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From worthless to plaice fillet expensive piece: Mallorca's beaches have an almost unparalleled career lying. No wonder - but are they the best Wellness idea of nature. The story of the invention of a Badeparadieses.

 

The "Brünnchen of Kuhhirten" - is a name not fit for travel books and postcards. But when Oliver Francisco Berga around the year 1915 his hotel "Terminus" at Pouet d'en Vaquer opened, thought the fisherman from Palma also not yet in mass tourism and charter flights. However, Berga Oliver sensed the potential of the border strip between the water and earth. Although he too close to the sea was unpredictable and was sandy and salty, as it for the benefit of a substantial landowner had. Coastal land was worthless on Mallorca, so it was always the younger inherited.

That changed after ebenjener poor overseas Fischer Berga Oliver the beaches of Cuba and Jamaica had seen, equipped with beach chairs and Badeschaluppen for the European nobility. He knew: We can do this too. So he put a single house on the deserted beach of Palma - in the desert, between flat sloping rocks, sand seegrasbedeckte surfaces and scrub. Along the sea line he planted North African date palms and waited for the first summer. You, he presented the Caribbean on your doorstep.

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Today is called the region for the sake of simplicity Arenal, Sandy, 40,000 beds are made for the visitors. The bay is the prototype of a vacation model, which itself has survived several previous occasions: Sol y Playa, time and again fallen into disrepute, but not totzukriegen. Why?

Because there is nothing better than an afternoon in the warm sand to spend. No other natural experience is so much associated with relaxation, all other outdoor recreation activities call muscle working and push sweat. When you sweat, the sun also, but that is only cause to swim in the waves. Warm sand and cool water - the best wellness idea of nature and the perfect invitation to idleness. Faul, which we must now only be on the beach.

Beaches were fishing because

"Your footprints in the sand? Which I found yesterday?", Sang Howard Carpendale 1975. At that time in Germany linked to the beach idyll with, leave, brown skin. And Mallorca was synonymous with the beach. Those who already knew the island inside? Who knew about the possessions, the vast country estates, where until the 1950s was beneficial gewirtschaftet? Who knew from the peasant families that their Selbstversorgerhöfe only once every holy time left, perhaps for a vigil on the Nachbarhof to stand?

Palma? This was of some place a multi-trip away. The sea? People died, without ever seen up close it. The beaches? In Sa Ràpita outdated with the oxcarts Alluvial seaweed fertilizer to the fields. In Ses Salines salt is collected. In one shot Estellencs seals in the Cala of the camp appeared to get to pops, octopus, after raors, sword fish knife, after llagostas, crawfish. When you plucked Son Real fonoll Marí, sea fennel, so great to Mallorcan lunch plate pa amb oli fits. But swimming? Baden? Sunbathing?

Upon arrival of the first tourists in the two-parter, the Mallorcan really need to avert their eyes - even in the 1950s forbade the government in Madrid, out of water swimming clothes to wear. Did you move in the bathhouse. Were men and women in separate sections of beach. On Sunday afternoon, they joked with each other, drank geeiste almond milk, sang. In full clothing. Bikini, what then? Brown, why?

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Giuseppe looks grimly through the car windscreen, "Where the hell is this supposed to be?" He asks offended and typing on the paper with the address of the "Agriturismo Acampora." Behind him rise the mountains of the Pollino massif in the sun sky, between us hangs the scent of honey and bitter herbs.

"Give me the number," he bids kramt and gruff in his denim jacket after the mobile phone. In the rough dialect of the mountain people he chats with a lady at the other end of the line, then his face brightens at. "I bring you out," he was still buzzing and is already with his pitch-black Vespa disappeared behind the curve.

In madcap pace is 350 meters up the switchbacks, faster, until finally Giuseppe fully meets the brakes in front and an old farm with a very steep ramp to stop coming. Good mood, he welcomed a small, suntanned woman in the antique rose knit sweater - House mistress Maria Francomano, as it turns out, someone knows that he knows, and thus something of a family member. Maria mustered their new host by the cautious side, and then kindly invited to dinner.

