Can Picafort’s iconic swimming pool is no more

There was a fantastic offer of disappointment in Can Picafort on Wednesday when the excavators moved in and began the system of eliminating the swimming pool by the Mar y Paz Hotel. The pool, which experienced been there for 52 many years, was emblematic for the simple fact that its complete existence additional or considerably less corresponded to how lengthy Can Picafort had been a important vacationer resort in Mallorca.

But it was also significant simply because this is the location exactly where one thing else emblematic of Can Picafort usually takes put just about every yr – people today dive into the sea for the duck swim of the fifteenth of August. The Mar y Paz is certainly embedded in Can Picafort tradition and not just a vacationer custom. The pool was each and every bit as significantly a put for citizens as it was for holidaymakers, although the duck swim is definitely an celebration for area persons.

Whilst Santa Margalida city corridor designs to create a sq. with banked terraces bordering it in the house in which the pool after was, the environmentalists GOB are demanding this. They are insisting that this house must be restored to its pure condition and are using the exact argument that they offered to problem the constructing of the ticket booths in Puerto Pollensa.

What GOB say is that the Coasts Regulation of 1988 only permits the profession of community maritime-land area, which this is, if a selected activity or set up can’t be located someplace else. A square, you would have to say, could be sited really substantially any place. The city hall, in the meantime, is urgent ahead with processing its job.