Llucmajor

The municipality of Llucmajor (Catalan Llucmajor; Spanish Lluchmayor ) is geographically the largest of the Balearic Mediterranean island of Mallorca. It has 37,257 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) and an area of 327 km ², equivalent to 114 inhabitants per km ².

In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 17.0 % ( 5324 ), the proportion of ( registered ) German inhabitants 5.7% (1802 ).

• 3.1 Market

Places in the municipality

To this municipality include the following locations:

• Badia Blava (1733/1733 inhabitants)
• Badia Gran (1980/1980 inhabitants)
• Bella Vista ( 366/366 inhabitants)
• Cala Blava ( 350/350 inhabitants)
• Cala Pi ( 316/546 inhabitants) There Pas de Vallgornera (148 inhabitants)
• Vallgornera Nou (82 inhabitants)

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 )

Llucmajor

Llucmajor (Spanish: Lluchmayor ) is a small town on the Balearic Mediterranean island of Mallorca and is the administrative center of the homonymous municipality. The city is located about 15 kilometers southeast of Palma airport to feet (about 4 kilometers south-west ) of the Puig de Randa on the highway leading towards Palma Santanyi. Since the place is also located about 15 kilometers from the coast, it is not touristy.

The municipality extends to the entire south coast of Arenal directly at the Platja de Palma to S'Estanyol to the limit of the municipality of Campos and the south coast. The coastal area of Llucmajor is characterized by a rugged cliff with partly narrow coves ( Cala Pi, Cala Blava ).

History

The artificial caves of Son Hereu, Llucamet, S'Aguila, Son Cardell, Bennoc, Son Mandivil or Son Mulet date from the third millennium BC, and served his time, apparently as burial places of the settlers communities. Later, in the second millennium BC, the megalithic culture of Talayots arose. Remains of the settlement Capocorb Vell in the south of Llucmajor are the best known witnesses to the Bronze Age.

Within the study of the history Capocorb Vell is considered unique because the settlement is remarkably well preserved. This circumstance is due undoubtedly to the fact that Capocorb Vell is situated in a part of the community whose economic productivity can be classified as rather small. The settlement was explored by archaeologists Ch Watelin (France ) and Albert Mayr ( Germany ).

Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans left their mark until the introduction of Christianity. Only a damaged grave stone from La Marina with the place name " Egnatuleia " has been preserved from this period.

The first church was built in Llucmajor 1259. 1300 survey on the "Villa " by Jaume II of Mallorca. The most important historical event in connection with the place is the Battle of Llucmajor, in the Pedro IV in 1349 the Mallorcan King Jaume III. , His cousin, defeated and thus the self Mallorcan monarchy ceased to exist. Jaume fell on the north-eastern front of the city battlefield. He was initially buried in the parish church of the village. Today his grave is in the Cathedral of Palma.

1543 Charles V granted the town the right to hold a market on Wednesdays and Fridays.

In the 20th century Llucmajor developed into a center of shoemaking and so came to some prosperity.

Attractions

• Ayuntamiento (Town Hall in Plaça d' Espanya )
• Church of San Miguel in the 18th century at the Placa de Santa Catalina Tomás west Plaça d' Espanya.
• Monument to James III. on Passeig Jaume III. ( Paseo de Jaime III. )
• Monument to the shoemaker south of the marketplace on Carrer del Bisbe Taixequet south of the center.

Market

In Llucmajor is on three weekdays Market: Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. By 2008, the market always ( Ayuntamiento ) was held in the town square ( Plaça d' Espanya ) in front of the town hall and flea market on Fridays further down the Esplanade Jaume III. at the Monument of the Fallen in 1349 King James III. As part of a restructuring program of the municipalities in the Balearic these places, however, were 2009/2010 extensively renovated and remodeled. Likewise, the historical fish market on Placa d' Espanya was gutted and thoroughly renovated after she fell unused for many years. The renovated fish market hall now houses some departments of the municipality, including the tourist office. The square in front of the Ayuntamiento was completed in 2010 and is now car-free zone, which is why the fruit and vegetable market at times could no longer take place there. Meanwhile, he again takes place on the square in front of the Ayuntamiento. Due to the elimination of through traffic now have expanded their outdoor seating all lying on the marketplace cafes. Up to modernize the Plaça Espanya, the guests had been pushing for just a few chairs on the purpose too narrow walkways. The square is now increasingly chosen by cyclists as a target, especially as the level to Llucmajor has a well-developed bike trails network. The flea market takes place every Friday after renovation now back on the Esplanade Jaume III. instead. On Fridays, the market thus pulls through half the city passed by the City Council ( Ayuntamiento ) on the Placa d' Espanya on the Carrer del Bisbe Taixequet and the Paseo Jaime III. to the Ronda de Migjorn, the southern town thoroughfare.