The world is changing and Ibiza since the 1950’s has always been a front runner. The island has a strong magnetism from which creative power arises. One of the enormous challenges today is how to consciously change people’s habits of using plastic produce and what to do with all the garbage that can’t be properly […]
The beginning of change We’ve been taken by surprise. It all had to stop. The virus that we thought would never reach us is now all over the world. It’s amazing how after very few days of confinement and after the Government statement saying that it might take longer before we can again enjoy being […]
Ibiza packs in a lot of nature: red earth fields and mountains, pine covered hills, bright pink and red bougainvillea, wild rosemary and fennel and many indigenous plants and animals. But many times, you are walking around, and it is very difficult to identify the large variety of plants and animals typologies. What plant is […]
In Ibiza, autumn and winter seasons have always been associated with the flavour and heat of oil, and the festival of the “matanzas”. This was the time when the ancient oil mills were still present in many homes, and family members were invited to take part in killing the family pig. The island’s families lived […]
Ibiza’s varied flora includes close to a thousand species and is mostly integrated by Mediterranean elements. It was around five million years ago that the Pitiusas (the name given to Ibiza and Formentera islands by the Greeks, translating as “the pine-covered islands”) were separated from the mainland, and Ibiza’s own unique vegetation began to form. A period of […]
