Mallorca hotels are at the top of the world. They are number one in relaxation, and number one in services and hospitality. The casual or business traveler alike will find a hundred ways to get comfortable here, with an ambience and warmth that no other place can offer. There is a fascinating influx of international celebrities here, vacationing or buying homes. There is also a long and fascinating history about the people born here.
Ramon Llull is one famous local. Born here in 1232, his life and martyrdom in this eighties, are a very curious biography. Educated in the Court, and given to lots of romantic adventures, and a hobby of collecting troubadour songs, he had a very profound mystical experience when he was in his early thirties—though truth be told, he seemed to have been prone to mystical experiences. This particular experience, however, lead him to move in a completely new direction.
For the rest of his years, which were considerable, Ramon Llull spent in attempts to convert non-Christians, and attempting to prove his great Ars Magna. The Ars Magna was a machine that he had constructed which would prove the faith and reason are the same, or rather, never incompatible. His proof, with the machine, was something that seemed to make him rather fanatical, and he did devote all of his time to attempts to convert, and writing about the meaning of his machine. He was either stoned in Mallorca, or on his way back here, in a final mission. After his death, the Church officially condemned his teachings, on the grounds that faith and reason should remain separate as philosophical systems, although he did have admirers who started chairs in his philosophy at universities, and his work is said to have had a great influence on the mathematician philosopher Leibniz.
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