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Sitting high above the village of S'Horta, near to Cala D'or
is the "Castillo de Santueri" and around the beginning of the
13th century it was held by the Moors. As King Jaume tried to drive the Moors from Mallorca, the castle was found impossible to conquer. |
| So one night the villagers held a dance below
the castle, on hearing the music, the moors of the castle looked
over the walls and watched the fiesta, as they watched they were
attacked from the other side of the castle, the Moors were
defeated and killed, their heads cut of and put in large pot
jars which were thrown down the cliffs from the castle wall to
the valley below. Some of the Moors escaped to a cave and a siege was set, but the Moors held up fresh fish every day to show they would not die of hunger. There was a tunnel in the cave leading to the sea and nobody knew of this. Only the Moors. |
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