Alaior

Alaior ( Alayor Castilian ) is a municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Menorca.

On 1 January 2013 lived 9769 inhabitants in the municipality, of which in 2008, 7257 in the main town of the same name. Alaior located 12 km from the island's capital, Mahon removed. The highest point of the municipality municipal seat is occupied by the parish church of Santa Eulalia. The most important tourist centers in the municipal area are all located in the coastal area of the municipality Alaior on the south coast of Menorca. There are the Son Bou, Sant Jaume, Torre Solí Nou (the three above are spatially related complex), Cala en Porter and Cales Coves.

Alaior is known primarily for the manufacture of shoes and cheese. One of the most successful shoe brands in Spain, Pons Quintana, has its origin in Alaior. Even today, there are shoes made ​​by hand, with Pons Quintana is known for its intricately woven shoes.

The Queso de Mahon actually comes from Alaior, here are the two largest producers, Coinga and La Payesa its registered office. In the countryside of Alaior and other communities intensive cattle management, milk derived therefrom is processed in part or by the farmers themselves to cheese. His name Mahon -Menorca cheese ( Queso de Mahon ), the cheese from the port of Mahon, because it was exported in the past, especially from here by boat all over the world.

The Spanish brand La MENORQUINA ice cream was also founded in Alaior, but now it is part of an International Group and the production takes place on the mainland.

Towns

The community Alaior has eight locations, including the actual, same municipality main resort, which combines 78 percent of the community population at:

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Son Bou, Sant Jaume and Torre Solí Nou form a cohesive holiday resort on the south coast, where one of the longest sandy beaches of Menorca, of the 2.5 km long Playa de Son Bou is located. A resort further east along the coast is Cala en Porter.

The town of Cales Coves is not on the bay ( this is not inhabited ), but about 1,900 yards inland on the road to the bay ( Caminou de Cales Coves ).

Places of History

In the southwest of the municipality on the beach of Son Bou are the remains of the early Christian basilica of Son Bou.

Nearly seven Kiloemeter east of it on the bay Cales Coves is the necropolis Cales Coves with 90 artificial burial caves from dertalayotischen Bronze Age ( 1200-750 BC) and in the subsequent Iron Age ( 750-123 BC).