On Mallorca, find it has more than 11 million visitors each year.

Weather
The Majorcan climate is typically Mediterranean, with high temperatures in summer (up from 30 ° C) and moderately low in winter (rarely below 5 ° C). Snowfall is common in winter in the highest peaks of the Sierra de Tramontana but exceptional in the plain and the capital. Being an island, the humidity is very high.

Food
One of the most popular dishes is the fried Mallorcan (Majorcan frit), which is a liver fried with potatoes and peppers, can be blood and / or offal from sheep, pig or even a sailor. It should also make mention of the Mallorcan soups, tumbet, loin with cabbage or esclatasang (more tasty variety rovellones found in the Iberian Peninsula), and stuffed eggplant. There are various ways of preparing rice, the most typical arròs is called brut, which is a rice with mushrooms, snails, pork, rabbit and poultry. The pa amb oli, typical of some dinners, is also in the regional dish of the island. The sausages are also one of the main elements of its cuisine, spicy sausage, butifarrón, blanquet camaiot and others.

At family meals and meetings generally do porcella typical roasted diced potatoes seasoned with herbs from the island, such as rosemary. The salad is usually eaten in summer or the porcella, is known as trempó and is made with tomato, onion and green pepper.

Cakes and pastries

The sweet ensaimada excellence is often taken at breakfast, but also family size are filled with cream, pumpkin, chocolate or sobrasada. In essential Easter pies, stuffed with lamb, though the rest of year are also pork and peas, tuna or sobrasada. Pulp can be made sweet or salty, but are most common in salt paste. Are also typical and robiols crespells, traditionally filled with ricotta, pumpkin jam and jelly. It is also very common vegetable called coca, made of traps or roasted red peppers, along with cocarolls, which are a kind of pies crescent filled with vegetables and raisins.

Mallorcan wines are having good reception in other parts of Spain and Europe in recent years. Mallorca has two Appellation: DO D.O. Binissalem-Mallorca Pla i Llevant, as well as a geographical indication Vino de la Tierra Mallorca.

Economy
View of the bay of Santa Ponsa with Galatzó mountain in the background.
Creek west coast of Mallorca (Sa Calobra).

The two main drivers of the economy are tourism and construction, having relegated to the background to the industry (leather, footwear, furniture, pottery, beads, jewelry) and the primary sector (agriculture, livestock, fisheries, mining ), while local governments are striving to diversify the economy lately Mallorca enhancing other sectors. In this sense Mallorcan hospitality industries are among the first in Spain and even the world. The locations that pose the greatest number of tourists are among the municipality of Calvia (the region of pariaje), particularly in the tourist resort of Magaluf, followed part of the beach of Palma de Mallorca known as El Arenal and the area of ​​Alcudia. In 2008 many of the old farmhouses have been converted Mallorcan hotel in rural tourism establishments, such as Borowski Son (where you can see a canal system and the real Arab watchtower of the property, dating from the century XIV.) although many others, such as small Porrassa continue farming as a mansion house and its owners.

One of the bays of the island with some international rename consists vells Portals to the cove from The Wizard which owes its name to a movie that was filmed there in 1967 with Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Michael Caine as protagonists. [6] In principle, the film should be shot in Greece, but the coup happened there, made the production mudase stage and the new location was chosen Mallorca. Crumbled film criticism with praise for the beautiful place in the Aegean until an immigrant Spaniard wrote to the publications to show that in fact it was a Majorcan beach and not a place in Greece.

Mallorcan wines are having good reception in other parts of Spain and Europe in recent years. Mallorca has two Appellation: DO And D.O. BINISSALEM-MALLORCA I LLEVANT PLA, as well as a geographical indication Vino de la Tierra Mallorca.

In an effort to promote the destination to the island, the company Monarch Airlines has installed a huge artificial beach in one of the central squares of the city of Birmingham, England. [7] [8] The initiative is propelled Monarch first of its kind ever conducted in the second largest city in England. The assembly is chaired by a Spanish flag and visitors can listen to flamenco, the chairs and tables have been installed for pedestrians to rest and enjoy.

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