Qualla: Manacor https://qualla.com/manacor 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/manacor-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Manacor https://qualla.com/manacor Manacor: Introduction https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Elgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0. A dozen taxi drivers have all but worn a groove into the road between Palma's airport and a tennis academy on the southern edge of Manacor. They make the run again and again, ferrying players and their families to the campus that Rafael Nadal built in his hometown. Manacor is not a place most visitors linger — an inland farming town in the Llevant region of Mallorca, it governs a string of glamorous beach resorts that long ago outgrew and outshone it. Yet the whole island bends toward it, because this unassuming town of some 34,000 produced one of the greatest athletes who ever lived.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/manacor-wk/sp43-manacor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Manacor: The Boy from the Llevant https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Antonio De Lorenzo, CC BY 2.5. Rafael Nadal was born in Manacor in 1986 and never really left. Over two decades at the top he won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, 36 Masters crowns, and Olympic gold, playing with a ferocity that made him nearly unbeatable on clay, before cumulative injuries finally ended his care...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/manacor-wk/sp43-manacor-the-boy-from-the-llevant.mp3 0:06 2 full Manacor: A Town Older Than Tennis https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Andreamrtineez, CC BY-SA 4.0. Long before Nadal, Manacor was a seat of power. The Torre del Palau, a stone tower standing a block north of the main church, is all that survives of a palace once held by Jaume I, the king who took Mallorca in the 13th century. Nearby, the church of Sant Vicenç Ferrer dates to a...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/manacor-wk/sp43-manacor-a-town-older-than-tennis.mp3 0:06 3 full Manacor: Pearls That Never Grew in an Oyster https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Alfaomega, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. Manacor's other great export never came from the sea floor. At the turn of the twentieth century, the town became home to Majorica, a factory that learned to manufacture artificial pearls so convincing they are said to be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. The techniqu...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/manacor-wk/sp43-manacor-pearls-that-never-grew-in-an-oyster.mp3 0:06 4 full Manacor: Fire and Demons in January https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Francesc Herrera (Q20000732), Public domain. Come the middle of January, Manacor sheds its quiet. The festival of Sant Antoni, held on the 16th and 17th, fills the streets with foguerons — great bonfires built with such artistry that people wander the town simply to admire them before they burn. At their centre are the dimo...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/3/manacor-wk/sp43-manacor-fire-and-demons-in-january.mp3 0:06 5 full Manacor: Where the Karst Begins https://qualla.com/manacor/ Photo credit Lolagt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Manacor's municipality runs all the way to the sea, and its coast is honeycombed with limestone. Just east, the harbour town of Porto Cristo guards the entrance to some of the most famous show caves in Europe, where visitors drift by boat across an underground lake. The town's wi...

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