What exactly does Mallorca celebrate every 12 September, and since when? Historian Gabriel Ensenyat explains it in Calvià. 📜🏰

Calvià Town Council, together with the Consell de Mallorca and Obra Cultural Balear Calvià, presents this talk based on the book by Gabriel Ensenyat Pujol, published by Illa Edicions.

📚 LA FESTA DEL 12 DE SETEMBRE. THE INVENTION OF A FACT?

📅 Friday 16 October 2026

🕐 7 pm

📍 Teatre Sa Societat, Calvià village

🎟️ Free entry

📖 The talk

12 September is Mallorca Day: it marks the arrival of King Jaume I's troops on the island in 1229. Behind the date lies a much longer story, with centuries of debate about what was being remembered, how it was celebrated and who decided its meaning.

Ensenyat traces that history and asks an uncomfortable yet fascinating question: how much of a national day is historical fact, and how much is a later construction?

🎓 The speaker

Gabriel Ensenyat Pujol is a historian and lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands, specialising in the early modern history of Mallorca and the author of many works on the island's identity and memory.

ℹ️ Good to know: the talk is in Catalan. Free entry while seats last.

✨ An evening to better understand the history Mallorca celebrates every September.