Eduardo Gamero: «The Alternative to Tourism in Mallorca Is Misery»

From Gran Hotel to the headquarters of Fomento de Turismo de Mallorca there are five minutes walking, says Google Maps. For a century, however, it unites them more than a few steps. The first hotel in Palma - today emblematic building of the Fundación la Caixa- was inaugurated in 1903 to offer a good accommodation to illustrious visitors. That favored that two years later the blind raised the first private tourist patron saint of Spain, who woul…