Pollença

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Pollença municipality
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Pollença coat of arms
Pollença (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Balearic Islands
Island: Mallorca
Comarca : Serra de Tramuntana
Coordinates 39 ° 53 '  N , 3 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 53 '  N , 3 ° 1'  E
Height : 15  msnm
Area : 151.65 km²
Residents : 16,283 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 107.37 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 07460
Municipality number  ( INE ): 07042
Nearest airport : Palma ( Son Sant Joan / Palma de Mallorca , 43 km )
administration
Official language : Catalan , Castilian
Mayor : Miquel Àngel March ( Junts Avançam )
Address of the municipal administration: C / Escalonada Calvari, 2
07460 Pollença
Website : www.ajpollenca.net
Location of the municipality
Mallorca
Location of the municipality of Pollença
View from the Calvary over the town of Pollença
Pollença Bay

Pollença ( Castilian Pollensa) is a municipality in the north of the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca .

Community structure

The following places belong to the municipality of Pollença:

  • Aeròdrom Militar (51/51 inhabitants)
  • Bellresguard (25/25 inhabitants)
  • Cala Sant Vicenç (243/270 inhabitants)
  • Ca'n Singala (43/43 inhabitants)
  • El Vilà (22/22 inhabitants)
  • Les Palmeres (133/133 inhabitants)
  • La Font (40/40 inhabitants)
  • Pollença (7537/8934 inhabitants)
  • Port de Pollença (6239/6596 inhabitants)

The population figures in brackets are from January 1, 2011. The first number indicates the residents of the built-up areas, the second number the residents of the towns, including the “scattered” population outside the actual settlements. (Source: INE )

politics

Residents

Pollença has 16,283 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). In 2006 the proportion of foreigners was 22.9% (3,757), the proportion of German residents was 2.5% (407).

The population is concentrated in three main settlement areas: the main town of the same name seven kilometers away from the coast and the tourist towns of Port de Pollença on the Bay of Pollença and Cala Sant Vicenç on the bay of the same name on the north coast. The municipal area of ​​over 150 km² includes the entire Formentor peninsula with the offshore islands of El Colomer and Illa de Formentor .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Pollença is integrated into the road network via the Ma-10 with Sóller and the Ma-2200 with Port de Pollença and the Autopista Ma-13 .

The GR 221 long-distance hiking trail ends at the Refugi de Pont Romà hiking accommodation in Pollença .

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Nostra Senyora del Roser
  • Alley in Pollença
  • Ascent to the Calvary
  • Descent from Calvary with a view of Pollença
  • Pont Romà
  • Castell del Rei
  • Street with public art

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities with a connection to the city

The Catalan painter Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871–1959), the painter Rudolph Carl von Ripper (1905–1960), the German hit writer and music producer Kurt Feltz (1910–1982) and the Austrian journalist Anton Zischka (1904–1997) died in Pollença. .

The German painter Eugen Mossgraber-Falk (1877–1933) and the Austrian painter Jean Egger (1897–1934) lived and worked temporarily in the village. Mossgraber-Falk was made an honorary citizen of Pollença in 1914.

The German art collector and author Sylvia Ströher (* 1955) owns a vacation home near the village.

Individual evidence

  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).
  2. ↑ Olive Oil Tourism Mallorca , Ed .: Govern de les Illes Balears, page 6
  3. ^ Axel Thorer, Mallorca - Lexicon of the secrets of the island , Hoffmann and Campe Hamburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , page 274

Web links

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