Felanitx

Felanitx is a municipality in the east of the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca. It has 17 359 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 15.9 % ( 2,697 ), the proportion of German population 4.3% ( 730). The eponymous main town lies to the west at the foot of the mountain range of " Serres de Llevant ". Other villages are scattered on the nearly 170 -acre municipal area. Of particular note is the harbor town of Porto Colom.

Felanitx is the birthplace of the visual artist Miquel Barceló Artigues and Guillem Sagrera sculptor, builder and architect of the Gothic.

A few kilometers south-east of the village of Felanitx is located on the mountain Puig de Sant Salvador monastery, the Sanctuary of Sant Salvador, founded in 1342, and to another mountain peaks of the Serres de Llevant the ruins of Castell de Santueri.

Places in the municipality

To the municipality of Felanitx include the following locations:

  • Ca's Concos of Cavaller ( 436/941 inhabitants)
  • Cala Ferrera ( 254/254 inhabitants)
  • Cala Serena ( 171/171 inhabitants, is immediately adjacent to Cala d' Or)
  • It Carritxó (- / 184 inhabitants)
  • Felanitx (9878/9878 inhabitants)
  • Porto Colom (4184/4240 inhabitants)
  • Horta (601/1253 inhabitants)
  • Son Mesquida (- / 304 inhabitants)
  • Son Negre (- / 242 inhabitants)
  • Son Proenç (- / 314 inhabitants)
  • Son Valls (- / 188 inhabitants)

The inhabitants numbers in parentheses 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 )

Weekly market

Every Sunday morning there is a weekly market.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Miquel Barceló ( b. 1957 ) - Spanish painter and sculptor
  • Simón Febrer Serra (1895-1989) - cyclist
  • Jaume Antoni Obrador i Soler (1748-1803) - Spanish theologian and priest
  • Antoni Peña (born 1970 ) - Spanish long-distance runner
  • Guillem Sagrera (1380-1456) - Spanish sculptor, builder and architect of the Gothic
  • Guillermo Timoner (1926 ) - Cyclists
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