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I'm from Mallorca, a little Mediterranean island near Barcelona, and we have a great dry stone walls tradition there.

The people that do it are called margers in the local language. They never really disappeared, and they finally formed a guild a couple of years ago.

Here are some pictures if anyone is interested:

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&biw=1745&bih=906&t...

https://www.google.com/search?q=margers+mallorca&newwindow=1...

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I lived in Palma de Mallorca for 6 months. An enchanting place - my wife and I dream of moving back to the island someday and making a home in one of the small, old and hauntingly beautiful towns like Alcudia or Soller.

A 20 minute drive from Alcudia (which I visited today!) is Pollença, another beautiful town (not the nearby Port de Pollença, mind). It also doesn't get nearly as many tourists as Alcudia - if you get back to Mallorca, you should definitely have a visit!

I actually have family in Alcudia. :)

Another town you should check is Buynola. It has all the magic of the Tramuntana and not as expensive as Valldemossa or Deia.

Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.

There are reasonably valuable grants available to maintain existing walls. I think it's on a first come first served basis until the budget is spent (although you can probably jump the queue with a few targeted Euros!?)

Thank you, that was fascinating. It appears in the pictures that the stones are roughly uniform size. Is that natural or are they worked in someway before they are placed in the walls?

I have no idea. I imagine there is some degree of sorting and modification of the stones.

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