Mallorca 16 - 22 June 2022 Issue 1928

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11,000 VISIT BOOK FESTIVAL Tamsin Brown

ON June 11 and 12, the town of Manacor turned into the literary capital of the Catalan‐speaking terri‐ tories when it became a ‘Book Town’ (Vila dell Lli‐ bre), the first such publish‐ ing festival to be held in the Balearic Islands. The total number of visi‐ tors to the Book Town was approximately 11,000 with all of the activities at full capacity. More than 80 creators from the world of books al‐ so visited Manacor, includ‐ ing authors, illustrators and artists from various disci‐ plines. The publishing sector ob‐ tained very positive results from the festival in terms

Manacor’s book festival was a huge success with fantastic levels of participation.

of sales and the public showed significant interest in books and the publishing industry. The festival served as a meeting point for professionals from Mal‐

lorca and Catalonia who work in the field. The Vila del Llibre filled every corner of the old town of Manacor with liter‐ ature with the aim of en‐

couraging people to read more and of creating a new space where social ties could be constructed through a participatory cul‐ tural project.

THE Consell de Mallorca has provided €5,975,000 to local town halls to improve the universal accessibility of public facilities and buildings, especially children’s playgrounds. Since 2018, a total of 213 actions have been carried out to improve accessibility in all the municipalities of Mallorca. This was explained on Tuesday June 14 by the councillor for Economic Promotion and Local Devel‐ opment, Jaume Alzamora, who said: “never before, and in such a short space of time, has such a large amount of work been carried out.”

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ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS

Significant improvements have been made to accessibility throughout Mallorca.

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Issue No. 1928

The International Music Festival in Santanyi will host some very highly acclaimed musicians.

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC IN SANTANYI THE arrival of summer means that it is time for Santanyi’s In‐ ternational Music Festival, which is now in its 12th year. Mu‐ sic will once again be the protagonist of the town’s cultural programme over the next few months. This year’s programme includes five concerts between June and October. The first concert, by the mezzo‐soprano Lorena Valero and the pianist Miquel Estelrich, has already taken place. There will now be performances from the tenor Eduardo Sandoval, the Santanyi Festival Orchestra, the Manel Camp Quartet, the tenor Uwe Stickert, the horn player José Fran‐ cisco Fortea, the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands and Olivier Latry, the titular organist of Notre‐Dame de Paris. For more information, visit the town hall website at ajsantanyi.net.