Mallorca, 75 years ago, was "the island of calm, the island of love" now, thanks to the corrupt and destructive governments of Franco and then capitalist fascists, it is a "hysterical, crowded and hateful island". From beautiful island to less beautiful island, an island with resources for its inhabitants and visitors to an island that wastes its resources in an abusive, uncontrolled and poorly distributed way. In 1950 6 or 7 planes landed or took off daily from Mallorca. Today there are several thousand a day.
Hotel Formentor Four Seasons Resort Mallorca
Not counting the amount of km2 of nature converted into roads, motorways, airports and buildings, and the amount of m3 of drinking water wasted on unnecessary lawns, gulfs for gulfs, polo fields and, above all, swimming pools, let's take an example of how the lack of aesthetics and respect for heritage is combined with a lack of ethics: The railway bridge by the architect Gaspar Bennazar, inaugurated in 1927 was demolished in 2005 by the PP (Catalina Cirer), the Plaza de les Columnes by the architect Guillem Forteza inaugurated in 1934 (the work of the Second Republic), demolished in 2001 by the PP (Fageda) and in the subsequent reconstruction, with columns and cardboard vaults, the shape of the circles and columns was respected. but the four central gardens were not replaced in the form of a "formaget", which was how Guillem Forteza gave it its name: "children's garden", the Hotel Formentor. Designed by Adan Diehi, Argentine poet, art critic and patron, inaugurated on August 24, 1929, very integrated into nature and possessing extraordinary charm and glamour, it housed, among others: Winston Churchill, Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly, Albert and Paola of Belgium, Dalai Lama, Charles Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, Claudia Cardinale, Plácido Domingo, Camilo José Cela, Vicente Aleixandre, Octavio Paz, Robert Graves, Miguel Delibes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Agatha Christie, Blai Bonet,..., completely demolished in 2022 (it was designed and ordered before all the exterior walls and facades) and built a new hotel inaugurated in 2024 which, as in the previous cases, is not "the Hotel Formentor". It is as if the emblematic Café Gijón in Madrid had been completely demolished and, in its place, a McDonalds was built, in which, in addition to the Mc Donalds, they also served coffee, water and soft drinks, and the owner said "since we serve coffee and it is in the same place I will put up a sign that says 'Café Gijón'", none of his illustrious customers (prestigious poets and novelists, among others) would fall for the deception. The same should happen in the "Resort Cuatro Estaciones Mallorca", which stands out (instead of integrating) among nature by cutting down 200 pine trees around it and which has the same charm with respect to the Formentor hotel as a Mac Donalds with respect to the Café Gijón. It is not typical of writers, poets and princesses. It is more suitable for very rich but very tacky people such as Trump, Elon Musc, Ayuso, Aguirre, Prohens,...
Margalida Estelrich as a teenager in Cala Murada (1963)
In the early 60s we lived in the same building and on the same landing as Margalida Estelrich, who later became the wife of the first rector of the UIB, Nadal Batle, so she was friends with my sister and all the siblings. Sometimes she sang:
“Que hermosa és Mallorca i els mallorquins, Mos morim de ganes de fer-mos endins, Somiam fortuna i a Amèrica anem, i ens embarcam I és que som uns bambols com no hi ha en el món Bàmbols, bàmbols som”.
I don't know where I got it from, nor did I hear anyone else sing it.
A few days ago I asked the AI if it recognized the song and if it could show me the whole song. It answered me affirmatively and presented me with a complete song, although it was quite a different version. It also gave me a complete recording of Sal i Llum from 2020 on YouTube. Listening to and transcribing this recording, it is the version that most resembles the song that Margalida Estelrich sang
"Que hermosa es Mallorca i es mallorquins" is the last tango entitled "Bàmbols" from the Mallorcan zarzuela "Ai Quaquín, que has vengut de prim!" , premiered in Manacor in 1935. The text is by Sebastià Rubí Roig and the music, according to the source Perlas y Cuevas, is by Antoni Maria Servera.
I és que som uns bàmbols com no hi ha en el món, fugim de sa ditxa, bàmbols, bàmbols som
Si te diven que t’en vagis Si te diuen que t’embarquis per amor de Déu no t’enfadis. Contesta amb una rialla. Vés, que no dorm dalt sa palla. Bàmbol.
Jo estim sa terra nostra. Bàmbol. I deixar-la molt me costa. Bàmbol.
No me tentis amb promeses de fortunes i riqueses, guanyades en molts pocs dies, que no crec en profecies. Bàmbol.
Per res me’n vaig de Mallorca. Bàmbol. Amèrica aquí la tenim si sabem fer es cap viu. Bàmbol.
Si te’n vols anar, embarcat. Bàmbol. Ja m’escriuràs com te va. Bàmbol. I és segur que me diràs: «tu anaves bé, jo errat». Bàmbols, bàmbols hem estat.
Que hermosa és Mallorca i els mallorquins, mos morim de ganes de fer-mos endins, somiam fortuna i darrera ella anam, i deixam ca nostra i ens embarcam, i és que som uns bàmbols com no hi ha en el món, fugim de sa ditxa, bàmbols, bàmbols som.
Palma, Monday, September 7, 2026
Netanyahu, State of Israel, Israeli Army, criminals, murderers, sadists, anthropomorphic pig shit
Long live Palestine and the Palestinians!
Government of the Balearic Islands, Valencia and Madrid. Useless, deficient, bad and harmful (those of Valencia and Madrid, with cause of death).
Long live the islands, and the islanders, Valencia and the Valencians, Madrid and the people of Madrid.
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