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Article 4 of the "Estatut d'autonomia de les Illes Balears"[Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands] (PDF) (in Catalan). 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2014 . Retrieved 10 June 2014. Catalan language, Balearic Islands' own language, will have, together with the Spanish language, the character of official language. Real Decreto 603/2023, de 6 de julio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de las Illes Balears a doña Margarita Prohens Rigo" (pdf). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (161): 96063. 7 July 2023. ISSN 0212-033X. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2023 . Retrieved 29 September 2023. Margaritoff, Marco (20 September 2019). "3,200-Year-Old Bronze Age Sword Unearthed On Spanish Island Of Mallorca". All That's Interesting. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019 . Retrieved 30 October 2019. Real Decreto 1458/2018, de 14 de diciembre, por el que se declaran oficiales las cifras de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal referidas al 1 de enero de 2018"[Royal Decree 1458/2018, of 14 December, by which the population numbers resulting from the review of the municipal register as of 01 January 2018 are declared official] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministerio de Economía y Empresa. 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 December 2018 . Retrieved 18 July 2019. Since the 1950s, the advent of mass tourism has transformed the island into a destination for foreign visitors and attracted many service workers from mainland Spain. The boom in tourism caused Palma to grow significantly.

Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria (19 September 2015). "Minority languages in the linguistic landscape of tourism: the case of Catalan in Mallorca". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 36 (6): 598–619. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2014.979832. ISSN 0143-4632. S2CID 145220830. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2022.Entstehung Mallorcas [German]". Archived from the original on 28 May 2012 . Retrieved 13 December 2019. Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Mallorca is the largest island of Spain by area and second most populated (after Tenerife in the Canary Islands). [32] [33] Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer, former Real Madrid player and currently at Paris Saint-Germain,, was born in Palma, Mallorca.

Joan Miró, a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, had close ties to the island throughout his life. He married Pilar Juncosa in Palma in 1929 and settled permanently in Mallorca in 1954. [53] The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca has a collection of his works. Es Baluard in Palma is a museum of modern and contemporary art which exhibits the work of Balearic artists and artists related to the Balearic Islands. Camí de l'Arxiduc"[Path of the Archduke]. Mallorca Aventura (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 28 January 2013 . Retrieved 28 September 2017.Ramon Llull, a friar, writer and philosopher, who wrote the first major work of Catalan Literature; Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year between 2012 and 2017. [5] Etymology [ edit ] It is responsible for culture, roads, railways (see Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca) and municipal administration. As of September 2023, Llorenç Galmés [ es] ( PP) serves as president of the Insular Council. [78]