S'Horta

Felanitx municipality: s'Horta
	Sant Isidre Church in s'Horta as seen from the MA 4012.
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Balearic Islands
Island:	Mallorca
Comarca :	Migjorn
Coordinates	39 ° 24 ' N , 3 ° 13' E Coordinates: 39 ° 24 ' N , 3 ° 13' E
Residents :	1,054 (2017) INE
Postal code :	07669
Area code:	07022000400
Nearest airport :	Palma ( Son Sant Joan / Palma de Mallorca , 60 km )
Official language :	Catalan , Castilian
Location of the place
Mallorca;

S'Horta (also: L'Horta or earlier Sant Isidre or Sant Isidre de la Huerta) is a village and part of the municipality of Felanitx , which in turn is one of 53 independent municipalities on the Balearic Mediterranean island of Mallorca . The village is located in the southeast of the island and borders on Portocolom in the northeast and Calonge in the southwest . A little further to the north is the main town of the region, Felanitx.

Surname

The name of the place was fixed at the beginning of the 20th century by the city council of Felanitx with Sant Isidre ( Eng . : St. Isidore), but not accepted by the population. The village was previously known as s'Horta or Es Bubots . The place name Sant Isidre was then added to Horta (Huerta) ( Sant Isidre de la Huerta or Sant Isidre de la Horta ) from which the current abbreviation as s'Horta or l'Horta resulted.

The name of the place denotes a fertile piece of land created by irrigation ( approx .: Horta - dt .: Garden ) and is used several times in Mallorca with this meaning. The prefix s' indicates the Moorish past of the settlement. Irrigation has a centuries-old tradition in s'Horta.

History, geography, location and language

The village is first mentioned as s'Horta in 1329. It is located at about 100 msnm in a slightly hilly landscape in the extreme southeast of Mallorca and is about 60 kilometers from the capital Palma and well connected via the road network. The village has (2017) a population of 1054 people (2008 there were 1253). Of these, 519 people lived directly in the village and the rest in the surrounding area. The official languages are Catalan and Spanish .

In the vicinity of s'Horta the previously known stone of Santanyí ( Pedra de Santanyí or Santagñy ) was broken.

The village is divided into two halves by the national road MA 4012, coming from Calonge in the direction of Portocolom.

The most important industries are local services and agriculture.

Attractions

buildings

Sant Isidre church, dates from the second half of the 19th century.

Excursion destinations

Puig de sa Talaia , about 250 meters
Es Clot del Pou, a hamlet with fincas north of S'Horta
from s'Horta about five kilometers away is the Castell de Santueri , a ( Moorish ) rock ruin on the Puig de Santueri, and about nine kilometers away the Santuari de Sant Salvador (monastery) on the Puig de Sant Salvador (507 m) a beautiful way of the cross , a church well worth seeing and the 5.5 km long “mountain” route popular with sporty cyclists.