"The outrageous good fortune, to be born here"

All make it to the covered terrace and comfortable blink in the sun. "Glorious", Giuseppe sighs and looks over the valley a few miles distant beaches of the Ionian Sea. Meadows, thickly forested hillsides, sheep and shepherd dogs dominate the picture, it smells of shrubs and herbs unknown. The first almond trees begin to bloom, the earth räkelt after the long winter in the sun.

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"Thank God back in the homeland!" Three decades has spent Giuseppe in Milan, as a bricklayer and carpenter earns his money. Now he's finally returned after Calabria, "where the olives grow in your own garden and caves to invite bathwater."

Rosa Maria's daughter shares his enthusiasm. "I was simply outrageous luck that I was born here," she says and leaves the ice on her left eye compared to rest. "I love this country, our animals, the wine that we ourselves grow." Fruits, olive oil, sausage, honey or jam - in the case of Mamma Maria follows the concept of agrotourism simple rules: everything on the table, even bred, reared, made - and so overwhelmingly delicious that you prefer the whole day only would eat.

Already with their first astonished the hostess snack: It ranges even anise-baked bread and a kind of apple panettone. Both looks unspectacular, but is exceptionally tasty. There is a shimmering glass of reddish liqueur, which I am skeptical of the cost, but am completely confused: An aroma armada, my taste buds gestürmt - Nelke front is followed by a laurel and citrus notes that I can not identify partout.

The heavy sweetness burns so much that it is tilted, the miracle drink only in homeopathic doses to enjoy - unless you have the constitution of Giuseppe, the cheerful glass after another drink, and be satisfied with both hands on the belly knocks.

Already, I am captivated by the city and its delights. Here everything goes its course and is a sublime way of course. The limbs are sluggish and sleepy, but Maria and her husband Salvatore have no time for leisure: "Mangiai, mo u vaju fatigue," is the name of a Calabrian proverb - "I've eaten, now I go to work."

Clack and crash into eerie depth

After hens, dog, rabbit, goats and pigs fed and the house has put in order, Maria decides to send me to show the area. We run through the karst landscape and sunny looking for peonies, which here in large numbers and flourish for centuries as a cure for gout, epilepsy, children's and women's diseases.

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Maria pushes me velvet, farnähnliche a leaf yarrow in hand. Nothing special, you should think, but when I find it between his fingers grinding, spread it a beguiling scent of parsley, rosemary and bergamot. Even Achilles, in the Trojan war hemostatic effect of the herb have used - even today many Calabrian swear to his healing power.

In a grove rests Mary on a rock, and indicates an inconspicuous opening in the thicket. "Throw a stone purely times," she says. I'm looking for a brotlaibgroßen chunks and throw it into the hole. But instead of a muffled crash is a vastly clack and crash to hear incessantly dancing with the stone walls of the cave, until he barely 700 meters in depth to rest.

We are on the "abisso del Bifurto," also a "wolf cave" called karst cave near Cerchiara di Calabria. Already in the 10th Century monks lived here, and later studied predator and pastoralists in the abyss refuge. Today dare only tourists and well-equipped cavers not easy descent into the underworld.

Life in the karst landscape has shaped Maria: "I make perfume or chocolates with no joy, I do prefer stones gift," she says smiling, while a huge chunk admired by the wayside. "Looks like a foot, or?" Would prefer the 60-year-old monster, the same take, but common sense and the pain in the knee to keep the upper hand.

Drama about the stolen Madonna

A bit of wellness for the afflicted limbs would not be bad, but the nearby thermal pool of the nymph grotto only opens its doors in June. Already in antiquity the Sybariten bathed in a bubbling, sulphurous springs and enjoyed the shade and scattered sunlight, the interior cave diving in milky light. Today, a modern bath and Spa established.

We take a look into the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Armi ", a lavishly restored sanctuary, which is about ten kilometers from Cerchiara away to the slopes of Mount Sellaro hugs. In the elaborately decorated Mamorkapelle stands at the heart of the former monastery: the black stone engraved portrait of the Madonna delle Armi. Many miraculous cures and Marian apparitions will be here over the centuries have given the belief in the Madonna is still unbroken.

