Ibiza for tourists, 1959. Archive film 93694
Ibiza in 1959. A wide gravel street, bordered by glaring white houses with flowers outside the windows on Ibiza, a man walks a bicycle along the road. Tourist family walk along the street looking around, the father points up at something beside them. The steep tile roof of a church and its steeple. The family walk up a hill in Ibiza town, behind them the wide road with apartments lining it. An elaborate building front up on a hill. The little girl is handed a pair of yellow plastic sunglasses by her father, she puts them on. Two tiny windows under a large white arch. Rapidly, the wind indicator of a windmill. A windmill turning rapidly. Close up of a windmill turning. Another wind direction indicator. Another windmill turns. Another close up of one turning. Another feathered wind indicator. A windmill turned upside down. The windmill turns, the wind director, the windmill turning. A close up of the windmill. The windmill turns in a field.
A very white church, with a bell over the entrance. A small archway leads into the courtyard of a building, very Moorish architecture. . A matronly woman walks down a dirt road beside a white wall, she passes a small tree. The woman walks in front of the large white church or mosque. A group of people ride bikes along a path beside the church. A locomotive pulls a train along a flat area of track beside the beach. People walk atop a mountain of salt. Men work on top of the mountain of salt made by sea water evaporating in the sun.
The family walks along a road in front of several stores, one selling sun hats. All wear sandals and socks. A metal bell attached to a wall, a hand rises up and rings it. The family looks at some souvenirs. The mother lifts up a hat off a table and moves it aside to pick up a red straw hat which she places on her daughter's head, she does the ribbon up to secure it there. The mother places a blue and white straw hat on her own head and makes a bow. The father puts a hat on his own head and brushes his moustaches out, he laughs. His wife points to him and laughs as well. The tall buildings bordering the wide trees of Ibiza Town. The family walk up white stone steps. The view from their hotel room, looking out over the bay of Ibiza Town. The father lifts his daughter up to sit on the wide balcony railing, the family looks out from the balcony. The scattered hillsides surrounding Ibiza Town, then the wide blue harbour, over the white roofs of the houses and then the open sea. The branches of a prickly cactus, through which is seen the white homes and buildings of Ibiza.
The white sand beach of San Antonio, behind the town lies in the sun. A café by the beach, a man with a cane and another man walk past it under a palm tree. A covered café by the beach. A waiter enters the café carrying a pitcher of lemonade, he puts two glasses on the table and pours out the lemonade. A lemonade mix drink pours into a glass full of ice.