Church, "Sa Pagesa" i "Sa Quartera"
The church The present parish church of St. Michael (Sant Miquel), accessed by a majestic staircase from the Plaza de Sa Font de Santa Margalida, was built between the 16th and 17th centuries. On the same site, since the 13th century there had already stood several Christian buildings, consecrated to St. Mary. With the construction of the new church, however, in 1376 it was reconsecrated to St. Michael. In 1551, under the direction of Mallorcan architects Antoni and Jordi Genovard, began the construction of the present church. In his day, Antoni Genovard was a highly recognised and...
PLAÇA DE SA FONT DE SANTA MARGALIDA

PLAÇA DE SA FONT DE SANTA MARGALIDA

(Sa Font square and the fountain of St. Margarete)
Facing the St. Michael's parish church, this is one of the most important squares in the city, probably already used in Roman and Moorish time. It has already been documented since the year 1254 The name "Santa Margalida" (St. Margaret) goes back to an event in 1490. At a time when the whole island of Mallorca was suffering from a severe drought, the people of Felanitx organised intercessions and processions, and prayed for water. The town councillors decided to dig the well deeper and, at a depth of 18 spans, abundant water began to spring forth. This happened on the 20th of July 1490, the...
CASA DE CULTURA (CAN PROHENS)

CASA DE CULTURA (CAN PROHENS)

(Culture House - Can Prohens)
In 1970 the Town Council of Felanitx purchased the Can Prohens building and completely renovated it, making it the town's cultural centre. This manor house with the typical division into two main floors (ground floor and piano nobile) plus a third floor corresponds to the traditional building principle of Mallorcan baroque architecture. A beautiful portal with a round arch distinguishes the ground floor. Next to the portal, a mounting block is still preserved, today the only one in the town. In the past they used it as an assistance to get on a horse. Those blocks were known as colcadors...
ES FONER

ES FONER

The statue of the slinger
This bronze statue, by the Felanitx-born sculptor Jaume Mir, stands in front of the Cultural Centre and was donated by the artist in 1992. Jaume Mir (1915-2012) was one of the most prestigious Mallorcan sculptors of the 20th century, and his work and rigorous technique are internationally renowned. In January 1992, on the occasion of his receiving the gold medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, in honour of the Felanitx-born sculptor there was held a great exhibition in the Cultural Centre. It showed a substantial part of his work. So many people attended the opening event, that the...
MERCAT MUNICIPAL

MERCAT MUNICIPAL

(Market hall)
This regionalist-style building was built by the architect Francesc Roca i Simó during the Second Spanish Republic. The republican government of the time approved a project to remodel the town centre. The building was inaugurated on the 19th of July 1936, one day after the Civil War began. It was built right in the historic centre of the town, where previously there had been the hospital and the Sa Quartera house, both of which demolished. The steep site on a slope conditioned the design of the structure and the façades of all the buildings around it. To address the difference...
LA SALA / AJUNTAMENT

LA SALA / AJUNTAMENT

(TOWN HALL)
The present building in neo-Gothic style evolved in the course of an extensive refurbishment, carried out from 1885 to 1892 on the original, 17th-century structure. In 1891 the architect Pere d'Alcàntara Penya took over the renovation project. The fact that the building meets neo-Gothic concepts, both stylistically and structurally, supports the hypothesis that the involvement of this architect was crucial, because it is in line with the historical tendency of this Mallorcan master, usually implemented in his buildings such as the Sant Alfons church in Felanitx or the Sant Felip Neri...
SA TIMBA

SA TIMBA

Next to the parish church, facing the main street Carrer Major, since the 16th century there had been a high embankment, called Sa Timba. On 31 March 1844, Palm Sunday, the twelve-sermons or Stations of the Cross procession began, as usual, at five o'clock in the afternoon. A large crowd gathered on the embankment, and, unfortunately, the supporting structure was not strong enough: Sa Timba collapsed under the weight of the people. 422 people died. A hundred years later, in 1944, at the same place and with the help of the sculptor Joan Maimó, the people of Felanitx built a monument to...
BANC DE FELANITX

