Montuïri

Montuïri is a municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca with 2838 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013), of which in 2008, 2281 in the same place. In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 13.5 % ( 349 ), the proportion of German population 2.8% (73). Montuïri is located in the center of the island near the main road MA- 15, approximately midway between Palma and Manacor.

History

Montuïri one of the oldest villages of Mallorca. Among the Arabs, they formed one of the twelve districts, in which the former Mayurqa was divided.

Montuïri fell, like the rest of the island, after the Catalan conquest under the land division plan ( Llibre de Repartiment of 1232), after the Conqueror King Jaume I parceled out the land and awarded to his nobles and faithful knight.

In 1300, then handed Jaume II the place own rights and it was a first, rectangular, designed Ortstkern adjoins the mill district. The 8 mills of Molinar, which have survived today, have shaped the local profile. Your stone towers that used the wind as an energy source, are a living testimony of a dependent nature of soil and past.

Over the centuries, new places and routes were added, but the medieval structure has remained clear until today.

The crisis years of the island in the 14th and 15th centuries were also sent to Montuïri is not entirely unaffected. Later, in the 18th century, is again due to the devastating drought and plague a dwindling population.

Under the Franco regime of the cultural and political dynamism of the Republican era and the National Catholicism postwar disappeared made ​​the Church the dominant element of the social and cultural life in the community.

Attractions

  • Parish Church of Sant Bartomeu, built in the 14th century, rebuilt in the 18th century
  • Parish office, around 1500
  • Chapel Mare de Deu de la Bona Pau
  • Archeological site of Son Fornés, a settlement Talayotic
  • Windmill Moli d'en Fraret
  • Mühlenviertel Es Molinar, 2010 was release compliment tours.
  • Nature reserve Puig de Sant Miquel ( 247 meters high hill )

Fairs and markets

Since 12 years in Montuïri on the first Sunday in December, the Fira de sa Perdiu, literally Partridge Fair, celebrated. An exhibition of partridges and a competition with them as decoys in hunting among the events of the fair. Otherwise, you can purchase typical local products, visit the menagerie of sheep, goats, horses and dogs and art and craft exhibitions.

  • Weekly market on the Plaça Major, Monday

Festivals

  • Sant Antoni on January 17
  • Festa d'es Puig, on the Tuesday after Easter, with pilgrimage to the Puig de Sant Miquel
  • Sant Bartomeu, patronal festival on August 24,
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