As the thieves on the evening of the 6th May 1977 at the Sacred Stone is pulled, there was bewilderment among the faithful: "You have given us the Madonna delle Armi stolen, we are now motherless," it was in a folk song. "Let us not in the lurch," prayed the town, "because without you we can not be." And lo and behold: Only a day later Carabinieri discovered the relic in the fields of Sibari, where the robbers had hidden them. The world was back in order.

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Eng rooted in the Albanian culture is the soul-1000-Civita place. From here we descend down to the Roman "Devil's Bridge" in the shadow of the mighty "Timpe" spectacularly steep rising cliffs, looks like a tiny toy model. Heaps rises the red desert rock wall across the river Raganello, its icy cold waters in summer canyoning groups wade to the gorge close-up. Also rafting and hang gliding is offered here - the dramatic perspectives are sometimes staggering.

After so much fresh air and mountain scenery, exciting longs of "agrotourism" after only one: that Mary finally disappears into the kitchen to prepare their delicacies. Farewell is personally gezwirbelte Raschiatelli pasta with tomatoes and ricotta. I eat so much that hardly any room for the main course - a discreetly seasoned, salt-rich but very meaningful organic lamb, which I would love a few weeks. As a supplement, there are scrambled eggs with fried potatoes and fresh peas.

By sitting at the table Salvatore Maria's husband, a thoughtful man with sharp creases around the mouth. He cares for nature, his heart: "Many Calabrian destroy their environment because they are ignorant," he laments. Only in summer 2007, arsonists had 2000 hectares of pine forests were destroyed. "One should not always just think of the profit, but also the friendship," says Salvatore. "People like to take is to go to school - you always learn something new."

I would like to learn how Maria prepared her delicious tarts. Oranges, figs, almonds and fragrant roses after jam, I acknowledge, but there was still something else inside. Mary just smiles and gives wine.

Watts for all worms.

An island of Eco-Energy: Föhr will now expand its total electricity with solar cells and wind turbines deny. And attract more young visitors - for example with high-tech gadgets for mobile.

 

Wyk on Föhr - For courageous natures boots do not come into question: Ins watts before the North Island Föhr go, at least in the summer semester only barefoot. But on this spring day, the water not ten degrees. Even the sun warms the Ostwind little. Stubenrauch Walter, director of the National Center on Föhr Wyk, Watts knows that his fascination as well as its pitfalls. He picks today prefer to protective boots. "Many underestimate the Wadden Sea," says the 52-year-old former biology and history teacher.

Stubenrauch grave stands a steel fork firmly in the North Sea floor in front of the South Wyker and promotes a remarkable worm watts to light. Of these, up to 20-centimeter-long worms live up to 50 on a square meter. They dwell in the j-shaped tubes, eat their way through the soil, digest the organic material in it and try to do not even hungry birds to catch.

Because life in the most productive ecosystems in the world largely in secret rages, tourists have the ground beneath their feet hold. "We have a Bück National Park," explains Stubenrauch guests.

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From their island and sisters Amrum Sylt shielded against the North Sea, is located in the middle of the Föhr Nationalpark "Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea." In addition to pensioners and patients come mainly school children and families with children Walter Stubenrauch guides.

Indeed, in recent years, the nearly 83-square-meter island a reputation as a family vacation goal. This should remain so. However, the classic family is rare, Föhr looking for alternatives. Singles, young couples without children and travelers in the retirement age have some other claims, knows the head of the Tourism Marketing GmbH Föhr, Sandra Lessau.

Master suites in the house

The season in the spring and fall outside of the holiday should be extended. "We can not with families with school-age children, plus we have people from 50 or 55", said Lessau. The suppliers must be based on shorter-term bookings and shorter travel setting. These are more hotels with higher levels of need.

