La Patrona Pollenca 2016.

[Sparky]

Here is the itinerary for the fiesta :-

Friday 22:

22:00 CHARITY CONCERT by the soprano Raquel Ribas, baritone Joan Segui, the City Choir of Palma Teen Spirit Chorus and Youth Orchestra Balearic Islands, profit ABAIMAR, hungry, and the work of Puig Prodis. Place: Cloister of San Domingo. Price: 10 euros. Presale: Pollensa Pollensa Club, Electronics and Tao Cuadrado, Puerto Pollensa: Viajes Mirador and Bellini Fun Boats. Organized Rotary Club Pollensa


Saturday 23:

21:30 Gathering with the performance of folk dance groups Ibarra-Kaldu Barakaldo , air and Cala Xeremiers Orats . Location: Plaza Mayor. Organized Aires and Cala Xeremiers Orats


Sunday 24:

19.30 Presentation of the book " No party without bagpipes! Xeremiers Orats 10 years . " Location: Old Town Square. Organized Xeremiers Orats Aires and the Cove.
20.30 Concert of traditional music by the groups Ibarra Kaldu-Barakaldo and Xeremiers Orats . Location: Old Town Square. Organized Xeremiers Orats Aires and the Cove.


Monday 25:

16:30 to 19:30 am BOARD GAMES. Place: Joan March gardens. Organized hungry.
22:30 Ballroom by Boat and Pisces. Location: Plaza Mayor.


Tuesday 26:

14.00 Esclafits pipes and rockets. Timed. Parade of the bugle Sultan. Location: Plaza de Monti-sion.
14.15 OPENING of the exhibition program participants in the design contest program EMPLOYER 2016 award winner. Place: Plenary Hall.
20.30 Parade of the bugle and drums . Place: Streets of Pollensa.
22.00 pray that says Neus Albis entitled "A window to the world." When finished, the Band Concert and Tribute to former directors and Bernabé Sanchis Vicente Fontelles. Initially there will be hailed by all participants.
Place: Cloister of San Domingo.
23:30 Damien Oliver CONCERT "own music". Location: Plaza Mayor.


Wednesday 27:

18.30 SMALL PIRATES IN SEARCH OF TREASURE. Musical entertainment for children from 3 years. At the end of an ice cream offered to children attending courtesy of Bartholomew Reig SA, Nestle Ice Cream Helados Valls. Location: Plaza Mayor
22:00 CULTURAL EVENING. Ramon Pico and Campamar (1848-1916). Writer and illustrious son of Pollensa. Matthew and Capllonch Rotger (1862-1916). Canon, historian and illustrious son of Pollensa. Ramon Llull (1232-1316). Philosopher and father of Catalan. "The painting in Pollensa today." Tribute to Michael Cerda "Norai." Painter and sculptor. Presented Nila Oliver. Speakers: Heart of Pollensa, Bernat Cifre "Garrit" Xeremiers and friends San Antonio, Swing Group, Cristian Diaz Urgell Antonio Cabanellas "Mossenya" Peter Salas, Francesca Palou "Paia" painters and friends of Pollensa. Place: Cloister of San Domingo. Admission: € 1 (donation to the exit). Organizers: Cultural Association "U" Camp de Oca.
23:45 pm FANTASY gardens . Come makeup fantasy motifs. Place: Ca la Gran Cristiana.


Thursday 28:

RADIO POLLENÇA goes out these teas do in Old Town Square. The radio magazine will offer a seminar to study radio from the Old Town Square, interviews with the protagonists of the Employer. Everyone is invited to go through the microphones of the radio and tell your municipal!
From 10 am to 13 pm The Indian summer special Patron.
17 to 20 h Small Pleasures Summer Special Patron.
20 to 21 pm The Patron Steel du Vagos Special Edition, live radio program with surprises, guests, Imitations and humor. Location: Old Town Square.
17.30 XOP PARK FESTIVAL, festival of water for children, in collaboration with the Fire Department of the Council of Mallorca restored an old car show; Disco foam below. Party Holly child. Come and white! Place: Can Conill.
20.30 DANCE SHOW by the dance school farm Tramuntana corner and then a dance with Ballugall. Location: Plaza of the Ca Monnin.
22.00 gospel concert by the Choir of Felanitx, the Chamber Choir of the Conservatory Felanitx choir of Ses Salines, the City Choir of Mallorca, the Choir of San Juan and the Choir of Pollença accompanied by a jazz trio and directed by John Lainez. Place: Cloister of San Domingo.
22:30 GREAT NIGHT SWING by Long Time No Swing U Dirty Rices and Dj.Set Sing, Sing, Sing. Location: Plaza Mayor.
Friday the 29th:

