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Magaluf (or Magalluf) is a popular resort on the West Southwest coast of Mallorca, which is most well known for its abundant nightlife, fiesta and partying. The resort lies right next to the resort of Palma Nova and the nearest beach of Palma Nova, Playa de Son Maties is practically a part of Magaluf alwell. Magaluf has its own large main beach, Playa de Magaluf and there is small beach further South called Cala Vinyes, which is also considered part of Magaluf.
Magaluf is popular among young party people who are drawn to the resort by bars and nightclubs like BCM which is the biggest in Mallorca, as well as others like Bananas and Boomerangs, but the resort also offers entertainment during the daytime - there are two water fun parks and a go carting track within Magaluf.
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Cheap Hotels in Magaluf
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Activities in Magaluf
Water sports: Swimming, windsurfing, kitesurfing, pedal boats, banana and doughnut rides
Water fun parks: There are two water fun parks in Magaluf, Aqualand & Western Waterpark
Cruises: various daily glass bottom boat and catamaran cruises and a weekly cruise to Port d'Andratx on board the Britannia Jet. You can board cruises from the peninsula between Playa de Palma Nova and Playa des Carregador or at the Southern end of Playa de Son Maties. A wonderful underwater experience is available on board the Nemo submarine, which takes you underwater for 50 minutes down to depths of up to 30m below surface. Nemo submarine rides are available from Magaluf.
Sports: Tennis, Bendinat Golf 6km away, Poniente Golf 5km away and Santa Ponsa Golf I & II both about 8km away, Andratx Golf 14km away next to Camp de Mar resort, bicycling and walking
Other: Minigolf at Fantasia Golf which has three 18-hole courses in tropical settings located by Es Carregador beach in Palma Nova, Go Carting close to Aqualand, Marineland aquatic dolphin shows in Portals Nous approx. 3 km from Magaluf, weekly markets in Calvià (Mondays), Palma (Saturdays) and Andratx (Wednesdays), Gran Casino Mallorca in Magaluf.
Beaches of Magaluf
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Magaluf has its own large main beach, Playa de Magaluf and there is small beach further South called Cala Vinyes, which is also considered part of Magaluf. The beaches in Palma Nova are also right next to Magalluf.
Nightlife in Magaluf
Magaluf could be considered the party center of Mallorca, so there is no shortage of nightclubs, discos and bars. Some of the largest and most well known iclude BCM, Bananas and Boomerangs. If you plan on partying a lot you might like the Magaluf Club Pass.
Getting Around in Resort
- on foot
- public bus
- taxi
- bicycle
- pedaling carts
- car or motorcycle
Tourist Information centers in Magaluf
Magaluf Tourist Information Office
C/ Pere Vaquer Ramis,1
07181 Magaluf
Tel: +34 971 131126
E-mail: omtmagaluf@calvia.com
Palma Nova Tourist Information Office
Passeig de la Mar, 13
07181 Palma Nova
Tel: +34 971 682365
E-mail: omtpalmanova@calvia.com
Safety
General emergency tel: 112
Ambulance tel: 061
Fire department tel: 085
Spanish police general tel: 091
Calvia Fire Brigade
C/ Jaume I no. 121
07180 Santa Ponça
Tel: +34 971 690080
Calvia Civil Guard
C/ Miquel de los Santos Oliver no. 12
and in Palma Nova (by Post Office)
C/ na Boira
07181 Palma Nova
Calvia police station
Carrer d'Alicant. Polígon Son Bugadelles
07180 Santa Ponça
Tel: +34 971 003300
E-mail: proteccioncivil@calvia.com
Healthcare and Doctors in Magaluf
The best way to take care of your health while on holiday is prevention.
Many hotels have a doctor visit the hotel premises several times a week, but you can also go to the medical centers directly.
Municipal Basic Healthcare Unit - Palma Nova
C/ na Boira no. 2
07181 Palma Nova
Tel: +34 971 683775
Hospiten Espana - Clinica Juaneda
Avda. Son Matías, 1
07181 Palma Nova
Tel: +34 971 681518
24h medical service: 900 254 692 (free phone)
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| Gran Casino | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
| Produced by | Oscar Dancigers |
| Written by | Mauricio Magdaleno Edmundo Báez |
| Starring | Libertad Lamarque Jorge Negrete Meche Barba El trio Calaveras |
| Distributed by | Ultramar Films |
Release date | |
Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Gran Casino (Alternate title: En el viejo Tampico) is a 1947 Mexican film. It was written by Mauricio Magdaleno and Edmundo Baez, based on a story by Michel Weber, and directed by Luis Buñuel.
