This is what we do… Sollerweb was born 18 months ago and the roller coaster of events has been so breathtaking that sometimes we have to force ourselves to stop and take stock. Tracey Ivell, web designer of this parish bought the web name ‘Sollerweb’ in 2007 and knew one day when she would use…
T The war games of a Mallorcan tycoon How business magnate Juan March played off the Allies and Germans in WWI to grow his empire MANUEL MORALES 20 AGO 2014 – 13:47 CEST Recomendar en Facebook6 Twittear15 Enviar a LinkedIn0 Enviar a TuentiEnviar a Eskup EnviarImprimirGuardar Multi-millionaire businessman Juan March in Estoril, Portugal, in 1943. / CAN VERGA…
The Batucada – The Sound of Soller in 2014 A year ago the music of the BATUCADA burst on to the Soller scene. Street music, party music and much more. The simple definition of Batucada would be a percussion jam session, but that doesn’t begin to describe the awesome power a tight ensemble is capable…
A PLETHORA OF FIESTAS Late August and early September bring the FIESTA season of the HIDDEN VALLEY to a climax. The following dates for your diary should be entered in red. This is the wildest time of the year and the momentum builds until the autumn days begin to arrive and the summer subsides. 15,16…
Have a visit and immerse yourself in a cultural oasis in Palma… Elena Castillo creates her beautiful works from her studio in Soller. Her sculptures and artwork appear in collections worldwide… Such talent in our world “The Garden of Gethsemane” is a new cycle of paintings by Ilya Gaponov, consisting of large-scale multi-figure compositions. The…
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…
By Soller Shirley Yes, different rules do apply ‘Queuing in Spain looks different. Instead of standing around uncomfortably in a line shuffling forward every few minutes like robots, in Spain you simply ask who the last person was to enter the establishment, then sit back and relax. When that person has been served, you know…
New York , Los Angeles and Soller The journey of Don Krim – Counter Tenor To chat with Don Krim in Soller square is like so many Hidden Valley conversations. A meeting of interesting, eccentric people who have fallen in love with Soller and all it has to offer and is the tie that…
Here comes 2017 in Soller Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 A tidy weekend of New Year celebrations and then it was back to work for the hundreds who are on a mission here in the Soller Valley. The ten month season…
By Shirley Roberts Do you remember the day when pounds, shillings and pence gave way to decimalisation? Overnight maths lessons changed, and all that learning was confined to history. Do you remember those typing lessons on manual typewriters which gave way to electric and then to computers? Do you remember using Tippex to correct typing…
