Official Name: | Ariany |
Other Name: | Ariañy |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Majorca#Spain Balearic Islands#Spain |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the town in Majorca |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Name1: | Balearic Islands |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Balearic Islands |
Subdivision Type3: | Island |
Subdivision Name3: | Majorca |
Subdivision Type4: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name4: | Pla de Mallorca |
Leader Title: | Mayor (2007-) |
Leader Name: | Joan Ribot Mayol |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 23.14 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 39.6494°N 3.1108°W |
Elevation M: | 124 |
Website: | http://www.ajariany.net |
Ariany (pronounced as /ca/) is a small municipality on Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, Spain. It has an area of 22.72 km ² with 839 inhabitants in 2008, 763 of which lived in the main town. In 2006, the foreign population of the municipality was 10.4% (80 people).
Archeological findings show that the surrounding villages were present in prehistoric times. James I of Aragon first referred to the settlement with its current name. From the sixteenth century it was subject to the Cotoner family, owners of the land in Ariany. The current population center was developed around the manor house of the Auberg's, named S'Auberg i El Camí de Sa Marquesa.Other main buildings today include the Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de Atocha (built in 1570) and Ca ses Monges, the convent of Franciscan nuns.