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Gabriel Escarrer dies
2024年11月26日 · In 1956, Gabriel Escarrer Juliá was only 21 years old when he founded what is now Meliá Hotels International, acquiring and managing a 60-room hotel on Majorca, where he was born, and where his company still maintains its headquarters of what was to become one of the most successful hotel companies in the world. One of the high points in the history of the company took place in the 80s, when ...
What caused deadly floods in Spain? The impact of DANA explained
2024年10月31日 · When cold air blows over warm Mediterranean waters it causes hotter air to rise quickly and form dense, water-laden clouds that can remain over the same area for many hours, raising their destructive potential. The event sometimes provokes large hail storms and tornadoes as seen this week, meteorologists say.. Eastern and Southern Spain are particularly susceptible to the phenomenon due to its ...
7.5 million visitors will pay a higher Balearic tourist tax in 2025
2024年10月3日 · The Partido Popular, the party of government, did once propose a scrapping of the tax in the low season.Given the potential amounts - less than one euro at most - the relatively few numbers of visitors and the costs of administration, there is perhaps an argument for doing away with the tax from December to February.
Stormy weather in Mallorca
2024年10月28日 · The heavy storm has also forced the following roads to be closed: MA-2203 at KM 2.2, MA-2200, MA-4015 from Manacor to Calas (impassable at kilometer 3), MA-15 from Manacor to Sant Llorenç near the radar, MA-3321 in Manacor, MA-19 from Santanyí to Campos, MA-6040 from Campos to Porreres (between kilometers 3 and 9), and both MA-3200 and MA-3201 (Montuïri to Pina).
Big fines for Spanish airlines
2024年11月22日 · The highest penalty is for Ryanair with 107,775,777 euros, followed by Vueling, with 39,264,412 euros; Easyjet, with 29,094,441 euros; Norwegian, with 1,610,001 euros, and Volotea with 1,189,000 euros, according to ministry sources.The appeals lodged by these companies have also been dismissed. The fines are calculated based on the “illicit profit” made by the airlines from these practices.
Mallorca Covid spike - Majorca Daily Bulletin
2024年6月21日 · The Balearics have been experiencing a “significant spike” in cases of coronavirus over the past seven or eight weeks.. “We are in a wave, so to speak”, although “close to the peak”. The head of the Microbiology Service at Son Espases Hospital in Palma, Dr Antonio Oliver, also pointed today (Friday) out that the current number of cases is higher than those recorded in the winter ...
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It’s official The Mallorca Files is back - Majorca Daily Bulletin
2024年6月6日 · After months of speculation and anticipation, Amazon has this afternoon confirmed that the third season of The Mallorca Files will hit global screens on August 8. Today, Prime Video announced the feel-good detective drama The Mallorca Files, is returning with Season Three premiering on August 8. The all-new season will be made available to Prime Video customers in select territories around the ...
Spain floods: 95 killed
2024年10月30日 · 92 of the dead are in the Valencia region, two in Albacete (Castile-La Mancha) and one in the Malaga province of Andalusia. Meteorologists said a year's rain had fallen in the space of eight hours in parts of Valencia, battering farms in a region responsible for almost two-thirds of citrus fruit grown in Spain, one of the globe's top producers.Denis Hlavaty told how he had spent the night ...