Porreres
| Porreres municipality | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : | Balearic Islands | ||
| Island: | Mallorca | ||
| Comarca : | Plà de Mallorca | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 31 ' N , 3 ° 1' E | ||
| Height : | 136 msnm | ||
| Area : | 86.84 km² | ||
| Residents : | 5,502 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 63.36 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 07043 | ||
| Nearest airport : | Palma ( Son Sant Joan / Palma de Mallorca , 26 km ) | ||
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| Official language : | Catalan , Castilian | ||
| Mayor : | Francisca Mora Veny ( PI ) | ||
| Website : | www.ajporreres.net | ||
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Porreres ( Spanish : Porreras ) is a municipality on the Balearic island of Mallorca with 5502 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). In 2008 there were 4699 inhabitants in the town of the same name. In 2006 the proportion of foreigners in the municipality was 17.1% (831), the proportion of German residents was 2.7% (129). Porreres is in the interior of the island and is about the same distance from Llucmajor , Campos and Felanitx . The main economic factor is wine and apricot cultivation.
Porreres borders the municipalities of Llucmajor , Montuïri , Sant Joan , Vilafranca , Felanitx and Campos .
Surname
The name Porreres is derived from the surname of the crusader Guillem de Porrera from the comarca Priorat . This is said to have been involved in the expulsion of the Moors from Mallorca.
history
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The area around Porreres has been populated since the Bronze Age.
The city archives were also attacked during the revolution of 1868 ; important documents that recorded about 600 years of the history of Porreres were burned.
During the Spanish Civil War , mainly in Manacor , Palma and Porreres, supporters of the republic were executed in Mallorca , including the last republican mayor of Porreres, Climent Garau. In 2016, a mass grave with the remains of 71 people who were shot nearby was found in the cemetery. 14 of them could be identified. There is a memorial at the site of the executions.
economy
Porrere's economic focus is on agriculture. It is an important apricot growing center in Mallorca. The fruits are cut in half and dried.
Attractions
- Església de Nostra Senyora de la Consolació , parish church from the 17th / 18th centuries century
- Iglesia de Sant Felip Neri
- Iglesia de l'Hospitalet
- Sanctuary and former school Santuari de Monti-Sión , around 1500
- Ermita de la Santa Creu
- Museo municipal de arte contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art), Calle Agustí Font
- Racó de la memoria (memorial at the rear of the oratory of Santa Creu)
Personalities
- Joan Llaneras Roselló (born May 17, 1969 in Porreres), Spanish cyclist .
- Bartomeu Meliá (* 1932 in Porreres), Jesuit, linguist and anthropologist.
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).
- ↑ In 1897 the village still had 4288 inhabitants and 1128 houses ( Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany in The Balearic Islands , Würzburg and Leipzig 1897, p. 174).
- ↑ Franco victims in Porreres have been identified. Mallorca Magazin from December 6th 2017. Accessed on November 23rd, 2018
- ↑ The misdeeds come to light. Interview with exhumation coordinator and historian Tomeu Garí. Mallorca Magazin of November 2, 2016. Accessed November 23, 2018
- ↑ Porreres , Mallorca Magazine .