Plot[edit]
Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Demetrio (Julio Villarreal) are a pair of footloose cowboys in turn-of-the-century Mexico who are in prison on dubious charges. As Gerardo sings and strums on his guitar, Demetrio saws the bars of their cell, enabling them to escape. They come upon a small oil field operated by José Enrique (Francisco Jambrina), an entrepreneur from Argentina who is refusing to sell out to evil oil barons who threaten the workers. Gerardo persuades José to give work to him and his friends, and after he and Demetrio recruit more workers, they're able to rejuvenate the struggling operation. Just as their fortunes are on the rise, however, the oilman disappears and is feared murdered. Demetrio takes over the operation next, but, again, the night before the oil is to start pumping, he goes to the casino and falls for Camelia (Mercedes Barba), the same girl José was last seen with before he vanished, and he too disappears.
José's sister Mercedes (Libertad Lamarque) travels to Mexico to find out what's become of him, and when she learns that Gerardo has taken over as manager, she's convinced that Gerardo and his pals are to blame. Wanting to know more about Gerardo and his cronies, she takes a job as a singer at 'Gran Casino,' a rowdy nightclub near the oil fields. In time, she strikes up a romance with the good-hearted roughneck and learns the identity of her brother's real enemy—Don Fabio (José Baviera), the local front for Big Oil.
Background[edit]
Libertad Lamarque[edit]
From the release of the film Honeysuckle in 1938, Libertad Lamarque was the most popular artist in Argentine cinema.[1] She had made her name on stage and radio as a tango singer and she was able to capitalize on that success by combining her singing and acting abilities in pictures that pulled their melodramatic plots straight from the tales told in popular tangos.[2] She often played the part of a tango singer whose romance with a wealthy suitor is thwarted by his snobbish family, making her a compelling symbol of porteño popular culture with a strong anti-elitist identification.[2] In 1945, Larmarque starred in La cabalgata del circo, a pot-boiler about a theatrical troupe in nineteenth-century Argentina, which included in the cast as a supporting player, Eva Duarte, who was being courted by then Colonel Juan Perón, who was on his way to becoming President of the country.[3] Tensions on the set ran high, as Duarte flaunted her relationship with Argentina's strongman by turning up late every day, having him pick her up from the studio in his state limousine and generally behaving as if she were the star of the picture.[4] When Duarte sat in Lamarque's chair one day, Lamarque slapped her across the face, sparking a cause célèbre that delighted Duarte's many enemies.[3] Lamarque added to the intrigue by suggesting that the two had been vying for the attentions of Perón.[5] After October 17, 1945, Loyalty Day, when demonstrations organized with the cooperation of Duarte resulted in Perón's release from a brief stay in jail, Lamarque's films were banned in Argentina.[4] The next year, after Duarte and Perón had married and Perón had been elected President of Argentina, Lamarque fled Buenos Aires for Mexico City, where her films had been extremely popular for years.[6]
Oscar Dancigers[edit]
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A French national of Russian-Jewish origin, Oscar Dancigers had fled the Nazis in 1940, due to his membership in the Communist Party, and settled in Mexico, where in short order he had founded Ultramar Films and achieved considerable success as a small independent producer.[7][8] Dancigers specialized in assisting U.S. film companies with on-location production in Mexico.[9] As such, his company was a direct beneficiary of the American Good Neighbor Policy, under which Mexico received enormous exportations of raw film stock from the U.S. government.[10]
References[edit]
- ^Finkielman, Jorge (2004). The Film Industry in Argentina: An Illustrated Cultural History. Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 227. ISBN978-0786416288.
- ^ abKarush, Matthew B. (2010). 'Populism, Melodrama, and the Market', in The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina, ed. by Matthew B. Karush and Oscar Chamosa. Durham NC: Duke University Press. p. 27. ISBN978-0822347385.
- ^ abFraser, Nicholas and Marysa Navarro (1996). Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 42. ISBN978-0393315752.
- ^ abBarnes, John (1996). Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Eva Perón. New York: Grove Press. p. 52. ISBN0-8021-3479-3.
- ^'Libertad Lamarque'. The Telegraph. 14 Dec 2000. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^Azzi, Maria Susana (2002). 'The Tango, Peronism, and Astor Piazzolla During the 1940s and '50s', in From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music, ed. by Walter Aaron Clark. New York: Routledge. p. 28. ISBN978-0815336402.
- ^Rebecca Mina Schreiber «Cold War Exiles in Mexico» (p. 71)
- ^Polizzotti, Mark (2008). Los Olvidados. London: British Film Institute. p. 22. ISBN978-1844571215.
- ^Simmonds, Roy S (2011). The Two Worlds of William March. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. p. 288. ISBN978-0817356873.
- ^Schreiber, Rebecca M. (2008). Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. p. 73. ISBN978-0816643080.