La Balanguera
song composed by Amadeu Vives i Roig; official anthem of the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain
"La Balanguera" (Balearic Catalan: [lə bələŋˈɡeɾə]) is the official anthem of the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain. It is based on a poem by Joan Alcover i Maspons about an ancient Mallorcan children's song. The music is a work by Catalan composer Amadeu Vives, and in November 1996 the Consell Insular de Mallorca made it the anthem for the Island.
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This entry incorporates text from “La Balanguera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.