Port De Pollença
Port de Pollença (Balearic ; ) is a small town in northern Majorca, Spain, on the Bay of Pollença about 6 km east of Pollença and two kilometres southeast of Cala Sant Vicenç, Majorca, Cala Sant Vicenç. Cap de Formentor is connected to Port de Pollença via a 13.5 km road. Geography Port de Pollença is the most northerly town in Majorca. It is split into several main areas: Pine walk, Boquer, Central, Siller, Pinaret, Llenaire and Gotmar. The scenic Boquer Valley runs north-east from the town, near the ruins of the pre-Roman city of Bocchoris (City), Bocchoris, one of the oldest settlements on the island. The Pine walk The Pine Walk fronts onto a sheltered part of the larger . It is the most popular walk around the coastal line of the town and features a Bronze sculpture, bronze Bust (sculpture), bust of the artist Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa. Near the end of the Pine Walk stands the old Military Base, home of a number of fire fighting aircraft. Military D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miquel Capllonch Rotger
Miquel Capllonch Rotger (14 January 1861 in Pollença - 21 December 1935) was a Majorcan pianist and composer. He studied music in Pollença with his cousin, Joan Rotger, organist of the parish of Pollença. He continued his musical studies with William Massot and at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, with teachers like Tragó, Galiana, Chapí and Hernando. He then worked in Madrid with the Polish composer Weber. He obtained a grant from the Island's Council to complete studies in Germany, where he was a student at the Conservatory of Music in Berlin. Among his teachers there was Anton Rubinstein who would become a good friend. He taught music for the royal families of Prussia (the Hohenzollerns ) and Saxony, and gave concerts for European royalty. In 1906 he married Gabriela Miteau with whom he had four children. In 1912 he moved with his family to Madrid, and three years later to Barcelona. He died in Pollença on 21 December 1935 and is commemorated by a bronze bust (at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sandra Mihanovich
Sandra Mihanovich (born April 24, 1957) is an Argentina, Argentine singer, musician, and composer of Rock (music), rock, blues, and Tango music, tango rhythms. Biography She was born in the Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of Iván Mihanovich, a polo player of Croatian people, Croatian descent, and Mónica Cahen D'Anvers, a journalist and TV anchorperson. She inherited from her paternal grandfather her passion for jazz music. After completing high school (Northlands School, Olivos, Buenos Aires), she studied music at the Universidad Católica Argentina and, since March 1976, also theater at the Conservatorio de Arte Dramático. She is the niece of composer Sergio Mihanovich. Her singing début was at "La Ciudad" pub on May 20, 1976. While working the pub circuit, she met fellow musician and composers Alejandro Lerner, Marilina Ross, Celeste Carballo, Horacio Fontova and Ruben Rada, whose songs she went on to include in her re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Puerto Pollensa (song)
"Puerto Pollensa" is a song written by Argentine singer-songwriter and actress Marilina Ross, first recorded and popularized by singer Sandra Mihanovich, who released it as a single in 1981 and later included it in her album of the same name, released in June 1982 on MICSA, a subsidiary of label Microfón. The lyrics of the song are autobiographical and tell a love affair that Marilina Ross had on the beaches of Puerto Pollensa, a town north of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. The ban on music in English imposed by the dictatorship during the Falklands War in 1982 greatly benefited the careers of Argentine popular musicians, among them Mihanovich and Ross. "Puerto Pollensa" received a lot of radio airplay and was a commercial success, reaching number one on '' Cashbox''s Argentine single's chart in July 1982. This context also allowed Ross to sign a record deal with Discos CBS and release the album ''Soles'' that year, which included her own rendition of "Puerto Pollensa". Neverth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marilina Ross
Marilina Ross (born María Celina Parrondo; February 16, 1943, in Liniers, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine singer and actress. She went into exile in Spain during the years of the military dictatorship (1976–1983), because this would not allow her to develop her artistic activities in Argentina. Ex-spouse of actor Emilio Alfaro, she is a friend of the actresses Norma Aleandro, Cristina Banegas, Selva Alemán, singer Piero and writer Alberto Migré. Also, she was a friend of actress Bárbara Mujica Bárbara Mujica (née Bárbara Moinelo Múgica; stage name Barbara Moinelo; March 13, 1944, in Buenos Aires – August 1, 1990, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film, stage, and television actress of the 1960s and 1970s. Her mother was the act ..., with whom she shared several works. Discography * 1968: ''Carta a papá/Vivir aquí'' * 1974: ''Estados de ánimo'' * 1975: ''Queréme... tengo frío'' * 1982: ''Soles'' * 1983: ''A mis queridos seres''; (reissue ''Estados de ánim ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Problem At Pollensa Bay And Other Stories
''Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories'' is a short story collection by Agatha Christie published in the UK only in November 1991 by HarperCollins. It was not published in the US but all the stories contained within it had previously been published in American volumes. It retailed at £13.99. It contains two stories with Hercule Poirot, two with Parker Pyne, two with The Mysterious Mr. Quin, Harley Quin and two Gothic fiction, gothic tales. List of stories * ''Problem at Pollensa Bay'' * ''The Second Gong'' * ''Yellow Iris'' * ''The Harlequin Tea Set'' * ''The Regatta Mystery'' * ''The Love Detectives'' * ''Next to a Dog'' * ''Magnolia Blossom'' Publication history * 1991, HarperCollins, November 1991, Hardcover, 232 pp * 1992, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback First publication of stories The first UK magazine publication of all the stories has not been fully documented. The known listing is as follows: * ''Magnolia Blossom'': First published in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End theatre, West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Màxim Huerta
Máximo Huerta Hernández (born 26 January 1971), also known as Màxim Huerta, is a Spanish journalist, writer, television celebrity and former politician. In June 2018 he was appointed by PM Pedro Sánchez to the post of the Minister of Culture and Sport of the first Sánchez government, and resigned one week later after it was revealed that he had committed tax fraud in 2006–2008. Biography Early life and career Huerta was born in Utiel, Valencia, as Máximo Huerta Hernández. He graduated in Information Sciences from the CEU San Pablo University and has a Master's Degree in Graphic Design and Editorial Illustration from the Istituto Europeo di Design. He started his career working in radio stations and newspapers in the Valencian Community: RNE's Radio 5 in Utiel and Radio Buñol, or ''Valencia 7 días'' and ''Las Provincias''. Career in television Huerta first worked in television in 1997, when he joined the regional channel Canal Nou to present and edit the news ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 7 October 2010. He is the first Nobel laureate in Literature from Peru and the fifth Latin American to become one after 1982 Colombian laureate Gabriel García Márquez and 1971 Chilean laureate Pablo Neruda. Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was one of the leading writers in the Latin American boom. His extensive authorship consists mostly of novels, but also of plays, essays, literary criticisms, and journalism. His major breakthroughs include ''The Time of the Hero, La ciudad y los perros'' (lit. "The City and the Dogs"/trans. "The Time of the Hero", 1963), ''The Green House, La casa verde'' ("The Green House", 1965), ''The War of the End of the World, La guerra del fin del mundo'' ("The War of the End of the World ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as '' The Time of the Hero'' (, 1963/1966), '' The Green House'' (, 1965/1968), and the monumental '' Conversation in The Cathedral'' (, 1969/1975). He wrote prolifically across various literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Formentor
Cap de Formentor () is the northernmost point of Majorca, Mallorca, on the Formentor peninsula. Location Cap de Formentor is located on the northernmost point of the Balearic Islands, Balearic Island Majorca, Mallorca in Spain. Its highest point, ''Fumat'', is 384 m above sea level. It has many associated bays, including ''Cala Figuera'', ''Cala Murta'' and ''Cala Pi de la Posada''. The Mallorcans also call the cape the ''Meeting point of the winds''. History In 1863, the Formentor Lighthouse was opened, the remote and rugged location on the Cap de Formentor making construction difficult. The only access was from the sea or via a long mule track. Following the death of the renowned Mallorcan poet Miquel Costa i Llobera, author of the famous poem The Pine of Formentor and owner of the Cap de Formentor peninsula, it was divided into lots and sold. In 1928 Adan Diehl, an Argentinian native and art lover, decided to build the Hotel Formentor. The 13.5 km road which ru ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miquel Costa I Llobera
Miquel Costa i Llobera (10 March 1854 – 16 October 1922) was a Spanish poet from Majorca. He mainly wrote in Catalan language. He is regarded as a prominent figure of Catalan poetry. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo described him as an excellent lyric poet who would rank among the greatest in any nation and during the finest literary periods. Biography Early years, romanticism, and ''The Pine of Formentor'' Born in the Majorcan town of Pollença, Spain, in 1854, he was the son of a family of rural owners and was orphaned as a mother at the age of eleven. He grew up very influenced by his uncle, a medical doctor in Pollença, who introduced him to the local landscape and his interest in classical literature. He studied in Madrid and Barcelona, where he met Antoni Rubió i Lluch and was a disciple of the writer Josep Lluís Pons i Gallarza. In 1874 he won an award at the Floral Games. He cultivated, in a first stage, romantic poetry, exemplified in his best-known poem, ''Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |