Cala Rajada
| Capdepera municipality: Cala Rajada | |||
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 Cala Rajada at Punta de Capdepera (Cabo Capdepera)
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| Autonomous Community : | Balearic Islands | ||
| Island: | Mallorca | ||
| Comarca : | Llevant | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 43 ' N , 3 ° 28' E | ||
| Residents : | 6,432 (2019) INE | ||
| Postal code : | 07590 | ||
| Area code: | 07014000100 | ||
| Nearest airport : | Son Sant Juan Airport | ||
Cala Rajada [ ˈkalə rəˈdʒaðə ] ("ray bay"), older spelling also Cala Ratjada , is a place on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . The place with 6432 inhabitants (status: 2019) is a district of the municipality of Capdepera .
geography
The place is located on a peninsula in the northeast of the region ( comarca ) Llevant . It is around 80 kilometers to the island's capital, Palma . The landscape around the place is hilly, rocky coasts mostly form the land border.
history
In the 17th century the port was built by the residents of Capdepera. Soon fishermen settled there . Among other things, rays (= ratjadas ) and lobsters were caught. After Palma de Mallorca, Cala Rajada is still the second most important fishing port in Mallorca.
The colony of exiles concentrated on Cala Rajada in the early 1930s became known. Among the anti-fascist German-speaking writers and artists were u. a. the pacifist Heinz Kraschutzki , the writers Karl Otten , Franz Blei , Herbert Schlueter , the painter Rudolf Levy and the art collector and writer Harry Graf Kessler . Other exiles were the poet Erich Arendt , the writer and adventurer Hugo Baruch , the philosopher Walter Benjamin , the painter Heinrich Maria Davringhausen , the Dadaist Raoul Haumann , the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens , the editor Kurt Lachmann , the writer Werner Lansburgh , the lecturer Konrad Alfred Liesegang , the journalist Walther Pollatschek , the journalist Arthur Seehof , the painter Arthur Segal and the writer Werner von der Schulenburg . After the Franco putsch in July 1936, most of them managed to leave the island.
The oldest hotel "Hostal Ca's Bombu" in Cala Rajada was founded in 1885 and has been run by the Esteva family ever since. By the end of the 20th century, Cala Rajada was only partially covered by the building boom that spread on the island in the wake of tourism in the 1970s. This has given the town center the character of a historic fishing village with a harbor. However, brisk construction activity began around 2000 outside the core region of the town, unless these areas are under nature protection.
Attractions
In the southern part of the village is the harbor protected by a concrete wall. Excursion boats to Cala Millor and Porto Cristo start from here . To the east of the port, the historic lobster houses of Cala Rajada are preserved, in which the lobsters were kept alive in seawater tanks before they were sold.
On a hill also east of the village, the tobacco smuggler, real estate trader and later banker Juan March built the Villa March in 1911 on the ruins of the watchtower Sa Torre Cega ("The Blind Tower") .
In the 60,000 m² park (Jardines March) that surrounds the villa and was created by the British garden architect Russell Page , there was a collection of around 40 contemporary sculptures (by Auguste Rodin , Max Bill and Henry Moore , among others ) before they were moved after a severe storm in November 2001, which caused great damage in the garden, was largely taken to Palma de Mallorca. In the Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani there , at Carrer Sant Miquel 11 , they and other works of art from the March family foundations can now be seen. In August 2010 the park in Cala Rajada was reopened by the royal couple. In addition to the sculptures, the permanent exhibition also consists of avant-garde images.
Even further east of the village, a cul-de-sac leads through a rugged rocky landscape with very small bays to the Punta de Capdepera with the Far de Capdepera lighthouse built in the middle of the 19th century . The ruins of the watchtower, Torre Embucada , also stand on this hill .
The radio beacon ( VOR / DME ) set up south of Capdepera on the Puig de Son Jordi is clearly visible in the southwest . It is used for radio navigation in aviation.
Port of Cala Rajada
Lobster house
Far de Capdepera
Watchtower on Es Telégraf (273 m)
tourism
There are three larger beaches in the immediate vicinity of the village : On the one hand, Cala Agulla ( Cala Guyá ) in the north-west, Cala Son Moll in the south-west and the bay of Cala Gat in the (south) east. There are also many small bays such as Cala Lliteres in the north.
The Coves d'Artà caves are in the vicinity .
Largest beach: Cala Agulla
(Cala) Son minor
Cala Gat bathing bay
Cala Lliteres
Cala Pedruscada, a former fishing village
Na Ferradura, sculpture by Joan Bennàssar
Regular events
Festivals
- January 21: St. Antoni - St. Antony
- July 16: Virgen del Carmen (venerated as the patron saint of fishermen) - Our Lady on Mount Carmel
- August 16: Sant Roc - St. Rochus
- August 24th: Sant Bartomeu - St. Apostle Bartholomew
The market
Once a week there is a food market in Cala Rajada in the central square of Plaça dels Pins on Saturdays .
additional
In the parish church of Nostra Senyora del Carme in the center of the village, a service in German takes place on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. for the German Protestant community on Mallorca .
traffic
By motor vehicle is the place of Palma de Mallorca in about to reach an hour on the Ma-15, where up Manacor a four-lane road exists.
There are direct bus connections between the two places several times a day ( bus station in the center of the village), operated by Transports Públics de les Illes Balears (TIB). Since the railroad from Palma de Mallorca only leads to Manacor in this direction, the last third must also be covered by bus. As mentioned above, regular boat connections are offered through the port.
literature
- Gisela Völger: Mallorca Real Travel . DuMont , Cologne 1996
- Tanja Wahle, Stefan Wahle, Travel Guide Cala Ratjada (Mallorca) , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-4758-7
Web links
http://www.capvermell.org/index.php/agenda/convocatories/16360-p
Individual evidence
- ^ Axel Thorer, Mallorca - Lexicon of the secrets of the island , Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 128