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- CALVIA
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Located in the interior, they are
both older and traditional urban nucle, that have maintained their
character rural. Formed in century XIII and XVII respectively, they
were originated like small villages, where the farmers lived on each
one of the large estates in which the zone was divided. Calvia
arises from the dismemberment of the Islamic district of "Al-Ahwaz"
or "Madina Mayurqa". Calvia Vila, that gives name to the
municipality, is located in mountainous spurs of the Mountain range of
Tramuntana, a calm place surrounded by mountains. The villa of
simple aspect, does not have great constructions. They emphasize some
satately houses with small porches in the frontal part and possessions,
houses of field, some with characteristics palaciegas, calls to
account of the noble or gentlemen landowners, who were generally next
to territories of culture.
Some of these possessions, the
harineros mills and some tower of defense compose the most important
patrimony. But, without a doubt, the most representative buildings of
Calvia are the church and the City council. The church is
original of year 1604 and has undergone successive transformations. In
her towers emphasize his esbeltas bell tower and the facade of
historicista style, where románicas reminiscencias are observed and a
great neogothic large window. The modern City council, inaugurated in
December of 1989, was projected by the architects Rafael Balaguer
and Jaime Vidal, who knew to combine elements of the popular
architecture and traditional Majorcan as the roofing tile, marés or
the pricked stone, and the functionality and design of a vanguard
building.
Calvia Vila is on a waved land
result of running of the waters towards the sea, that have given rise
to valleys of a calm and harmonic beauty where pine groves in the
parts high and orchards of fruit trees and vegetables in the most
fertile zones near the torrent appear. It is Capdellà is
located to 3 km of Calvia. It is an immersed urban nucleus in a
quiet and bucólico place where it seems that the parsimonioso time is
other people's to the wild rate of the civilization. Well taken care
of colorful houses and, and a very young church forms the urban aspect
of this locality, that in Majorcan means "the last end". In its
important environs they are possessions as They are Vic Nou and
Vell, Are Martí, Galatzó, and Ses Algorfes,
among others.
