Mallorca

"Mallorca’s inhabitants are, by general rule, handsome and fine-looking. Men tend to be thin and of medium height but well-formed and robust. Their face is angular, with well-defined traits though somewhat broad. In general, their hair is dark brown in color, their eyes black or dark grey. Their nose is medium in length and straight, and the shape of the corners of their lips seem to us very pronounced. Worth noting is the fire in the eyes of the young which becomes noble and tempered with age.

   

Women are thin and small, though even the young tend to have a belly sticking out, making them appear to be pregnant.

They brush their generally dark hair back, making their forehead look like a peak. Blonde hair is rare, while red is exceptional. Their eyebrows seem well-traced, and their mouths, though somewhat large, tend to be well drawn. However, there are big differences between women from one or another town. There are women with black curls, irradiating the fragility and ethereal charms of Spanish beauties. Others, by contrast, especially in the plain stretching out from Alcúdia Bay, seem much more like French women, with their broad face and salient cheekbones upon which large brown eyes stand out shaded by the dark of their eyebrows."

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria. Las Baleares por la palabra y el grabado. Majorca: General Part. Ed. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares. Palma de Mallorca. 1982.