19.00 h DRAGUT FESTIVAL Àrea Concert: Main Line10, Trallery, Frontman and the Managers, Garanya, Circosmics i Superlipopet. Àrea Reggae Sound System: Dub Kontaktua, Fuaka, Dub Inmersion, Dubsetta. Exposicions, tallers, música, malabars i jocs per a infants. Lloc: plaça de Ca les Monnares.
20.30 MEETING III line dancing "Christian, all white," with animation Xisco Rueda CFFBD monitor the area for the benefit of the AECC. Donation: $ 5. Location: Plaza Mayor.
21.30 Pollencina FESTIVAL, Presented by Felip Munar and Antonia Plomer. It will pay tribute to glosador Monserrate Amengual Cànaves and be a recognition Ramon Pico and camping in the centenary of his death, with performances by Ballugall, Rincon de Tramuntana, Martin Sáez and Elisa Sayrol Coral Estate Pollencina, Peter William, Perich and Stephen Martin of Punta de Cala Aires, Xeremiers Orats Juan Carlos Munar, John Smith, Toni Cerda, Damien Oliver, Pere Llobera and a pair of amazing surprises! Place: Cloister of San Domingo. Organized Antoni Bisanyes


Saturday 30:

10.00 12.00 DEMONSTRATION of handmade sandals that lead participants in the simulation, by Peter Walls. Place: Can Pacifier, rue de la Mar, 40
CHARITY DINNER 20.00. Place: Joan March gardens. Organized AECC
21.00 GRAND PRIX Pollensa . Water sports, falls ... Location: Plaza of the Ca Monnin.
23:30 FESTIVAL in charge of Orrifar, Islanders and Val 9. Location: Plaza Mayor


Sunday 31:

18.30 planted GIANTS DE MALLORCA. Place: Via Pollentia
19:00 Giants parade Place: Via Pollentia, Michael Boots Brownstone, Roser Vell, square, market, Jonquet, Pius XI and the square Ca Monna where dance all. Organizers: Flock of St. George.
19.30 COOKING CONTEST TRADICIONALl ONIT. "Trempó." Registration for the site: 5 euros. Location: Plaza of the Ca Monnin.
FRESH START 23:30: "The rebirth of a legendary party." Come and enjoy the best music from the 80s with many surprises and novelties. Location: Plaza Mayor.


Monday 01:

19.00 Puppet paradise with the work the enchanted castle. Location: Old Town Square.
20.00 Parade by the Band of Bugles and Drums Band of Pollensa and Pollensa Music.
Site: Streets of Pollensa
22:30 FESTIVAL , La Loca Motor skiing Everywhere Ses Bubotes. Location: Plaza Mayor

Tuesday 02:

ALBORADA 5:00 pm in the main square to keep the streets of the town.
ALBORADA 8:00 pm in the Plaza de Miguel Capllonch.
ALBORADA 9:00 pm in the Plaza de los Pinos, Cala San Vicente.
ROUTES
Plaza Mayor, City Council, Martorell square, corner Street Coronel Aloy Bosch and General, corner Street Coronel Aloy and Canon Llobera street corner and Alberta Mother Joan Vives Rotger, square Assolellador (trough San Isidro), Avenue de l ' Argentina square Ca les Monnin, square of St. George, corner Street Mar Verger, corner Street Padre Vives and Binimelis, corner Street Formentor Gerreria, corner Street Horta and Gruat corner street Leon and Bonavista, corner Street Roca Thomas and Huerta Plaza Almoina.
Michael Capllonch Square (Port de Pollenca)
Cala Molins Square (San Vicente) and Residence
MAJOR TRADE 11.00 in the Parish and dancing of the Offer by cossiers.
12:15 pm In the Plaza Mayor, the dance COSSIERS .
12:45 pm In the church of Monti-sion, INSTITUTIONAL ACT . Performance of the Band of Pollensa.
13:00 pm City Hall, snack for all the people.
17.00 Parade by the bugle and drummers Troop Sultan.
17.30 Procession with the old image of the Employer and traditions of the town.
19:00 Mock Moors and Christians. (Only the positions of the simulation can take iron swords).
21.30 Tedeum Monsignor Michel Tortel thanksgiving and joy of singing and Costa Llobera. In the square, interpretation of the Alborada and Visca Pollença Band of Pollensa.
24.00 fireworks . Place: Puente Romano fence. Organization: City of Pollensa.

[Tommo]

Wish we could be there for the fun . It's a long time since we've experienced the local fiestas.
We are out in the middle of September. Sparky, I wonder if you know of any fiestas at that time of year?

[Sparky]

Not in this area but i found this info :-

SEPTEMBER.

3rd September Santa Margalida – Procession of the Beata celebrating the blessing by the pope of Cataline Tomas.

21st Sepember In Bunyola – Sant Mateu.

Last Sunday in September In Binissalem – Fiesta des Vermada (Harvest) – A rocket is fired at the finish of the grape harvesting. The younger village people then follow a drummer and piper to a field where a grape scuffle takes place.

[mike_dublin]

Originally Posted by sparky

Not in this area but i found this info :-

SEPTEMBER.

3rd September Santa Margalida – Procession of the Beata celebrating the blessing by the pope of Cataline Tomas.

...