A first step in the marketing Föhr has already been made. Since early 2007, all communities in the tourism GmbH. They offer a unified Internet presence and a common reservation platform. Last year, a tourism concept Föhr decided by 2012 to achieve its goals.

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Marianne and Brar Roeloffs have already reacted and her small bed and breakfast hotel "Rackmers yard" in the contemplative Friesdorf Oevenum expanded. In the old master of the house and in two new buildings, they offer eleven suites under thatch to meet the specific needs of couples and young families are. "The bookings are very short and usually for a few days," confirms the trend Roeloffs Marianne. "2009 is indeed a Spätbucherjahr how the experts have predicted."

Although the recent opening of the new building with four suites, only a few weeks ago, the landlord already look to the future: "We now have a size that is economical for us, but we plan to have a café with a terrace open," says Marianne Roeloffs.

Fries Museum comes to mobile phones

Besides the traditional attractions like the beach, sea and mudflats, and thatched-roof villages Fries romance, golf and sailing marina wants Föhr future other accents. Sun wants the island as a pioneer in the use of renewable energy market.

Many farmers have realized that with large solar panels on their barn roofs not only a green image, but also a lot of money can get. For years now rotate, 19 wind turbines on Föhr distributed. "We want to make it through five more to replace and spatially summed up," says the mayor of Wyk on Föhr, Heinz Lorenzen. There are a nation politically but still no green light.

The 63-year-old honorary chief of the island's capital, before he retired teacher, can be a body of information on renewable energy on Föhr imagine. "We have a hundred-percent target and do not want to stand still," says Lorenzen. That is, to be Föhr with solar and wind energy and geothermal energy at least as much electricity to be produced, as residents and tourists consume. That is a lot. Because the islanders to come throughout the year at least 200,000 guests, for a total of 1.9 million overnight care.

Even with modern communications Föhr wants to stay ahead. Young people who prefer an SMS Feriengruß tap as postcards to write, it should well find that their Internet-enabled mobile phone photo is now also a travel guide is: At 140 points like the Cathedral in Nieblum or Fries museum in Wyk, they need only a sign with a sign code can be photographed and then on a special Web page to read the pertinent information. "Föhr, this new technology as the first widely available," says Lessau.

Tuff, Trulli, Tarantella.

Hardly a region of Italy has with its dusty image to struggle as the Salento peninsula. They start here at the coolest parties, dumbfound makers engaged with interactive art for everyone. An ode to the young and modern Lecce.

 

Lecce is the sun-rich, fragrant queen of the Baroque, a city that lascivious plays with her curves and a dress with lavish ornaments bears. But the lady who embraces the sometimes threatens to smother: "O God, how tired I am the eternal folk have," groans Mimmo, trendy DJ with the right glasses and a master's degree in philosophy in the luggage. "Tarantella and the trulli - the only thing the people of Apulia mind."

Indeed, the region has far more to offer than the famous Trulli, round houses with pointed roofs, and traditional dances - and the 34-year-old cultural workers hopes that the world is finally responsible. Especially, the dark-haired giant with the child's face in a top-up location - a villa in the middle of a giant olive grove, surrounded by lemon trees and a grotesquely large cactus figs.

While a man with a stunning resemblance to Jim Belushi Gassenhauer of the eighties under the People's will, is booming in the next room a contemporary electric sound. Already in the afternoon hundreds of fans crowd in a small space together, drinking bad wine cellar from Mamas and dance as Pogo omitted that one believes in a time machine to be advised. "Great, how are all rauslassen steam and everything," says bookseller Walther, who is also now and then turns to the controls. In times of crisis and total political apathy is the best way, sometimes off.

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Mimmo do not want to leave the hook plate and developed with friends from the club "world of Kappa" the concept for a culture magazine. Under the name "Krill" is to appear three times a year - the avant-garde in Lecce has a penchant for the unusual in Italian "K" with its crunching the consonant combinations.

Antiakademisch and easy to understand it in the booklet to "points of contact between external and subjective fantasy world" go. "Knowledge is for everyone, it must not be elitist," says Mimmo, in schools of philosophical and cultural concepts are discussed. "We see ourselves as a translator."

