Sant Joan

The small community of Sant Joan with 1973 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) located in the center of the Balearic island of Mallorca, bordering the municipalities of Vilafranca de Bonany, Petra, Sineu, Lloret de Vistalegre, Montuïri and Porreres. The valley, which is home to 1717 inhabitants of the municipality is located about six kilometers west of Petra and seven kilometers southeast of Sineu. In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 14.1 % ( 262), the proportion of German population 4.1% (76).

The farming village, in the old days Alahamar called, surrounded by hills, rising out of the vast plain of planning, was awarded with the land use plan of the King James II in 1300, the city rights.

Description

" This place with its monotonous streets and gray houses counts 1532 inhabitants, who live in 491 mostly one-story homes ," noted 100 years ago Archduke Ludwig Salvator in his " Balearic Islands in word and image ." More or less meets this description of the small farming village in Mallorca center, the level of Es Pla, even today. Although it has become one of 1717 inhabitants in an area of 38.51 km2 and some houses anymore, but the rather dreary little village character has been.

Economy

It is a community where even today agriculture and livestock are the most noticeable lines of business. As a result, their products play an important role, such as known under the name Mallorcan botifarrón the tomatiga de Ramallets ( zopfförmig bound tomatoes) and sausages and sausage sobrassada predicate.

Attractions

Sant Joan has an unusually large church, Sant Joan Baptista, whose origins go back to the year 1293. The parish church has a magnificent interior with a Alabsterkanzel and a valuable paneling.

In 1992, the municipality has however to get an attraction, a tourist even Els Calderers. Get this purpose is not really true, because of the huge Country Estate existed for several centuries. Only it was so far no one available except the owners and their friends. That has now changed radically. Just in the first month after opening for the general public were 5,000 visitors, islanders and foreign tourists. What they saw was probably impressive, dating back an intense look back into the world of the Majorcan country nobility in a feudal manor house, whose origins far.

Above the village is the Sanctuary de la Consolacio in which a statue of the Madonna will be treasured. Legend has it that this figure was once found by an Arab boy from a burning bush. The main altar is decorated with a portrait of the Verge de la Consolacio.

• Sanctuary of the Mare de Deu de la Consolació. 1 km from the town center, you can reach this lovely little church at the end of a broad staircase, which is an interesting example of local folk architecture. Built in the 13th century the church was later expanded and renovated recently.

• Puig de Sant Nofre. At the foot of the mountain grow wild olive and carob trees, holm oaks and bushes, so one of the sun -resistant undemanding flora. Located on the top, now a private property belonging to the ruins of the hermitage of Sant Onofre from the 15th century

• Parish Church of Sant Joan Baptista. Some parts, such as the portal page, are from the original church from the 15th century by the subsequent construction ( 1759-1791 ) attest to the bell tower and the left side chapels. In the years 1927 to 1939 the church got its final shape on the base form of a basilica. About the two aisles and the atrial leads a Balustradengang, in which the Church Museum.

• Catholic center. The facade is topped by a portrait of Fra Lluís Jaume, a monk who evangelized and Sant Joan in 1775 died a martyr in California. The center was built in 1922 and is located on Plaça del Rey Juan Carlos I.

• " Els Calderers ". At the foot of the hermitage of the Puig de Bonany this old estate. The construction of the set for a genteel Pla, Mallorca's central plain, representative property was built in 1700 and provides an insight into the country aristocratic lifestyle of that time. In the stables and enclosures all kind of animals are kept, especially indigenous breeds; furthermore, you can visit a wine cellar and agricultural implements and tools in their original form obtained workshops. You can reach the museum to the Cami dels Calderers or via the Carretera Palma - Manacor, at kilometer 37 is the driveway.

Festivals

• Festa de Pa i Peix (bread and fish), on the 4th Sunday of Lent
• Festa del Sol que Baila ( " The festival of the dancing sun") on 24 June.
• Festa de l' Estiu ( summer festival ), on August 29.
• Festa of botifarró ( barbecue marks the end of summer ), in October.

Market

Every Thursday morning held a weekly market.