Last Sunday in September In Binissalem – Fiesta des Vermada (Harvest) – A rocket is fired at the finish of the grape harvesting. The younger village people then follow a drummer and piper to a field where a grape scuffle takes place.

Having attended both the procession in Santa Margalida and the Fiesta in Binissalem over the years I can recommend both.
The grape fight in Binissalem is great fun to watch.

[Tommo]

Thanks for the info. We may be able to make the Binisallem one.

[Sparky]

It's the last day today and as is the norm we were shaken early by the huge booms, Tangofan it's a good job you were not here, you would have thought they had dropped the bomb .

[Sparky]

For those who don't know about this fiesta and battle, below is a very informative post from alcudiapollensa: 1550 And All That: Dragut's failure in Pollensa.

1550 And All That: Dragut's failure in Pollensa.

Around eleven o'clock on the night of 30 May 1550, a force of some 1500 men landed at a cove between the Punta Avançada and the beach of Formentor. The force had sailed from Ibiza the afternoon before. It had arrived off the port of Sant Miquel in the north of that island on 27 May and had proceeded to undertake raids. The governor of Ibiza, Jaume Salvà, got wind of a larger operation - one against Mallorca. He was able to get notice of this to the Mallorcan viceroy, Gaspar de Marrades. There was to be an immediate assault on Mallorca, but it wasn't known where.

The lookout warning system was to fail. There was a full moon on the night of 30 May and it is possible that there was cloud cover as well. The force had been by Dragonera off Andratx at dawn on 30 May. It seems that no one was aware of the fact. By sunset it was by Pollensa. The landing was led by Dragut, otherwise known as Turgut Reis, the supreme commander of the naval forces of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean, who had succeeded Barbarossa in 1546. The size of the army - the 1500 men - was later to be confirmed by a notary, Joan Morro, and by the Manacor-born priest and historian, Joan Binimelis.

But Binimelis was only twelve at the time. The author of the "new history" of the island of Mallorca, his work wasn't to appear (in Mallorquín, remarkably enough for a language that has so little evidence of having been written) until 1595. This is just one reason why it is hard to say for certain what really happened in 1550. Binimelis, as with providers of contemporary documentation, would have adopted a one-sided perspective; it would have been subject to elaboration, embellishment and falsehood.

Where there is certainty is the date. The actual landing spot has been taken to be certain, but it was a curious place to come ashore. The Formentor promontory would not have been easy to negotiate on foot. It would also have added distance to the march to Pollensa town. Moreover, had there been an army in waiting, the invasion force would have had great difficulty in making advances on Pollensa. There was no army in waiting. Not near Formentor anyway.

The story goes of course that it was the traitor, Joan Xumet, who had enabled the landing. His act of treachery is what led him to be given the ironic name Lloctinent, the lieutenant to Dragut. The keeper of the watchtower of Albercutx was supposedly asleep when the force appeared in the bay of Pollensa. Or had he been bribed? Had other keepers of watchtowers been likewise "got at"? Historians of the present day put events of that fateful night down to corruption. Perhaps there had been cloud obscuring the full moon. No one knows, but cloud cover wouldn't have been a factor in daylight as the force made its way off the coast of the Tramuntana mountains.

Pollensa, though it wouldn't have had a regular army as such, would have been able to draw on a sizable force of armed men. There was an obligation to carry arms in the event of incursions by enemies. This had been emphasised by a Saracen assault at Cala San Vicente almost twenty years before. With reinforcements that could have been expected to have been drafted in from other villages, such as Campanet, a local force, ready and waiting, would have been able to repel Dragut's army before it got to Pollensa.

As things turned out, or so it is said, Dragut made a mistake. For a supreme commander it might have seemed a basic one. Dividing his force into three perhaps made sense in being able to create different flanks to attack Pollensa, but it appears that lack of local knowledge was to prove to be the plan's downfall. Two divisions got lost.

The rest is, sort of, history. Joan Mas led the people of Pollensa. He called on the assistance of Our Lady of the Angels, Dragut and his men (those not killed and presumably also those who had been lost) were put to flight, Dragut took it out on the castle in Cabrera and the odd Menorcan village before heading away from the Balearics. Some 300 years later - 1860 to be precise - the re-enactment of the Moors and Christians of Pollensa was decided upon. And it was to take place not on 30 or 31 May but on 2 August, the day of Pollensa's patron: "Mare de Déu dels Àngels, assistiu-mos. Pollencins, aixecau-vos, que els pirates ja són aquí!"
Posted by andrew at 6:01 AM
Labels: Dragut, Moors and Christians, Pollensa

[Cat318]

Thanks for posting the info, Sparky. I nearly jumped out of my skin this morning! Does anything happen in PP today or is it all in the old town?

[Sparky]

All the action is in Pollensa but you will probably see some people in Moors or Christians costumes wandering around the Port especially later. Also be prepared to hear more "explosions" throughout the day .

[Cat318]

Thanks for the warning!

[Molt de Renou]

Enjoy it whilst you can, if you see what I mean.