The Minorcan character
Perhaps thus we pruned to understand the island character, the Minorcan character little by little. Sometimes an island reduces the vital space of incredible form, the personal relations are reduced to a short scope, we lose the notion of the time. The island character is very calm, without haste.
Politically, Menorca is the most progressive, more preservative island, because it has perhaps not been put under the height of construction to which it is customary Majorca, and even Ibiza. Menorca is different from the rest of the Balearic Islands. There are no high buildings (they are prohibited by law), as soon as there are mountains (always it is windy), and the green space occupies the island most of. Its condition of Natural reserve does different, ecological, brought back to consciousness with the problems of the Environment.
We will find much humble crafts, many commerce, craftsmen, who in addition are nationally recognized, and even internationally, like the footwear.
Of north to the south we also found enormous differences. Geologically, they belong to different historical periods: the North, the Tramuntana, of clearer, Mediterranean, humid earth and sands and more affected by the strong winds that visit the island the year throughout, without refuges (except Fornells), steep, rocky, with beaches of stone and cliffs; whereas the South, the Migjorn, is warmer, more protected of the wind, with calm waters, with sand beaches.
There is one who says that both topical more frequent of Menorca they are two: the stone and the wind, omnipresent in the island. This last one even conditions the character of the Minorcan ones of the north, that undergoes plus it. It is a strong and persistent wind that can cause to forts migrañas and even psychic alterations or of conduct.
The stone also is present in all the island, and of all the possible forms, always worked by the hand of the man, from walls or walls in the houses, pavements, cabins for the cattle, to the megalithic constructions that characterize the Minorcan landscape: “talaiots”, single towers or in towns, monuments of circular square plant or, with compartment separated used perhaps for diverse functions (defense, room, cult, warehouse…), tables (or “taules”), monuments whose function is still an enigma, great stones in the form of T, “navetes”, seemed to an inverted helmet of ship and whose function, apparently, was undertaker. By all this there is one that says that Menorca is a museum outdoors.
Of this the west, given its history, that lives in Menorca must choose to live between Ciudadela or Mahón, which supposes to rely on great internal differences:
Mahón, the modern thing, more the practitioner, present capital of the island and administrative center, colonial air thanks to the presence in the island of the English, that dealed with to move away of Citadel to their new inhabitants (far from the clergy and the nobility of Citadel), abierto to the world thanks to their important port (by which all the seen historical generations fought until now, given its strategic place for the commerce),
In Mahón we found constructions like the Mola, in the entrance of the port, that outside enormous importance years back, and that nowadays is still a strategic zone with military installations; the town of Villacar them (or George Town, as it were called during the English occupation), a small urbanization on the foot of the walls, where a day strong military man Sant Felip raised itself, who finished being demolished in the constant fights between Spaniards, English French and of century XVIII (1785). Today known as It is Castell, in Balearic language; We also find The Golden Delicious Farm (the house sea bream), a conserved good property, with red walls, thanks to which one is born from the most topical legend of the port of Mahón: the enthusiastic history of love between admiral Horace Nelson, hero of battles like Abukir or Trafalgar, that resided in this port with its lover Lady Hamilton.
Ciutadella (or Citadel), the traditional thing, the classic thing (aristocratic), the unalterable thing, a network of narrow side streets of defensive character in the Average Age (in the style of Corsica, Malta…) where still medieval celebrations are celebrated, like most well-known in Menorca and that supposes a hotel occupation of the one hundred percent in the island, since nobody is wanted it to lose: the celebrations of Sant Joan, with the stroll of horses by are Born; the Cathedral.
The rivalry between Mahón and Ciutadella is very old, historical. The jokes between the inhabitants of both cities, something reciprocal, one in each end of the island, the maximum distance, 40 kilometers that make the distance, for a Minorcan one are many, an abyss.
Although who it prefers to stay neutral it can choose towns as It is Mercadal or Alaior, where the tranquillity and the nature are part of their enchantment.
The own language of Menorca is peculiar, a Catalan “menorquizado” with strong Arab, English and French influences
All these differences are extended to the rest of the Balearic Islands. In fact, already in Roman texts we found the difference between the islands Gymnastics (majors, Menorca and Majorca) and the Pitiusas (smaller, Ibiza and Formentera). And among them already, we found differences named, like its progressive, naturalistic, ecological character, with rudimentary highways… of that a “green zone” defends. It is one more a more independent island, than it lives on agriculture, cattle ranch and industry, and even of the fishing, with little communication with the islands Ibiza and Formentera. It is one more a more independent island, than the rest of the Balearics to survive does not need the tourism as much as.
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