Famous Residents in Mallorca

The Mallorcan missionary, Junipero Serra (1713-84), is honoured in the Capitol in Washington as 'the founder of California'.

Robert Graves was a British author, born in London (1895) but who lived in Deia on the west coast of Mallorca from 1929 until he died in 1985.

Rafael Nadal, born in Manacor on 3rd June 1986, is one of the great tennis players of the current era. Nicknamed the 'Muscles from Mallorca' and the 'King of Clay', Nadal is a multiple Grand Slam winner and has held the World Number 1 ranking in each year since 2008.

Ramon Llull (1235-1316) was a wealthy courtier n Palma until a disastrous seduction attempt led him to retire to Puig de Randa in isolation.

150 years ago, Chopin spent a winter in Mallorca (Valldemossa). During this time he wrote letters to his friends in Paris mentioning his love for the island, but also raving against the people living on the island. It is believed that he had a mistress "George Sand" here in Mallorca.

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, whose surrealist works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy, are some of the most original of the 20th century. Miró was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona and studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí.