Vilafranca de Bonany
Vilafranca de Bonany is municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca. It counts 2922 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013), of which in 2008, in 2654 lived in the same place. In 2006, the foreigners in the community was 10.3 % ( 264), the proportion of German population 0.7 % (17 ).
As a final settlement on the main street outside the still about ten kilometers away Manacor Vilafranca de Bonany was founded in the 17th century and has hardly attractions. Vilafranca de Bonany considered as a trading center of the fruit growers of Mallorca. Numerous fruit stands are located directly on the main road with juicy fruits and dewy vegetables, including cherry tomatoes on branch ( tomatiques de ramellet ), hot pepper and apricots. Famous However Vilafranca is famous for its honey-sweet melons.
The place is surrounded by fertile fields and the population at that time lived mainly from agriculture, but today work only very few of the families in this business. A part of the population works in the production or distribution of the brickworks on the outskirts in the direction Manacor and other conduct business or work in the construction industry. Vilafranca is not known for mass tourism and every guest, in one of the bars on the main road, its Cafe con Leche still enjoy between the Majorcan.
Attractions
- Parish Church of Santa Bàrbara
- Hermitage Ermita de Bonany at Puig de Bonany
Festivals
- Festa del Meló ( Melon Festival ) in September
- Santa Barbara, patron saint festival on December 4
Markets
- Fira del Meló ( melon market ), in September
- Weekly market on Wednesdays in the Plaça Major