Fornalutx Town
All Fornalutx constitutes an architectonic and landscaping set of great value, in very good state of conservation. The paved with stones entrances, the austerity and the simplicity of the constructions and their ornamentation, make of the houses of Fornalutx a clear exponent of the typical Majorcan mountain houses, reflection of a form of life of other times. Ligature to agriculture where the kitchen garden, the culture of naranjo and the olive tree, was the motor of the economy until the Sixties. Here artists and personages of other places of Europe have arrived, fascinated by the beauty of the landscape and the form of simple life of their inhabitants. Some of them have established their definitive residence in Fornalutx. Nothing else to enter Fornalutx we found the House of Villa, with a defense tower that dates from century XVII. The parochial church is another one of the outstanding buildings of Fornalutx, original of century XIII of gothic style, has undergone numerous reforms until arriving at its own present aspect from the baroque one, with a single ship, covered by a vault of average tube and chapels lateral. The popular art of the roofing tiles guinea fowl is very present in the houses of Fornalutx.
One is compositions of drawings realised between centuries XIV and XIX, normally of red color, on a white bottom under the roofing tiles that leave in the cornice of the facades. They represent geometric and vegetal reasons, elements of the daily life, anthropomorphic and zoomrficas figures, religious subjects, inscriptions and until proverbs. A technique without perspective was used, limiting the drawings the contour of the objects with some inner details. To part of the properly decorative function, they had a symbolic function, since its objective era to preserve and to defend the house and its inhabitants of the misfortunes. For the fans to the senderismo there are several routes of interest, like the one of Sller to Fornalutx by the Viewpoint of Ses Barques, or the one of the Cam de Sa Figuera, that unites Fornalutx and the Port de Sller. History of Fornalutx the origins of Fornalutx or ” Fornalugi” , as it is written in old documents, one begins before from the same moment of the conquest, being one farmhouse dwells. Its denomination derives from fornal” or ferreira” , with the suffix utx” , Mozarabic place-name of the suffix Romanesque ucem”. The history of Fornalutx always has been ligature to the one of Sller, town with which formed a unique municipality until year 1837. Fornalutx, can be considered like a set of unquestionable landscaping and architectonic interest, as well as its surroundings. In 1983 it was awarded with ” Plate of Silver by Fomento de Turismo of Majorca by the Defense and Maintenance of the Villa” and from the General Secretariat of Tourism it obtained that one same year ” II National Prize of Towns Embellished and Maintained of Espaa” , the 1995 were spent ” to him; Encina” prize; by its work in favor of the Nature.
