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Insight Guide Mallorca and Ibiza Menorca: Menorca & Formentera (INSIGHT GUIDES MALLORCA)
One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,
Insight Guide Mallorca & Ibiza. This 314-page book includes a section
detailing Mallorca and Ibiza's history, 10 features covering aspects of the
islands' life and culture, ranging from the burgeoning expatriate community
to the famously hedonistic nightlife, a region by region visitor's guide to
the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential
contact addresses and numbers. Plus many high quality photographs and 13
maps.
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The Rough Guide to Mallorca (Rough Guides)
Few Mediterranean holiday spots are as often and as unfairly maligned as
Mallorca. The largest of the Balearic Islands, an archipelago to the east of
the Spanish mainland which also comprises Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera,
Mallorca is commonly perceived as little more than sun, sex, booze and high-rise
hotels – so much so that there’s a long-standing Spanish joke about a
mythical fifth Balearic island called "Majorca" (the English spelling) which
is inhabited by an estimated eight million tourists a year. However, this
image, spawned by the helter-skelter development of the 1960s, takes no
account of Mallorca’s beguiling diversity.
Until well into the twentieth century, Mallorca was a sleepily agrarian
backwater, left behind in the Spanish dash to exploit the Americas from the
sixteenth century onwards. Mass tourism has reversed the island’s fortunes
since World War II, bringing the highest level of disposable income per
capita in Spain, but the price has been profound social transformation and
the disfigurement of tracts of the coastal landscape. However, the spread of
development is surprisingly limited, essentially confined to the Bay of
Palma, a thirty-kilometre strip flanking the island capital, and a handful
of mega-resorts notching the east coast. Elsewhere, Mallorca is much less
developed than many other parts of Spain.
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