Alaró

The town of Alaró is situated in the southern spur of the Mallorcan mountain range, called Serra de Tramuntana. An apparently calm landscape that nevertheless, is the result of a violent structure of tones of compressed rock layers. The towns standing at the foot of this mountain range, build up the county called Es Raiguer.

Some controversy exists regarding to the origin of the name of Alaró, in past times called Hisn al'-rúm, as different authors don't seem to reach an agreement. On one hand, the etymological research of the word leads linguists Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll to the toponym of llurone – according to them, a word original from French- that after a latinization process evolved to the term Oloron and finally, changed to the present Alaró.