San Llorenc (San Lorenzo)
San Llorenc (San Lorenzo) - Beaches:
Cala Millor is a delightful, long, sandy, Blue Flag beach in the municipality of San Llorenc. It has paved access with shops, bar and restaurant and sunbeds, sun-shades and pedal boats are available for hire. For those seeking more watersports and activities there is also a surf school, surfing, water-skiing, water-paragliding, boat excursions and horse riding.
San Llorenc (San Lorenzo) - Places of interest:
There are some 77 archaeological sites which include the fortified hill positions of Sa Blanquerna, Calicant, Sa Real and Son Pua. Wells and quarries dating from prehistoric and Roman times have also been discovered here.
The Railway station, the 'Pou Vell' (a drinking and public washing place) and the Church were the main meeting points until the tourist boom of the sixties. Nowadays there is no train but the local authority is keen to restore the station so that it is once more a meeting point although with a different function from that of many years ago.
San Llorenc (San Lorenzo) - History:
The first church ever built in the district of Sant Llorenc was that in Son Vives, documented in the papal bull of Pope Innocenci IV in the year 1248. In the middle of the 14th century, after the abandonment of this old chapel, King Pere el Cerimonios gave his Royal permission to build a new church in its place in December 1360. The foundations of this church probably occupied part of the land where the present building is. After several alterations down the years, the impressive temple has a dimension of 31m x 8.5m, with six chapels most with arched roofs. The Mare de Deu Trobada chapel has a semi-spherical dome with a round window in the middle.
Visitors to the church can ask the priest to show them the ecclesiastical museum. There are six rooms joined by arched doorways, containing valuable religious curios and documents.
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