SA POBLA OPEN LAND, a village on the border

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Sa Pobla with its more than 11.000 inhabitants, is today a dynamic and modern village, where tradition and modernity live together in harmony. Land of welcome, cultural crossbreeding and open minded, Sa Pobla has one of the largest commercial, cultural and gastronomic proposals in the north of Mallorca, and it forms in fact a bridge between the cosmopolitan coastline and the interior of the island, still unwilling to show its charm.

Ca’n Blau, S’Albufera i les marjals.

Can Blau, pont de ferro.	Camí de Son Carbonell

At Sa Pobla, s’Albufera (pond) and marsh get together in a singular and unique landscape, a few miles away from a bright blue sea.

To get to Sa Pobla first we should go through s’Albufera one of the most esteemed natural heritage of Mallorca. Land of fen, rice and reed; fruitful land won to the water thanks to the visionary constancy of two British engineers – Hope & Bateman-, s’Albufera keeps the testimony of a secular fight against the elements, a fight made of effort and sacrifice. S’Albufera, its myths, its tales, its mystery... are an essential part of town’s history and have forged its citizens kind.

Museu de St. Antoni i el Dimoni

Arriving at Sa Pobla, located in the old railway station, there is the St, Anthony & Devil’s Museum, where we find the two most representative symbols of a celebration more than 600 years old.These festivities have a lot of parallelism to the Celtic rites , closely bound together with the cult to fire as well as millenary mediterranean rituals.

The night of January 16th.-every year-, -two forces- St. Anthony and the Devil- put face to face in a religious celebration, but funny, along with a very famous gastronomy in Mallorca.

La Plaça Major

Walking through the town we arrive at Plaça Major,- Main square- a dynamic place where is to see the cultural crossbreeding of the local society. Leaving main square to the left, we arrive to the parish church. The bell tower was built between 1595 and 1665.

The rest of the church as we can see it today, has been finished in 1761. Its main façade has quite simplicity, The church has a unique nave with lateral chapels, one of them, Our Lady of rosary was built in a square shape with a lantern that allows the natural daylight through the windows fall into the chapel.

Can Planes. Espais d’Art i Cultura.

Following our walk across the village we arrive at Ca’n Planes Museum, which is located in an old manor house. This important cultural centre takes us in to two museum spaces: Contemporary Art Museum and the Toys Museum.

The Contemporary Art Museum holds a permanent background of more than one hundred works made by Mallorcan artists and other painters who live on the island, mostly from 1970 to 1990; a period of time very intense in the evolution of contemporary Art in the isles.

The Toys Museum, one of the largest in Europe in its genre exhibits an own background of more than 3.000 toys and objects that have to do with the childhood world. The show exhibits just a part of the whole collection, and allows us a journey to the past just to teach us how our ancestors used to play. This is a display of handicraft toys from different countries as well as a display of industrial toys development from lithographed tin toys to the synthetic “mass made” ones.

Crestatx

Just to finish our journey, we will visit Crestatx oratory. Located in the outskirts of Sa Pobla towards Pollensa about 2 miles away from the centre, Crestatx is the spiritual reference of the village and it already appears in some documents back in 1.285. it was a little hamlet built just after the conquest of Mallorca by the catalans in the XIII century. Today’s structure –after some restorations and improvements- display a joint with remains of Lombard Romanesque Art.