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The history of the Trapa begins in 1810, when a community of trapenses monks settles in the property fleeing from France because of the Revolution of 1789. First they were in Zaragoza and other sites of the peninsula, but despues of the napoleonica invasion (that affection to the Balearic ones) did not come to Majorca. Canonigo Pere Roig is going to make its available the property that tapeworm in the valley of Sant Josep de Sa Palomera de S'arracò. The community of trapenses was formed by 8 chaplains and 32 clerigos, the abbot was called Simeò Carracedo. Pertenecian to a branch of the benedictine ones that in year 1664 made a reform in the monastery which the strict norms tenian in Normandia recovering but, poverty vote and abstention, vote of silence (they communicated by gestures among them) single podian to speak with the Abbot in case of extreme necessity. They were strict vegetarians, they dormian on a surface lasts and only they were dedicated to the oration and the work of the Earth. Indeed it is the hardness of its norms those that are going to allow to confront the hardness of the land. They constructed marges and systems of water pick up that is going to allow to cultivate cereals, vegetables, vegetables and fruits.

After of the monks

In a 1813 part of the community leaves Majorca and the rest goes away definitively in the 1820. By notarial disposition, they donate half to the monks of the Mercy and other half to those of the Mercy. This aministracion was disastrous and the 17 of March of 1853 were sold in publishes auction by 12,755 pesetas to Don Segismundo Morey, despues passage at hands of Don Gabriel Ros of the Calatrava