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Palma Culture - Palma de Mallorca
Witness to this evenful history are the culture
and lifestyle of the Palmerans. La Palma is a European island
off the African coast with South American charm. A subtropical
island on which continual immigration have led to a colourful
mixture of people. A spanish island with a Flemish past, in
which the Portuguese and Latins also added to the misture.
An island moulded by agriculture, where the traditional and
the modern go hand-in hand.
The centuries old seclusion and imposed self- sufficiency
are responsible for the fact that, even today the craft industry
is still alive on La Palma. Some of the old techniques go
back to the stone- age Benahoaritas like for example the matt
black earthen ware pots with their archaic, scored patterns.
On the other hand, textile work , silk fabric and embroidery
are all of European arigin, while cigar manufacture comes
from Latin America- to be more precise, from Cuba.
The close ties with Cuba and Venezuela are also refected
in the language, life-style, music and cuisine. Both the pronunciation
and the vocabulary of the Spanish spoken on La Palma have
been strongly influenced by Latin America. The same applies
to the traditional music and folklore, to the way people drink
their coffee or gossip and to certain dishes sush as Arroz
a la Cubana.
The immense wealth of Flemish art treasures housed in the
churches, the suggestively colonial architecture of the noble
town houses in the old part of Santa ruz de La Palma and the
haciendas of the big land owners of the past, in the Ariadne
Valley all recall the days of the sugar lords. The rum distillery
in San Andrés and the omnipresent very sweet pastries
and deserts are also reminders of the former sugar industry.
And of course, the Banahoaritas have also left their traces,
for until not all that long ago, this pastoral people still
lived on the island. Rock inscriptions, cave dwellings, burial
sites and the previously mentioned earthenware pots serve
to remind us of this prehistoric culture.
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