Sant LlorenÃ§ des Cardassar

Sant Llorenç des Cardassar ( Castilian: San Lorenzo de Cardessar ) is a municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca. The small town of the same name is the administrative seat of the municipality in the region ( comarca ) Llevant.

3.1 Structures
3.2 Beaches and bays of the municipal area
3.3 Fixed

4.1 Sheep and goat farming

5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Located on the main road MA -15 from Manacor towards Arta, 54 kilometers from Palma, the community is bordered on the west by the region of Es Pla, and to the east by the sea. The municipal area includes a part of the tourist resort of Cala Millor and Sa Coma places, Son Carrio and S'Illot.

Statistical data

The municipality has an area of 82 km ² and had on 1 January 2013 a population of 7857 inhabitants reported. This corresponds to a population density of 96 persons per km ². In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 27.2 % ( 2.107), the proportion of the German population 14.0 % ( 1,083 ). The average altitude of the municipality is 203 meters.

Places in the municipality

The municipality of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar include the following locations:

Sa Coma (2762/2776 inhabitants)
Sant Llorenç des Cardassar (2972/3489 inhabitants)
S'Illot ( 199/235 inhabitants)
Son Carrio (656/1106 inhabitants)
Son Moro ( 679/751 inhabitants)
Son Moro Bonavista ( 110/110 inhabitants)

(Son and Son Moro Moro Bonavista today are also expected to place Cala Millor )

The population figures in brackets are from 1 January 2008. The first number indicates the inhabitants of the built-up areas where the second number the inhabitants of places including the addition to computing " scattered " population living outside the actual settlements. (Source: INE )

History

The municipality of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar was inhabited in prehistoric times by people. Excavations evidence of a settlement, beginning around 2000 BC Of the 70 localities are cataloged here following the vortalaiotischen culture and Talaiot culture called, lying on the municipality of Sant Llorenç: Calicant, Can i Roig Torre Nova, Can Tafal, Ca s'Hereu, de l' epoca talaiòtica, Els de talaiots Calicant, Infern Vell, Les coves de n 'Amer Ca, Na Pol ( Sa Coma ), Poblat Talaiòtic de S'Illot, Colomer Pou Vell, Sat Blanquera, Sa Coma, Sa real, Sa Talaia, Sat Vaca i Ses Voltes, Ses Planes, talaies Ses, Ses Toltes, Son Barbot, Son Negre, Son Puca.

Only from the late Roman period, there are some records which also provide information about the sonorous name of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, which was retained in the Moorish period. The nickname of the Cardassar were granted to the place only after the Reconquista. When James I and his army occupied the island, there was on a field near Sant Llorenç to recognize a Madonna figure, which had been hiding during the reign of the Gentiles in thistle bushes. The miraculous discovery of the Mare de Deu dels cards, the "Thistle Madonna ," gave the place its sonorous epithets his spiky addition of the Cardassar ( in German: " at the thistles ").

In the early 13th century, the church of Santa Maria del Bellver was built in honor of the Madonna, was worshiped in the Sant Llorenç. The parish of the same name was in a bull of Pope Innocent IV mentioned. The place was then known as Santa Maria del Bellver Bellver only, although Sant Llorenç de Bellver ( 1349 ) and Sant Llorenç documented the Cardessar ( 1519). The parish church of Sant Lorenc is first mentioned in the Chronicle in 1236; The current building dates from 1654. Noteworthy is the left side chapel of the Madonna of the Rosary with the statue of the "Mare de Deu Trobada ".

The location of Son Carrio was only in the second half of the 19th century by parcelling near the old chapel of Son Torell. At Son Torell as well as Sa Gruta, Es Rafal de sa Riba, Son Berga, It Molinet and Boscarró It originated 1885-1893 several farms. Son Carrio was in 1879 still Sant Miquel. The parish church of the town, designed by the architect Antoni Maria Alcover, was completed in 1907.

By the year 1892, the municipality of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar to Manacor belonged. At the time of attainment of independence from agriculture, small industry of carpentry works and the craft of embroidery were the main economic activities of the now independent municipality. In 1948, the approval of the subdivision of Ca de n 'Amer S'Illot, which took from 1959 town-like character. The onset of tourism designed both the economic structure, as well as the landscape, especially on the coast, completely around. After the 1965 made allotment of Son Moro, the southern part of Cala Millor, today is the Punta de n 'Amer peninsula the only undeveloped coastal strip of the community.

Culture and sights

Structures

Poblat Talaiòtic de S'Illot

Beaches and bays of the municipal area

Cala Millor ( Platja de Sant Llorenç )
Son Moro ( Platja de Sant Llorenç )
Platja de Cala Nau
Platja de Cala Moreia.

Festivals

Feast of the Mother of God found on 8 August

Economy and infrastructure

Agriculture in the primarily used in drywall cultivated fields was the main source of income of the inhabitants. The Arab domination brought progress in Bewässerungsbau, thus also the irrigated farming prevailed.

Although also the craft, such as Müller, weavers, blacksmith and carpenter moved on, but until the 19th century dominated agriculture. In the 20th century, only small businesses came as an art embroidery. 1930 and 1950, an electricity plant in Son Carrio was built in 1921 brought the line Manacor - Arta the train to Sant Llorenç and Son Carrio. The line was operated until 1977.

In the 1960s, the service sector urged the agriculture back rapidly. The fields and fields were abandoned, but instead originated in Cala Millor one of the major centers of tourism in Mallorca. In the 1980s, then Sa Coma developed into a major European destination. The lying between the two towns of Punta de n 'Amer remained undeveloped and was declared a nature reserve of particular value.

Today services, especially in the tourism sector and the construction sector are the main economic activities of the community.

Sheep and goat farming

That is just the Madonna scrub the thistle has chosen, is not surprising. Because at the edge of the Levante with its foothills of the Serres de Llevant ( mountain range ) has always grown in the fields, almonds, wheat, chickpeas and beans. In the fields at the foot of the Serra de Llevant the farmer and landowner bred since the 14th century, sheep and goat ( cabra mallorqui ).

These breeds are extremely effective custodians of the countryside, as long as they graze there, where they do not eat up people's harvest, but very frugal the thistles that are scorned by the other quadrupeds, be limited. Until the 19th century it was normal to keep herds of up to 600 sheep. Can still see the water in the poor area without mortar built stone huts with immediately adjacent basins Marès soft stone or the condition following natural stone troughs called Cocos. The wool and the meat was sold all over the island in the numerous markets.

The cabra Mallorcan goats, against the urge to explore there is no cure, keep the thistles short and are usually free in the mountains on the way. In the evening they are then collected by the herdsmen. The goat cheese is a standard product of the kitchen in Mallorca.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Margarita Fullana (born 1972 ), cyclist and three-time World Mountain Bike Champion

Documents

Sant Llorenç des Cardassar ( Ayuntamiento / Consell de Mallorca)

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