| Mallorca´s marvels and natural charms first began to be discovered
during the middle of the last century with the arrival of eccentrics
and European academics. Archduke Louis Salvador of Austria, J.B. Laurense,
Chopin and Georges Sands, Rubén Darío, Robert Graves, Joan Miró and
a large number of famous artists came to know the island and many
lived and died here.
Even so, in 1950 visitors to Mallorca totalled only 98.000 people.
Whereas in 1975 a figure of almost 3 million tourists was reached.
At present the figure has spiralled, and about Six million tourists
come to the island every year. To accommodate for such large numbers
of people Mallorca has a wide range of accommodation including comfortable
modern hotels of different categories and prices, guest houses,
hostels, bed and breakfast, camp sites and even accommodation in
monasteries.
In
total there are some 3 million beds available. The majority of hotels
and apartments are situated nearby the island's more than one hundred
beaches, and have been designed with the tourist's enjoyment in
mind. More recently, the old houses of the island's inland towns
and villages have been restored to offer alternative accommodation.
Over sixty rural houses, set in the midst of the splendid, yet peaceful
Mallorcan countryside are now available to hire on a daily, weekly,
or monthly basis.
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