European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Orca the Airbus Selva Folk dancing group entertains visitors at open air stage near Palma. Windmills left Are still used to irrigate Majorca farms in the dry Uplands. The Harbor of Palma As seen from the Walls of the 14th Century Belmer Castle. Holiday Isle the largest of the Balearic group is Only 50 air minutes from Barcelona and rapidly becoming a Mecca for Economy minded vacationers is photos by Guenter Schuettler by Day the Sun shines from a Cloud less sky on bathers on the beached water skiers skin divers and fishermen out on a sparkling azure sea. At the evening aperitif hour every seats taken at sidewalk cafes on the tree shaded borne As Bells on trotting Carriage horses jangle a merry tune. If it s sunday afternoon at 6, the bullring is packed for Corrida. After a leisurely dinner on a hotel or pension t Errata under the stars and Over looking the Bay the Gay whirl takes Over in smart clubs with floor shows name bands and flamenco dancers and Las still Dawn so life goes in Majorca Spain s hol iday Island Paradise in the Mediterranean. It is a life enjoyed alike by millionaire yachtsmen tourists on a budget and Amer ican servicemen and their families on leave. Helped by the recent devaluation of the peseta to 60 to the Dollar 1959 is maj orca s Banner year. Business is booming on an Island that Only four decades ago had but four hotels and now boasts 500 hotels and pensions nearly All full during the summer with still More under construction. On a recent sunday airliners from allover Europe touched Down at Palma s son Bonet Airport with 2,500 White face visitors and took off. Again with 2,000 tanned departing ones. You can Fly round trip from Barcelona to palma50 minutes apart for about $10, less than first class Cabin on overnight boats from the Spanish Mainland. You can take your car with you by boat but it s an expensive Deal for big ones As the Tariff depends on  roads Are Good on the 60-by-50-mile Island and there s lots to see. Cars can be rented and bus Tours take in most of the sights. Majorca Spanish since 1343, has been held successively by phoenicians greeks by Thurston Macaulay staff writer Majorca s Long Rocky coastline interspersed with Sandy beaches offers the Holiday visitor a Host of secluded settings for enjoying the Sun and sea. Diners at the Ca n Ripoli restaurant sit amid 300-year-old wine casks. At left Luggage of arriving and departing touts piles up at Little son Bonet Airport. Feigt 12 Thi stars and strips saturday Aua 29, 1959 the stars and stripes carthaginians romans vandals moors and Spanish. The Island is Rich in history tradition folklore and color. Of the Road up to quiet Little puerto Cle seller a fishing Village with a number of Good hotels 22 Miles North of Palma you drive through Olive Groves where a gnarled tree harvested by the romans 2,000 years ago still stands. Out at Alcudia to the Northeast Amer ican and Spanish archaeologists Are currently excavating roman ruins. The caves of Drach the world s biggest offer a fabulous Chance for underground exploration. To ancient greeks it was one of the Gates to the underworld. At Petra in the Island s Rich Farmland heart there s a shrine of special interest to californians the Humble House where father Junipero Serra founder of the californian missions was born in 1713. A museum Library was opened nearby this summer. Hundreds of sail driven windmills that would have quickened the heart of Don Quixote Are part of the Majorca scene. They still Are used for grinding flour or drawing water for irrigation. Major cans have preserved their Island heritage in traditional Folk dances Many so old that their origins Are  and women living in the towns of Selva Petra inca Vallde Mosa and Solle have formed Folk dance groups for fiestas and Harvest time. They dance in local costumes of Many colors the women in Long swirling skirts the men in baggy turkish trousers. The dance group from Selva one of Thebes known has won International com petitions. Visitors go in buses from All parts of the Island to the group s dance Soh an open air stage. The repertory includes the Matei xes or courtship dance the Island s oldest done by pairs a Man and a girl. Besides dancing the Inland town of inca is noted for a cellar inn Ca n Ripoli lined with 12 enormous wine vats made of Oak and Olive Wood each Able to hold4,000 liners of the Island s Fine local wine. Roast suckling pig is the cellar s Spe Fialty. Speaking of food for breakfast on maj orca you Are served with the Coffee an unusually Light and Fluffy pastry bread called ensa Imada. The cuisine is generally excellent even at the simplest  spots that should be seen Are Vall demos where. Chopin and George san spent a Winter together in 1838, and the so called millionaires playground of for Mentor on the rugged Northeast tip of the Island. Prince Rainer. And Princess Grace honeymooned there. American travel write Temple Fielding has a Villa at Tormentor. Those with a yen for Mountain climbing will find plenty of scope in the Range that runs from the Northeast to the Southwest. Highest Peak is the 5,100-foot Puig mayor on the top of which a radar site is now being built for the 16th air Force. The mountains keep Majorca warm in Winter. Bathing is exceptionally Good at Maga luf to the West of Palma where an excellent new hotel the Atlantic has just opened and at Arenal to the East there two new big hotels have been built an unusually impressive hotel is the Bendina Between Magaluk and Palma on a Rocky Promontory amid Pine Trees you can swim there from april to november. Palma the Island s capital combines theold and new with its 14th Century Cathe dral and Mclver Castle on a Hill above the wide sweeping Bay the picturesque 17th Century streets of the old town an bustling modern City with hotels and  prices have been going up in Majorca you can still get a room and three meals a Day for $5 a person More of course in one of the big luxury establishments or less often much less. In pension or Remote inn. If you want a Villa the going rent is $40 to $50 a month even in summer. Whatever you re looking for in the Way of a Holiday Short or Long quiet or Lively Majorca has it Page 13