Smuggling in Mallorca
Smuggling in Mallorca became a major clandestine activity during the difficult post-war years of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Tobacco, coffee, sugar, medicine and other scarce goods arrived by boat from Gibraltar and North Africa, often being unloaded under cover of darkness along the island’s coast. Discover the fascinating history of Mallorca’s smugglers, how these secret networks operated and why the local expression “anar de tabac” became synonymous with the tobacco trade that shaped a remarkable chapter in Mallorca’s history.