This is a landmark… By Shirley Roberts Photograph by Rachel Fox This article, once published to the Tramuntana section of the sollerweb website, will be a game changer. Not because the prose and spellings will be 100% but because we enter the ZONE. When Soller Shirley Facebook page came into existence 8 years ago it…
Soller celebrates art, football, music and lifePublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletin onTuesday 26th August 2014Photograph by the Es Moli Hotel who sponsor CF SOLLER The football pitch of Soller is called Camp d’en Maiol and has stood at the heart of Soller for over 100 years. The club is at the heart of so…
Nick Campion – Astrologer of our parish… Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Sunday 2nd October 2016 By Shirley Roberts Photographs by Mike McDowall The Soller Valley is awash with interesting people who turn up and stay. Nick Campion in one such who had never been to Majorca before when he was invited to…
MUSIC FOR MILK was amazingPublished in the Majorca Daily Bulletinon Sunday 14th August 2016Photographs by RACHEL FOX On Wednesday 10th August 2016 a Pop Up Concert took place in Soller. From the original idea to performance took 5 days and we had a great time. Sollerweb is the information source for the Soller Valley and…
Agustin Risco and the Es Moli Hotel in Deia Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinSunday 16th October 2016 Fifty years ago the village of Deia was alive and contributing to all the arts. Music, poetry, writing, sculpture, archaeology and much more were thriving in this mountain retreat. The accessibility of Deia meant that once people…
Today I bring you the pictures taken by Gary Lloyd Rees, a regular swallow from Canada who usually join us annually. Kate and Gary are a lovely couple who bring a great camera and add to the Soller Valley photographic collection each year. They have an interesting story to tell and are honorary Sollerics. We are…
A glimpse of the past in the Port of Soller that is rarely seen. Story courtesy of the Cultural Association of the Port of Soller A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OCCUPATION OF A PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEANTHE PORT DE SÓLLER, The Naval Base in the Port occupied all the port installations, the Oratory of Santa…
Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 20th May 2014 What a week – the glory of the Firo was threatened by the great and the good having a bit of a fall out. The problem is to do with the speed of action of the Town council. Speed is not usually a word…
The moon shines bright on Soller tonightPublished in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 9th September 2014Photograph by RACHEL FOXThis has been the summer of the brightest moons in memory. We have another tonight and it will fill the Hidden Valley in a spectacular way. There is nothing like that moon exploding from behind the mountains and…
For many years now, Catalina Trías has been running a night-time sewing workshop in Sóller aimed at making peasant dresses. An always full workshop. The participants in one of the night groups that started this month. From left to right: Trinidad Morell, Remedios Mas, Laura Rodríguez, Ángeles Muñoz, Francisca Rosselló, Catalina Trias and Bea Borràs….
