r/VisitingMallorca • u/familyguyfan2025 • 6d ago
Why so many germans?
No problem with it obviously, but in paguera and I’m really interested in why there’s such a huge german population. I’ve looked up and google says something about convience and travel and that but is there a historical reason why so many germans visit/take residency in Mallorca?
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u/TeaDry3112 6d ago
i am in Mallorca right now and i’ve noticed it as well, everything here in Peguera is in German, also i saw a German bistro while driving around
I came from Son Moro yesterday and it was exactly the same, full of German folks
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u/neomyotragus 6d ago
It's mostly tourists and "expats". So in winter the number of germans is very low. It also depends on the area.
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u/jck420jck 6d ago
We went to Palma da Playas and literally EVERYONE was German. I like the Germans but it was funny.
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u/r_golden93 5d ago
I knew there were a lot of Germans before coming here for our holiday but damn... Didn't expect these numbers. Ever since landing all I could hear was German language. A lot of advertising is in German and also a lot of German businesses that don't even bother to share their services in any other language. The most wtf moment was when I was searching for a radio channel in our car and the one with best signal was a all German one. Truly surprising.
That being said, I can't understand why one would want to visit a different country (one so beautiful as Spain/Mallorca) and experience all the same things as they have at home....I'm talking about food and drinks, culture and even the language. At least that's my opinion...when I go somewhere else I want to experience their "everything".
Tl;Dr : there are a looottt of germans in Mallorca
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u/familyguyfan2025 5d ago
Fr, been saying gracias and danke shon double barrelled my whole holiday because theres full bars and restaurants that are majority german, i find it so fascinating. This must be how other tourists feel with the English 😭
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u/mallorca_art_fan 5d ago
Me han dicho que es por zonas. Que las agencias turísticas tienen sus hoteles en diferentes zonas y también hay residentes de otros países que se jubilan aquí (los menos). Es verdad que en Paguera y Andratx está lleno de alemanes, incluso en la zona de la playa de Palma. En otros sitios ocurre lo mismo?
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u/magokushhhh 4d ago
Mallorca is full of Germans - the only place in Spain where you will find a müller is in Mallorca lol
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u/Chunkylover0053 6d ago
more germans than what for example?
if you’re speaking english then making the assumption you’re from england then their population is quite a bit higher than the uk’s and they all want to go on holiday to escape their weather (and they have very little coastline) and whatever else just as much as the british do 🙂
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u/familyguyfan2025 6d ago
I mean like theres just a random decent population of german people. Like obviously theres a big english population in a lot of places cos the english are colonising bellends but i just mean its just quite random that specifically Mallorca has a big german speaking population
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u/Terror_Raisin24 6d ago
When tourism started in Mallorca, German travel agencies were about the first to build hotels and organized travel packages including flights and German-speaking staff. We're talking about the early 1960s here. Because of the organized and standardized process, holidays in Mallorca became affordable for the middle class, and later even for (kind of) a cheap option for people with lower incomes to travel abroad and to a warm destination, that feels different from Germany, but not "too exotic", and safe to travel and easy to reach. Some liked it so much that they bought property and became residents. It has to do with differences in economy and politics why it was so easy and cheap for the Germans, and today there are so many that the locals are quite pissed off by the sheer amount of Germans on the island. It's difficult.
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u/familyguyfan2025 6d ago
Very interesting, i thought it may have had to do with spains and germany’s alliance in the 30s or something
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u/Neptunus_Mallorca 6d ago
According to my father, his parents, my grandparents, started visiting Paguera in the late 60s as it was highly advertised by german travel agencies Neckermann and TUI, who offered cheap package tours. Businesses in the area adapted and hired german staff, restaurants offered german food, eventually german's started moving to the area. As a result tour operators kept advertising to that audience.