Esporles


Esporlas is a locality and spanish municipality of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands.
Situated on the island of Majorca, around the zone of the Serra de Tramuntana.
It's about 15 km from Palma de Mallorca. The town is divided in Vilavella and Vilanova. In its territory it also includes small urbanizations, like Ses Rotgetes de Canet y Es Verger.
Its economy was traditionally based in agriculture and animal husbandry, which is shown in its mansion farm-museum La Granja. Tourism, like in most of the Balearic Islands is now the bases of its economy. The textile industry was also very important in its economy, but in present day there only remain traces of the factories or buildings, which some to this day remain empty but most of these have been transformed in to housing and one the biggest factories was transformed in to the local library Sa Fabrica.

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Constitutional mayors (present-1979)

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