"Young Ideas for a better Apulia"

Friends Mimmos Maurizio and Michele, the concrete thing: They want to bring art and accessible for all. Away from the conventional exhibition in the center of Lecce, the two in an effort to "manufacture Knos" established a laboratory in the wild with all the ingredients of a modern culture cocktails will be juggled.

30 years is working metal workers and electrical engineer at the massive workbenches, the 4000 square-meter hall in the Via Vecchia Frigole. Then the training center was closed and was abandoned ten years. "When we first came, the water dripped from the ceiling and the whole room was filled with rusty machines that have not wanted to have," recalls the photographer and recycling fan Maurizio Butazzo.

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They have always had him isolated, deserted places fascinated, stood fast for him and his partner Michele Bee said: "The place is fantastic, let us revive him!" The two designed a concept for a multimedia event center and presented it to the province of Lecce. And lo and behold: It allowed them to use the premises, provided that they themselves put it back into standard Bee Butazzo and sold all the machines and made with a starting capital of several thousand euros to the work.

For months, was planned, rehabilitated, renovated and fantasises. Numerous projects and clubs emerged, until in November 2007 "Knos" was born: The giant complex, presented in a new guise - with cinema, recording studio, editing rooms, a media library, a children's library, exhibition spaces, workshops, rehearsal rooms for music, theater and dance - and, of course, a chic bar, even an in-house radio station went on air.

"We want not just art exhibit, we want to produce here on the spot," says Bee, a small, athletic man with clear ideas and stunning Hollywood smile. The concept "Knos" sit on experiments, research and education, "it could be almost a kind of Bauhaus new name," he says smiling. Anyway, it was important that people from the neighborhood to the creative processes teilhätten.

With the offer for children in the first year was significant: There were courses in creative writing and street art, had a chilling drama with the name "Calixte Hountondji Kokou" African puppets dance. In the "smallest circus in the world" could the kids acrobatics and magic tricks to learn, and true to the motto "Even scientists were times children" in laboratory experiments.

The cultural program was filled with nano-tech design, vintage digital art, architecture, evenings and short presentations. Work courses in the body ( "What comes after the exhaustion?") Competing with projects such as citizens' ideas for a boy Apulia better. "

German, French, Japanese and Latin American artists represented - and also the meta-level was not too short: "What do I to the culture?" asked the makers of the OST (Open Space Technology), one in the eighties in the USA by Harrison Owen developed technology in the public discourse.

Unemployment and emigration: "We'll stay here"

Currently, the entire area of the factory from the ground up restored - an expensive venture, to be part of the "Film Commission" of the province of Puglia and Lecce is supported. "A General sponsor would be great," says Michele, but in southern Italy is not so easy to find. "Yet we are urgently looking for economic independence, in order not to get political."

Puglia has always been an economically weak region. Unemployment is rising, and increasingly well-educated young people are choosing to emigrate. Solo from 1995 to 2004 left more than 120,000 graduates their homeland, not a few in just four million inhabitants throughout the region.

All the more worthy of respect the commitment of the "Knos collective" because all the volunteer work here and put a lot of time and energy into her job. PR woman Gemma has just completed her MA in Literatures made, Michele is his main philosophy lecturer at the University of Lecce.

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Of course, all in northern Italy can stay where they studied or worked there. "Even though we are in Milan, Bologna and Turin had a better chance - we will try anyway, here something to move and build," says Michele. "With the mentality that prevails with us, there are sometimes severe storms, but then again grow flowers," says Maurizio and added a wink: "With thorns."

Ladiner the culinary arts.

Lived a long time the people of the Dolomites in Ladiner Clinch with the larger neighboring states. The convergence takes place nowadays in the kitchen instead of - for example, when pasta-cooking course.

 

To the whitewashed walls sneaks an inconspicuous figure. The work is simple clothing style, face weathered and tanned from working outdoors. Fleetingly she mustered the visitors out of sight angles. Short nod, but no greeting. When did the shape of this place is not much to report. A day laborer, perhaps. One, based on the old farm in South Tyrol Val Badia (Ladin Name: Val Badia) erschuftet his daily bread.

