Mallorca · 1936 and after

Exile & return

In July 1936 the Spanish Civil War broke out and Mallorca fell almost at once to Franco's Nationalists. The colony shattered along its fault lines: foreigners and Republicans fled or were stranded abroad, while the apolitical and the local stayed on under the new regime. Some came back when the worst had passed; some never did. Tap any life to read what the rupture meant for it.