Jonquet mills are a forgotten eyesore

THE image of the Jonquet mills overlooking the Paseo Marítimo epitomises one of the most run down areas of Palma, according to the Save Majorca movement. They are the ruins of the flour mills which provided the old city with the material to make its daily bread. Today the mills show how time has forgotten them. For years many people have been demanding a rehabilitation plan for Jonquet, the central axis of which would be the restoration of the mills, which are prominent in this district of Palma. The elections are coming and it is a time for promises. Citizens are hearing promises of a great amount of work to be done, all of it laden with pragmatism and justified by funcionality, but it seems there is no room for the Jonquet mills, or for beauty, a spokesman for the movement said.