Due to a heavy wooden door to get inside. The iron door handle is angeraut of rain, snow and the sweat of the occurrence. The
Court Sotciastel lies on 1400 meters altitude in the municipality Abbey (Ladin: Badia) and near the famous Heiligkreuzkofel. The photogenic mountain is at sunset in the mountain discipline "Alpenglow" the rival relaxed in the shade and is on many postcards and paintings.

In the living room of the house, everything is in place: the stove in the corner, the photos of the grandparents on the wall, the crucifix above the door - and half a dozen tourists on the corner, at the house mistress Erika Pitscheider want to learn how the ladino peasant generations before cooked. And it still do today.

Men on the runway, women in the cooking class

Erika Pitscheider chef wears a checkered apron, her forearms are strong with flour pollinating. Traces of the preparations for her cooking class, they once a week to deter and to the mostly German and Italians to participate. In the majority are women, their husbands not to the famous ski slopes of Alta Badia, or the wildly romantic hiking trails to follow.

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Ladin dishes live from simple ingredients. The barren soil in the steep slopes of the Dolomite valleys is just under a lot of physical effort to elicit more than grass for cattle. Fruit, cereals, meat and vegetables were previously hard-earned. Today, much of valleys with a milder climate was introduced.

Paradoxically, the cooking classes, in which Erika Pitscheider the simple regional dishes prepared in the Val Badia, a decent Zubrot for the family. It has to a certain degree of local notoriety brought - as the preservation of the Ladin cuisine. And so part of the Ladino culture.

My favorite shows Erika Pitscheider the manufacture of Turtres. These are fried dumplings filled with spinach and curd. There is also what with potato or sauerkraut filling. In neighboring German Pusteria, the gateway to the Val Badia, the Turtres under the name Tirtlan known. The names come from the Latin word from torta "round bread".

"A simple dish with simple ingredients," says Erika Pitscheider, "and simply nachzukochen". The Turtres were a symbol of the history of Ladiner: The best of the what could be found. In every respect. Ladiner centuries lived in complete isolation and abject poverty. Until the fifties the tourism gorgeous mountain panorama of the Val Badia discovered, and especially the National Park Fanes-Senes-Prague, the picturesque effect almost unreal. The stranger brought prosperity in the mountains.

Plaything of politics

But the mentality of many Ladiner is still characterized by restraint. Guests encounter it polite, but reserved. They rented rooms, but strangers can not look into the innermost. "It takes a long time until a Ladiner opens," says Erika Pitscheider, "it remains under himself and does not talk much. Just like my husband out there." When the supposed day laborers in front of the house is therefore the husband of Erika Pitscheider, the owner of Sotciastel.

For centuries, the ball Ladiner a game of politics. This has worked for generations in the mind of the people dug. Once populated mountain peoples romanische an area from the Adriatic to the Gotthard in Switzerland ranged. Migrations and territorial losses restricted territory are increasingly one. In Italy, about 30,000 live Ladiner. They are spread over five valleys in three different provinces are: Alto Adige, Trentino and Veneto. Their language is much more familiar with the Romansch used in the Swiss canton of Grisons maintained.

Neither Ladin or Romansh dialects are Italian, as is often erroneously suspected. "It hurt our pride," says Erika Pitscheider. Even their Italian guests, it must, by its own tutoring in geography type. "Many do not know that we speak a language of its own," says Erika Pitscheider. Only three town - in Italian, Ladin and German - can be found in some ring.

Culinary approximation

Between the Ladins and their guests will find rapprochement today for the sake of simplicity to culinary paths instead - Against man's heart is through his stomach. A few miles the valley well wealthy tourists love about the award-winning cuisine: Nowhere else in Italy is the density of Michelin stars as high as in Alta Badia on the southern end of the Val Badia. One of the three-star restaurants in Alta Badia is the "de Stüa Michil" in Corvara. The Turtres be here with Ladin barley soup served.

