Qualla: Artà https://qualla.com/arta en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Artà https://qualla.com/arta Artà: Introduction https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0. Climb the 180 stone steps that rise from the heart of Artà — past cypress trees and weathered stone crosses — and you arrive at a church wrapped inside a fortress. Nine towers and a wall a meter thick ring the hilltop sanctuary of Sant Salvador, a defensive crown from the days when this corner of Mallorca had to guard itself. The town spills down the slope below in steep, narrow lanes. Beyond it lie almond orchards and olive groves, and past those a coastline that — almost alone on this heavily built-up island — the tourist boom never reached.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/sp43-art-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Artà: A Garden's Name https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0. Artà keeps its Arabic inheritance in its very name. The town first appears in the written record in 1232, listed as Yartân in the Llibre de repartiment, the register of lands James I distributed after his conquest of the island; the word traces back to Gertan, Arabic for garden. ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/sp43-art-a-gardens-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Artà: The Hill of Sant Salvador https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit dronepicr, CC BY 2.0. That old stronghold still crowns the town, though a church now stands where soldiers once did. A wall a meter thick, studded with nine towers and anchored by the great tower of Sant Miquel, wraps the pilgrimage sanctuary of Sant Salvador. Inside waits a carved and painted Romanes...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/sp43-art-the-hill-of-sant-salvador.mp3 0:06 3 full Artà: A Wild Coast and Barren Hills https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit Tomeu87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Artà occupies the wild northeastern shoulder of Mallorca, some 60 kilometers from the bustle of Palma. More than half the municipality is taken up by the Massís d'Artà, the highest and most compact block of the Serres de Llevant, crowned by Puig Morei at 561 meters. Its 25 kilome...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/sp43-art-a-wild-coast-and-barren-hills.mp3 0:06 4 full Artà: The Craft of the Fan Palm https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. For centuries the people of Artà have made a living from a knee-high palm. The fan palm, Chamaerops humilis, grows wild across the country between Manacor and Artà, and its tough, pliable leaves are the raw material for llatra — a basketry tradition counted among the oldest craft...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/arta-wp/sp43-art-the-craft-of-the-fan-palm.mp3 0:06 5 full Artà: Plague, Rails, and Quiet https://qualla.com/arta/ Photo credit Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola, CC BY-SA 4.0. Artà's fortunes have risen and fallen with the centuries. Between the 1500s and the 1700s the town grew and took up textile-making alongside its farming, until an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1820 killed some 1,200 people and set it back hard. The 1800s reshaped the map as well:...

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