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Qué Celeste Festival kickoff

cartell 2020 que celesteSaturday 15 August marks the start of what is being billed as the second ever “pirate disembarkment”—a festival organised by the group Qué Celeste. The fun starts at 5.00pm with a guided kayak trip followed by a cleanup of Es Pujols beach an hour later. Festivalgoers can look forward to a special performance at 7.00pm, with a circus display to animate the crowd at Plaça d’Europa from 9.00pm. Reservations are required for all activities and can be obtained by emailing quecelestefestival@gmail.com.

The Qué Celeste Festival programme unfolds over several days :

From 8.00pm on 22/23 August, Sa Senieta will play host to a performance of “La habitación del arte”. Music by Desiré Paredes.

A bicycle ride on 29 August.

Other activities from 4–27 September, including a beach cleanup, stage productions, lectures, feminism-themed gatherings, concerts, circus performances and a slam poetry competition.

Activities are intimately-scaled and require reservations due to covid-19 prevention measures. The Consell de Formentera collaborates with Qué Celeste Festival Formentera, organisers of the event.

13 August 2020
Department of Communications
Consell de Formentera

Old La Mola windmill welcomes back visitors

foto 2020 moli vellThe Formentera heritage office reports that from 12 August La Mola’s historical windmill, El molí Vell de la Mola, is reopening for free public visits on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 5.00pm to 8.00pm.

One of seven wind-powered flour mills on Formentera and a key component of the island’s ethnological patrimony (the machinery that rendered flour milling possible remains intact within), the building is included in the local catalogue of cultural heritage sites. At the November 2019 Consell de Formentera plenary, members of the assembly voted to initiate proceedings to afford the windmill official protection as a cultural interest site, or BIC.

The monument is property of the Balearic Islands Foundation. Past partnership agreements with local government meant the foundation was responsible for staffing the site so it could be visited. That is, until difficulties with the particular formula led to consensus around the idea of leasing the site under the proviso that visits be allowed. For the next years, opening hours and visits will be handled directly by the Consell de Formentera.

12 August 2020
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera

Consell reports graffiti on historical buildings in Sant Francesc to Guardia Civil

foto 2020 pintades 2The Formentera Department of Patrimony has informed the Spanish civil guard of graffiti that appeared on various Sant Francesc buildings late at night on 5-6 August. Amounting to a total of eight acts of vandalism, spray-painted words were found scrawled across the front of the historical town council and around Jardí de ses Eres. The Consell de Formentera brigade painted over the graffiti later the same morning.

The Ajuntament Vell possesses grade B protection in Formentera’s catalogue of cultural heritage sites, and along with Jardí de ses Eres is classed as a historical building and cultural interest site in Sant Francesc. Vandalism of heritage sites is considered a criminal act.

Images of the damages were included in local government’s report to law enforcement.

11 August 2020
Department of Communications
Consell de Formentera

Heritage signs posted at monuments and along running trail

foto 2020 senyal rutes 3The Formentera Department of Tourism reports that Es Campament, three wells (Pou Marès, Pou de ses Illetes and Pou des Verro), archaeological dig sites (Cap de Barbaria I and II, Ca na Costa and Can Blai), the churches in Sant Francesc, Sant Ferran and La Mola, Sa Tanca Vella chapel, the old La Mola windmill and Es Pi des Català defense tower are among the local monuments and heritage sites to be equipped with informational displays.

Partially funded by the island’s Strategic Tourism Sectors via the Sustainable Tourism Levy (ITS), the project required an investment of €10,304 (sixty per cent from the Govern and forty per cent from the Consell de Formentera). The signs are in Catalan, Spanish and English and are geared towards, in the words of tourism marketing chief Carlos Bernús, “creating new experiences in nature, heritage, culture and sport for tourists, though islanders can enjoy them too”.

Fitness trail
Signs additionally demarcate a new running trail —Route One— on Camí des Brolls, including informational displays at the start and end. The 4.3km (one-way) trail is short and easy, and shares signs with the more difficult Route Two, which runs 10.9km.

Athletes can find their way by following little yellow runners placed along the edge of trails. The Strategic Tourism Sectors programme also contributed funding, with the Govern and Consell again splitting the remainder sixty-forty.

Since late May, birdwatchers on Camí des Brolls have also been greeted by signs as part of the same initiative. Work on the new trails took place in summer on account of emergency orders.


12 August 2020
Department of Communications
Consell de Formentera

Information on public transport

foto bus proximo ferryThe Formentera Department of Mobility reports that as of 1 August, users of the Próximo Ferry web and mobile apps (https://proximoferry.com) have been able to access timetables for public transport on Formentera.

A click on the Eivissa>Formentera section leads visitors to up-to-date details about buses connecting passengers on ferries between the two Pine Islands.

Mobility chief Rafael González described the goal as “keeping islanders and tourists in the loop about public transport options and promoting their use”. The app is known and used by a large number of people, said González, helping guarantee that info on public transport reaches the widest possible audience.

8 August 2020
Department of Communications
Consell de Formentera

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