HISTORY The name of Llucmajor is probably composed by the Latin words lucus maioris, which mean "greater forest". Semantically, it is likely that the called farmstead Llucmajor was populated with a great forest. The prehistoric settlement of Capocorb Vell, in the south of Llucmajor, is the most known exponent of the Bronze Age. It represents a myth within the prehistoric investigation thanks to its conservation and it is the most important talayotic settlement in the East Mediterranean. Also, it is one of the most extensive settlements of the island as well as one of the first places that have been excavated and studied. Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans left their influence until the arrival of the Christianity. A fragmented tablet is the only testimony of those times and written in it only a single word as a toponym "Egnatuleia". After several attempts, in 902, Mallorca was submitted under Arab dominion and followed by a stage of growth and prosperity.It is considered, that Llucmajor existed as an Arab farmhouse, depending on the municipality of Montuïri. Later, in 1229, the island of Mallorca was conquered by the king Jaume I. We have to emphasize, that the most important milestone of our history has been the Battle of Llucmajor "Sa Batalla de Llucmajor", that took place on the 25th October 1349. In this combat, Jaume III, the last king of Mallorca, was defeated and he lost his kingdom, thus being annexed to the Kingdom of Aragón. In 1543 the emperor Carlos V granted to Llucmajor the real privilege to celebrate fairs from the 29th September to the 18th October, as well as a weekly market, which takes place still nowadays on Wednesday and on Friday.During the centuries XIVth to XVIIIth the South coast of Mallorca suffered the continuous threat of pirates and corsairs expeditions which attacked the Mallorcan coasts without breath. The towers of S'Estelella, Cap Blanc, Cap Enderrocat and Cala Pi are witnesses of those fights. The convent of San Bonaventura was built in the XVIIth century and was the penultimate one founded by the Franciscans on the island. The parish church of Sant Miquel, which construction began in 1781, was erected by the architect Isidro González Velázquez. Llucmajor was always a very important place thanks to the agriculture and livestock and also one of the more outstanding industrial poles of Mallorca in the shoe industry, today replaced by the tourism, sausages and liquors industry, in addition to outstanding crafts of stone, iron and wood.By a Real Decree of 3rd October 1916, the king Alfonso XIII granted Llucmajor the title of "ciutat", city.In October 1916, was constructed the new municipal market, and was also inaugurated the Palma-Santanyí railroad with station in Llucmajor and on 25th November of that year was founded the first electrical power station "El Porvenir", that opened the possibility to the electrical public lighting system. The first decades of the XXth century in Llucmajor, are marked by a series of chained events that marked to a stage of progress and development. There is a fort demographic increase that corresponds with a stage of economic expansion. Many great properties have been divided into plots and sold piece to piece, where a lot of almond trees have been seeded. The strong industrialization, specially in the branch of the footwear, that nowadays has disappeared practically, being today the services industry the most outstanding.

Culture & Tourism Through our cultural patrimony we wish to approach you to our culture, history, and the traditions, from the talayotic times (Settlement of Capocorb Vell) to the present time. In the city of Llucmajor you will enjoy an urban itinerary to visit churches, satately houses of different architectonic styles, the typical wind mills as well as monuments related directly with the history and the customs of our city. In our city, you can admire several façades that belong to buildings with character and have been constructed at the beginning of the XXth century in the architectonic style of the moment. Among them we emphasized: "Ca Ses Xilenes", "Café Colón", "Hotel Espanya", "Bar Tabú", "La Caixa".