The statue of ‘S’Espigolera’, made in bronze in 1965 by the sculptor Horacio de Eguía, is a tribute to Maria Antonia Salvá, the city’s poetess.
Maria Antònia Salvà: Palma, 1869 – Llucmajor, 1958
Poetess, translator and prose writer
From a family of rural landowners and lawyers, related to the Mallorcan Renaixença, she soon became acquainted with its poets, as well as with the island’s rich oral tradition and the poems of Verdaguer and Mistral, her first cultured literary models.
He became known at the end of the 19th century with the encouragement of Costa y Llobera, a poet friend of the family, with whom he made a trip around the Mediterranean in 1907.
She triumphed in the Floral Games of Palma in 1903 and 1904, with compositions on nature that linked her to Joan Alcover and the so-called Mallorcan School and which, at the same time, made her the initiator of a modern poetic tradition written by women.
She was a regular contributor to Mallorcan and Mallorcan weekly magazines and journals and maintained close friendships with numerous writers and intellectuals.
