A group of specialists in Ibiza studies the maternal language of Columbus

The Insular Consell organizes this symposium, that will be take place on days 10, 11 and 12 of April in the auditorium of Ibiza and Formentera of the Universidad de Las Islas Baleares. Nito Verdera maintains that the statue of the discoverer of America in Barcelona points towards Ibiza.

The journalist and investigator Nito Verdera will defend the catalanidad of the lexicon nautical and toponímico that Cristóbal Columbus used in his writings in the last day of the Symposium the International Ibiza 2006, in which will study, analyze and discuss the maternal language of the discoverer of America. The encounter, that will be attended by diverse specialists on this subject, has been organized by conselleria insular of Culture and it will be carried out today, tomorrow and Wednesday in the seat of Ibiza of the Universitat of them Illes Balears (UIB), from 4:30 of afternoon. Centre d´Estudis Colombins of Barcelona, Amics de Cristóbal Columbus de Ibiza y Formentera, the Hotel Federació of Ibiza and Formentera, the Abel Foundation and the City council of Sant Antoni organizes the event. "the studies that have been carried out on the maternal language of Columbus have always been done in a very superficial way, and to me it is very important to consider", assures Verdera, defender of the birth of the admiral in some place of geography of Ibiza or Formentera for more than twenty years. "a specialist who knows the Catalan language and who has read and studied his texts have discovered some Catalanisms in writings of Columbus", maintain the investigator, author of several books on the subject. "I have made investigative journalism with this subject because I have spoken with doctors and philogists, and have visited cartographic institutes to base my thesis", Nito Verdera argues, that the great aid that has received from the philogists Marià Torres. The journalist also emphasizes the great contribution which they have supposed in the last years, the works of the historian Consolation Varela and Juan Gil, university professor of Philology of the University of Seville, that has transcribed to the present Spanish all texts of Columbus. Cesar Hernandez Alonso, Josep Garrido and Valls, Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza, Luciano Formisano, Ernest Vallhonrat i Llurba, Lluís de Yzaguirre i Maura, Pere Català i Roca and Estelle Irizarry, paleógrafos, historians and filólogos will offer the different communications from the symposium and will take part in the round tables, that will moderate investigator Pere Vilàs Gil, the architect and ex- mayor of Ibiza town Joan Prats Bonet and the poet and philogist Vicente Valero. "the round tables can generate controversy because between the conclusions they arrive at during this encounter, and the results of the investigation of the DNA of Columbus, which they will know this year, we can approach the truth of Columbus", considers Nito Verdera, for whom the admiral was bilingual and who finishes discovering that the finger of the statue of Columbus in the beginning of the Boulevards of Barcelona, points to Ibiza and not to America, as it was thought.

74% of the young people of Ibiza use Internet

74% of the young people of Ibiza and the rest of Balears (more than 36,000) of between 10 and 14 years surf the Internet, as it supposes one of the highest percentage of Spain behind Catalunia, where the level is of the 83 percent. this is what indicates a ` Survey it of technologies of the information in homes´ of the INE. This report also reveals that almost half of the young people (more than 24,000) has mobile telephone.

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"A brutal" demand of moorings in Ibiza and "little" supply

In the official notice made public by the Association of Neighbors of Es Viver it affirms that the present demand of moorings in Ibiza "is brutal and the very little supply". For this reason, the ocal group insists in the kindness to construct a sport port in the coast of Es Viver, and as it gathers the Insular Territorial Plan. In order to support his proposal, official notice emphasizes in that information received on ports of Sant Antoni and Santa Eulalia indicate that "no beach near these facilities has had porblemas of spills of procendentes oil or gasohol of the port" and add,"the beach of Santa Eulalia has obtained in the last years the blue flag that grants the Union European, among other things, by the quality of its water".

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Ibiza : Santa Eulalia will apply a decree to improve the beaches

The City council will contract this season a watchman who watches the fulfillment of the maintenance norms and cleaning of the municipal coast. The concessions for this summer already have been approved The City council of Santa Eulalia in Ibiza, the contract this summer for a watchman who will be in charge to watch the fulfillment of the decree that regulates the maintenance and cleaning of beaches of the municipality. The first lieutenant of mayor of the locality, Vicent Riera Noguera, is outstanding we must set as a objective "protect the public health and the environmental surroundings" of the coast, as well as "to improve the image of the coast of Santa Eulalia" in Ibiza. The last week, the Consistorio approved the concessions of operation of beaches for this season. The awardees will have to fulfill the conditions that the decree indicates on aesthetic, cleaning and maintenance of beaches. "the presence of a watchman will help to fulfill this norm, the final mission is to guarantee a good maintenance of the surroundings of the municipal coast", emphasized Riera Noguera. The decree, that was approved last season, regulates aspects of the publicity through posters or fences, the signaling of the spaces used for the hammocks, tumbonas or another type of similar element or the marking of buoys of the zones of baths. plus, it is indicated that the holder of the concession will be forced to maintain in good state the facilities, having the corresponding sanitary certificates. The City council will also demand that the tipología of the elements that settle in beaches is harmonious with the surroundings, materials of "good quality and good state of conservation". The decree establishes that the Maximum surface that a beach shop can occupy will be of 20 meters and indicates, that the holders of the playeros services also are forced to avoid the sweepings accumulation and to facilitate the daily cleaning of the sand.

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