Sineu Public Services

 

Majorca Details

 

Health and Social Services: for the elderly people, there is a private residence, but all parties of the council of Sineu agree there is a need for a public residence or a day center. The association of the third age of Sineu disposes over a new location to gather and to organize their own events, from the beginning of this legislature. Moreover, Sineu didposes over a health center with an emergency department, which serves the local population and villages in the vicinity.

Culture: The old Cloister of San Francisco is being restored. This cloister was occupied for many years as office of the Guardia Civil; the former Council gave it a new destination as the future location of the Caseron Cultural of the village. Currently the continuation of its restoration is desirable, although its future use remains unclear. The cloister also includes the Municipal Library of Sineu, the Municipal Archives, which will be digitalized during the current legislature, and the University Center for the youngsters of the village.

During the former legislature the council created the Municipal Band and the Music School of Sineu. The municipality also has a band of horns, drums and trumpets, two groups of Ball Bot (Balearic dance), a theater group "La Prima", and various cultural organizations, in which the civilians participate.

During the years 1985-1988 there existed a local magazine of general information ,called "Baula", which was edited quarterly.

Services: Sineu is one of the villages of Majorca with the highest number of restaurants and bars in comparison to the population of the municipality. In 2004, Sineu had 37 catering establishments. Currently (2008) there are five hotels in the centre of two, three and four stars.

Construction: Sineu has, like the rest of the island, experienced the urban boom of the past decade. According to the Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands, in 1996 only 5 building licenses were issued,while in 2004 the college issued 51 building licenses.

Almost half of the labour contracts and jobs are part of the service sector. According to datas of the Social Security , in 2004, 6% of the inhabitants of Sineu were active in the agricultural sector, 22% in the construction sector, a 27% in the industial sector and a 45% in service sectors.

Education: Currently the village has a kindergarten, a School of Primary Education ( "Sa Graduada") and an Institute for Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. In recent years the population growth, due to the arrival of immigrants, has stimulated the expansion of these infrastructures. The current municipal government has approved the expansion of the kindergarten, there are plans to build a new primary school and at the moment the new wing of the IES Sineu is inaugurated.

 

 

Local Economy

Sineu, as the other villages of the Pla de Mallorca, has always had an economy based on agriculture. In fact, the weekly market on Wednesdays and the annual fair show the historical importance of the land in the economy of Sineu.

The village's economy has also been marked by a noteworthy industrial activity (“menestrals "), especially in recent decades.Nowadays Sineu counts with steel, wood, aluminum ... companies.

During many years in the twentieth century, there was a cinema, which was converted into a disco at the end of the century, before it was destroyed by fire. The village also has a Teleclub, in the former locals of the third age.

Transport: Sineu has a railway connection with the railway line Palma-Manacor of the Servicios Ferrovarios de Mallorca (SFM). The railway station of Sineu was inaugurated on the 17^th of February 1878.This contributed to the development of commerce in a village, that so far, had been mainly agricultural. In the year 1975, due to institutional and political reasons, the rail line Palma-Manacor was eliminated at the point of the railway station of Inca. In 2002, the government of the Balearic Islands, presided by the socialist Antich, reopened the line.

The village also has a bus stop on the line Palma-Santa Margalida -Ca'n Picafort.