Petra

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The name Petra itself illustrates the particularities of the village. The Roman settlers symbolized with a stone the main essence of this place and still today, after almost twenty centuries, the same image serves to define the physical and human landscape of the town. Petra brings together all the basic and common ingredients of the villages of the Pla: a plain of fertile land interrupted by small elevations. In the case of Petra, the Puig de Bonany is the counterpoint that breaks the horizontality of the area and the places from where you can admire a good part of Mallorca, the Plan, the Tramontana mountain range and the Bay of Alcúdia. This exceptional viewpoint has always been the historical-social and religious reference of the Petrers, the point around which the life of the people has revolved so that in the Puig was found the Mother who has protected the crops and the health of the population. Petra is a rural village of great agricultural and livestock activity until the very recent past, which is testified by the mills that still exist, by the possessions such as Son Mieres, Son Santandreu, Los Cabanells Viejos and Ses Cabanasses and for the craftsmen's trades dedicated to the manufacture and maintenance of traditional agricultural machinery. The other main activity of the village has been the extraction of sandstone and construction material. It is also an important endavament of communication routes with other towns of the Plan and the east of the island, and this has facilitated the socioeconomic relations with these regions.