In December 2019, a program of activities was launched around the plague epidemic of 1820, which affected in a very special way in Mallorca in the small towns of Artà, Sant Llorenç des Cardassar and Son Servera. No one could imagine then that two months later the whole world would be under the effects of the pandemic caused by Covid19.
The exhibition The Last Plague of Europe now comes to the Auditori d'Alcúdia. After the inauguration, the conference Els mallorquins i els epidèmies. De la Pesta a l'Covid19. From Plague to Covid19, by Pere Salas, Professor of Contemporary History at the UIB.