BANC DE FELANITX

(Bank of Felanitx)
This is the old bank of Felanitx on the market street. It was founded in 1883 as a joint stock company with a capital of 636,500 pesetas, constituted with 1,273 shares of 500 pesetas each. For the first fourteen years, its headquarters were located in the premises of the Institute of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce (Ateneu d’agricultura, indústria y comerç) in Can Manuel d'es Sitjar, where they had also planned to found the bank. The first chairman was Miquel Reus Bennàsser, from 1883 to 1917. In 1897 the bank moved into its own building on the market...
PLAÇA S'ARRAVAL

PLAÇA S'ARRAVAL

This square's present character dates back to a series of transformations of the town in the 19th century. The Plaça de s'Arraval probably owes its origin to the presence of groundwater. As early as the 15th century, a well is mentioned at this place. We also know that in the 18th century the square was already surrounded by several houses. After its reconstruction in the 19th century, when the existing fountains were filled in, they built the stone obelisk with the water taps which today can still be seen in the centre of the square. In 1879 the master stonemasons Mateu Togores and...
ESGLÉSIA DE SANT ALFONS

ESGLÉSIA DE SANT ALFONS

(The St. Alphonsus' church)
The hospice, not to be confused with the hospital, was established in 1820, in order to comply with an order of the Cortes (Courts) of Cadiz, which decreed to construct buildings to house the poor. We know that, at least in 1828, it was run by the Sisters of Charity, who cared for the poor and needy. After 1883, the town's hospital was located in same building as the hospice. Thus, both institutions were associated with each other. The church of Sant Alfons, originally built as the chapel of the hospice premises, experienced an extensive expansion between 1878 and 1881, providing it with...
ES SINDICAT

ES SINDICAT

(WINEMAKING COOPERATIVE)
This industrial building, used for wine production and distribution, is a good example of the important role of the wine trade in the second decade of the 20th century in Mallorca, after phylloxera had destroyed all the vineyards on the island. The building was constructed between 1920 and 1922, according to the project of the Mallorcan architect Guillem Forteza. For the construction, they used the typical materials of industrial architecture, such as concrete or cement, combined with natural stone. The vaulting system in its interior, which combines pointed and parabolic arches, is...
CEMENTIRI DE FELANITX

CEMENTIRI DE FELANITX

(THE CEMETERY OF FELANITX)
Construction work on the Felanitx cemetery began in 1814 and to this day it was extended several times. During the second extension in 1930, the main entrance and the façade of the cemetery were built in a modernist style, the work of the architect Francesc Roca i Simó. In 1969, the religious congregation Germans Fossers (Merciful Brotherhood of Morticians), a community that attended to the care and maintenance of the cemeteries, established at the cemetery. This congregation brought great appreciation to the burials as well as the buildings, graves and gardens. This is...
ESTACIÓ ENOLÒGICA

ESTACIÓ ENOLÒGICA

(THE OENOLOGICAL INSTITUTE)
The construction of this building in 1913 by the Town Council reflects the need to modernise and promote viticulture, after its crisis at the end of the 19th century. Hence, it provided training and was used for agricultural experiments in the field of viticulture. The design was commissioned to the agronomist Antoni Ballester, but Arnest Mestre, later the director of the institute, may also have been involved in the project. The building is situated on the Passeig Ramon Llull promenade and fits into the historicist style, which was still present in the first decades of the 20th century. At...
COL·LECCIÓ MUSEOGRÀFICA FUNDACIÓ COSME BAUÇÀ

COL·LECCIÓ MUSEOGRÀFICA FUNDACIÓ COSME BAUÇÀ

(THE MUSEUM COLLECTION FUNDACIÓ COSME BAUÇÀ)
The museum collection Fundació Cosme Bauçà was established following Msgr. Cosme Bauçà's will (Felanitx, 1871-1959) to convert his house (called Es Molí d'en Bono) into a museum and a library, and to spread the history and culture of Felanitx in particular and Mallorca in general. That is why, in the same year that he died, he bequeathed his house and a large part of his possessions (works of art, books and manuscripts) to the town of Felanitx, in order for his initiative to become reality. The most important collection of Sa Fundació is the...