Culture
Many artists and celebrities chose Port de Pollença as their home, or made short trips there during their life. Famous painters such as the Argentinian Atilio Boveri or Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa lived in Port de Pollença and popularized the place.
Concerning famous writers, Ruben Darío visited the place in the early 1900s, and wrote a number of poems while on the island. Recently, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa stayed at the Hotel Formentor.
The most famous example of an international writer is perhaps that of Agatha Christie. In the early 20th century, she visited the town and stayed at a hotel in the Pine Walk area, which she describes in her book Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories:
... a small hotel standing on the edge of the sea looking out over a view that in the misty haze of a fine morning had the exquisite vagueness of a Japanese print.
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