Qui s'enamora not tired
if viu amb l'Opinió
that Després d'a maror
sun come a Bonanca.
(Piece of a ball point bot)
Petra is a town of just over two thousand seven hundred inhabitants located in the Pla de Mallorca. In his important grain farming, may be round silhouettes of windmills. Magnificent is the church of San Pedro, built on an old Roman temple of when the great conqueror, James I, was made with the islands. Of their crosses, two are Gothic.
if viu amb l'Opinió
that Després d'a maror
sun come a Bonanca.
(Piece of a ball point bot)
Petra is a town of just over two thousand seven hundred inhabitants located in the Pla de Mallorca. In his important grain farming, may be round silhouettes of windmills. Magnificent is the church of San Pedro, built on an old Roman temple of when the great conqueror, James I, was made with the islands. Of their crosses, two are Gothic.
All this and much more: the plain, the Sierra de Tramuntana and the village is the church which can be seen from the most important the petrencs, Puig de Bonany, to 317 meters. A sanctuary crown Puig, and flank the road pine, olive, rosemary, heather and other plants, perhaps endemic to the Balearic Islands, do not recognize.
born in Petra Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer, known as the Blessed Fray Junipero Serra (Petra, 1713-Monterey, California, 1784). Before getting renown, he met a few letters in the Franciscan convent of San Bernardino, Petra. Very young he went to Palma where, after becoming a religious order of San Francisco, was a doctor in philosophy and theology, and held the chair of theology at the University Luliana Scotus de Palma. It would make the world small brotherhood, because he came to establish missions that would later become the great American cities like San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego, among others.
this important figure, we have spent his childhood home in Petra, restored, keeping it all to do with such an illustrious person, and nearby, a house museum since 1959 founded the Friends of Fray Junipero Serra. In addition to saving party on the third Sunday of September.
born in Petra also a person, not less universal, less loved by his environment. Miquel called Femenías, but is better known as Mike Manyo . He'll be 76 years and today, 31 December, 47 years ago he married Catherine Rosselló, whose marriage produced two children, Margalida and Tomeu.
Miquel name Manyo is attached, for 55 years, the ball de bot, first in the Rondalla Es Pla, and when it disappeared in the group of Bonany Puig.
The ball bot, or traditional, or popular, is typical of Mallorca. In times was improvised, both in dance and in song, but now is more regulated. This is a series of dances such as boleros (nothing to do with what we know from such), jacks, fandangos (also in the rest of Spain) and mateixes copeos. All accompanied by bass, mandolin, lute, guitar, violin, xeremies, drum, zambomba fobiol and clarinet.
The band members are decked out in a very striking, as shown in the pictures: wide trousers, wool or cotton belt men, and a long skirt and wide, bright fabrics and colors, women.
This dress Miquel Manyo and her granddaughter Alexandra, to dance in Petra or any other place where the group's presence is required. It is customary for parents to initiate their daughters in ball, and then the grandparents to grandchildren. Miquel Margalida danced with first, and now it does with the beautiful Alexandra, provided by colliding the castanets and singing the lyrics of the balls.
View grandfather and granddaughter dancing is amazing. Tomeu got me a CD of Local Television Petra (thank you), which can be both, tireless. Miquel around from the air, without touching, to Alexandra, and protecting and guiding at the same time, while girl, and would be responsible intuidos Tips Follow the godfather of . Apparently two of brazadas plumas Voland, ROMPE impression that when Michael leaves the foot CAER, insurance, corporate and youth on the Tablado.
Los representativos qualifications most of the Mallorcan dances are: Puig same from Bonany, Parado de Valldemossa, Sant Antoni, Sant Joan Jack, Their grape, mountain tops, is cambuix, Same bunyolina, Jack Petra, Sa Snow Ball, Jack marine S'Escandalari, cups killings of lovers Jack, same spring, and Jack Bolero Mallorca Mallorca.
