Issue No. 1966 9 - 15 March 2023
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TWO Spanish beaches are among the best in the world according to TripAdvisor and one of them is in Mallor ca. The online travel guide has published this year’s Trav ellers’ Choice awards, re warding the favourite desti nations, hotels, restaurants and activities among users, based on scores and opin ions uploaded onto the site over the last 12 months. And within the beaches category, Spain has once again hit the jackpot, with two names among the top 25 on a list headed by the spectacular Baia do Sancho in Brazil. La Concha in Donostia (Basque Country) comes in at number 15, followed just two places below by Mallor ca’s very own Playa de Muro in 17th place. This is the second time running that Muro has made the top 25 world list, and cu riously in exactly the same spot. “A wonderful beach with golden sand, clear blue sea and not very deep to have a lukewarm swim and get out again easily,” states the re view on the website. But narrowing down the search to Europe, La Concha and Muro occupy the fourth and fifth places respectively, with a second Balearic beach appearing in ninth place Playa de Sotavento in Costa Calma, Fuerteventura.
Playa de Muro beach.
THE BBC is preparing to film the third season of its hit series The Mallorca Files on the island this month. Starring Welsh actress Elen Rhys, Austrian actor Julian Looman and Spanish actress and theatre direc tor Maria Fernandez, the first instalment of the British police drama was watched by an estimated six million viewers in 70 countries in 2019, with fig ures increasing for the sec ond season now screening. The CSIstyled drama fol lows Rhys and Looman as a pair of detectives with to tally opposing characters and working methods as they attempt to solve a se ries of crimes on the island. With viewers through out the world following the team’s exploits, Mal lorca is enjoying unrivalled exposure and promotion thanks to the series, lead ing to curious anecdotes such the Mallorca Film Commission reporting an avalanche of calls from the Tokyo tourism authorities requesting information about the island as Japanese fans sought to travel to Mallorca to visit the scenes appearing on screen. This prompted the cre ation of a map detailing five routes through the various exterior locations used in the series for en thusiasts to visit. The Mallorca Files has so far had a direct economic impact on the island of more than €11 million.
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Life’s a THE MALLORCA FILES March 8 division beach Image by Zixia/Shutterstock
WOMEN’S DAY: The march in Palma was split in two.
THIS year’s International Women’s Day march in Palma was split in two. The recent approval of the ‘trans law’ by the central govern ment has divided the movement. While the main demonstra tion on Wednesday March 8)was organised once again by the Mallorca Feminist Movement, with other organisations and po litical parties joining up later, a second march was scheduled by the 8M Transfeminist Coordinator, who believe they are being excluded by the socalled ‘classic’ feminists. The trans law is just the latest in a series of heated debates taking place within feminism, added to ongoing discussions about whether to legalise or abolish prostitution and the ‘only yes means yes’ law currently passing through the Spanish parlia ment.
BBC HIT: The third season is being filmed this month.