Alaior

Alaior municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Balearic Islands
Island:	Menorca
Coordinates	39 ° 56 ' N , 4 ° 8' E Coordinates: 39 ° 56 ' N , 4 ° 8' E
Area :	109.77 km²
Residents :	9,065 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	82.58 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	07730
Municipality number ( INE ):	07002
Nearest airport :	Maó / Sant Lluís ( Aeroport de Menorca , 12 km )
administration
Official language :	Catalan , Castilian
Mayor :	Misericordia Sugrañes Barenys ( PP )
Website :	www.alaior.org
Location of the municipality
Menorca;

Aerial view of the main town of Alaior

Alaior ( Castilian Alayor ) is a municipality on the Spanish Balearic island of Menorca . On January 1, 2019, 9,065 residents lived in the municipality.

location

Alaior is located 12 km northwest of the island's capital Maó . The highest point of the parish capital, which is in the interior of the island, is occupied by the parish church of Santa Eulalia . Individual places in the municipality are on the south coast.

Localities

The municipality of Alaior has eight places, including the municipality capital of the same name, where 78 percent of the municipality's population live:

f1 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Entitat de població	Population 2010	Coordinates
Alaior	7362	39 ° 56 ′ 2 " N , 4 ° 8 ′ 21" E39.933888888889 4.1391666666667
l'Argentina	194	39 ° 54 ′ 59 " N , 4 ° 10 ′ 25" E39.916388888889 4.1736111111111
Cala en Porter	1152	39 ° 52 ′ 15 ″ N , 4 ° 7 ′ 55 ″ E39.870833333333 4.1319444444444
Cales Coves	101	39 ° 52 ′ 35 " N , 4 ° 9 ′ 49" E39.876416666667 4.1635555555556
Sant Jaume	142	39 ° 54 '26 " N , 4 ° 4' 26" E39.907166666667 4.0738611111111
Son Bou	175	39 ° 54 ′ 4 " N , 4 ° 4 ′ 37" E39.901083333333 4.0769166666667
Son Vitamina	127	39 ° 52 ′ 10 " N , 4 ° 9 ′ 43" E39.869361111111 4.1620277777778
Torre Solí Nou	146	39 ° 54 ′ 33 " N , 4 ° 4 ′ 2" E39.909055555556 4.0671666666667
Alaior (municipality)	9399	39 ° 56 ′ 2 " N , 4 ° 8 ′ 21" E39.933888888889 4.1391666666667

Son Bou, Sant Jaume and Torre Solí Nou form a coherent holiday complex on the south coast, where one of the longest sandy beaches of Menorca, the 2.5 km long Playa de Son Bou , is located. A holiday resort further east on the coast is Cala en Porter. These are the main tourist centers in the municipality of Alaior.

The village of Cales Coves is not located on the bay of the same name (this is not inhabited), but around 1900 meters inland on the road to the bay ( Caminou de Cales Coves ).

Places of history

In the southwest of the parish on the beach of Son Bou are the remains of the early Christian basilica of Son Bou .

Almost seven kilometers east of it, on the bay of Cales Coves , is the Cales Coves necropolis with more than 90 natural and artificial burial caves from the Bronze Age (1200–850 BC) and the subsequent Iron Age (850–123 BC) . Monumental tombs near the Me-1 in the direction of Maó, the Navetas by Rafal Rubí and Biniac date from the Bronze Age .

economy

Alaior is best known for making shoes and cheese. One of the most successful shoe brands in Spain, Pons Quintana, has its origins in Alaior. Shoes are still handcrafted there today, with Pons Quintana being best known for its artfully braided shoes.

The Queso de Mahon actually comes from Alaior, where the two largest manufacturers, Coinga and La Payesa, have their headquarters. In the area around Alaior and other communities there is intensive livestock farming, some of the milk obtained from it is still processed into cheese by the farmers themselves. The cheese is named Mahón Menorca cheese ( Queso de Mahon ) from the Castilian name of the island's capital Maó, as in the past it was mainly exported from here by ship all over the world.

The Spanish ice cream brand La Menorquina was also founded in Alaior, but is now part of an international group and production takes place on the mainland.

Personalities

The Spanish historian and cartographer Josep Mascaró Pasarius (1923–1996) was born in Alaior .

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

Web links

Commons : Alaior - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nomenclàtor de nuclis de població de les Illes Balears (list of localities in the Balearic Islands)

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).