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 the 422 people who lost their lives and thus became part the history of Felanitx.

Death songs, verses and romances were composed, which are now part of the town's folk songbook. One of them, attributed to Madò Meravella, says:

El dia del Ram a vespre, That Palm Sunday's eve,

Felanitx estava trist; Felanitx was in mourning:

no es trobava casa oberta there was not one house

que no hi hagués mort o ferit . without any dead or injured to weep for.