Eponym is the gourmet cellar Michil Costa. With his Hotel La Perla and a strong sense of style and Feingeistiges he has ensured that Alta Badia after a meeting in the Alps has moulted celebrities. Until recently, president of Costa ladino community of interest "Uniun Generela di Ladins". He is considered one of the architects of the ladino thing. Unhurried he quotes Goethe and wisdom of the Dalai Lama. The former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, he mentioned in passing as "a very good friend."

In the background of his
Hotel La Perla outshines the mighty mountain Sassongher the scene. In his private salon is Mürbegebäck and Costa coffee with a shot of grappa kredenzen rare. "Works only with the past present and future," he ponders. "As a minority, we have only one chance, if we create this balance."

Change is regarded with suspicion in the Val Badia. Few hoteliers dared so far to step into the modern age. Anders Walter Craffonara. In the village asterisk (Ladin: La Ila), not far from Corvara, had a good going Craffonara hotel - and had it demolished to make it against the modern four-star hotel, "Lara Ciasa" einzutauschen. "I would have to retire," says Craffonara, "but my wife and I wanted to know it again." The modern architecture of his hotel, while the guests, but not by the older villagers loved. "We Ladiner must move with the times if we want to survive," says the experienced hotelier.

Change is in the farmhouse kitchen by Erika Pitscheider not an issue. Guests looking for here is the old Ladin - and in the form of Turtres they can even try and ausbacken. Prepared by an old recipe, which remained unchanged until today.

Irrgänge included.

Stony hills, enchanted oak forests - and always a terrific view of the sea: the island continue until 140 kilometers trail leads far beyond the Serra Tramuntana. Step by Step Discover a quiet wilderness hikers that no one should underestimate.

 

On old Köhler, post and pilgrim routes from one end of the Tramuntana Mountains, on the other eight days this walk from the yacht harbor of Port d'Andratx to the 2000 year old Roman bridge near Pollença. A challenging tour, 140 kilometers walk along beaches, to luxury villas, farms, cliffs, in a cemetery full of graves of artists, in a reservoir, at the NATO radar equipment for the western Mediterranean Sea and holiest monastery in Mallorca.

The GR 221 (Gran Recorregut - big route) is also known as Ruta de Pedra en Sec known, the dry stone route. He leads through rocky hills, enchanted woods, postcard villages, Ölbaumhaine and over mountains, the Alps, according to smell, and is the first island-wide trail.

Pop producer Cretu must demolish his villa.

18 million euros, a lot of trouble now and the end: After years of litigation, the former Sandra-producer and "Enigma" founder Michael Cretu his luxury estate in Ibiza off. The reason? A violation of the building.

 

Ibiza - The excavators have already begun with the demolition - now there is no turning back. 13 years ago from Romania had the pop-born producer Cretu its 3150 square meter property in Sant Antoni in the west of Ibiza in a nature reserve built. According to media reports, he had among other things, a wooded hillside can be removed. Environmentalists complained against the construction and got now by the Supreme Court in Madrid right.

"This is a historic victory," said Neus Prats from the environmental organization GEN-GOB. Jaume Roig Cretus lawyer criticized his client had been punished particularly hard because he is a prominent foreigners had. The other side has admitted that the demolition in the fight against the architectural on the island an example had been.

The cypress and palm trees surrounding property, which the newspaper "El Pais" as a mixture of the monastery and castle describes, is more than 18 million euros worth. Cretu is initially received a building permit. This was later revoked, it was said. The former Balearic Government have even passed a law specifically to prevent demolition, but also did nothing.

Cretu is, inter alia, as a producer of pop singer Sandra ( "Mary Magdalene") announced that he 1988 to 2008 and was married some 32 million albums sold. The couple lived with their two children in Ibiza. In the nineties, he celebrated with the project "Enigma" world success.

Boris Becker was also on the neighboring island of Mallorca in the past with his villa problems. The former tennis star had about half of his estate in Artà tear, because it is in a conservation area had been built.