How it started
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1988
A bakery on the square
Pep Navarro opens a village bakery on the plaça de s'Aigua in Artà. That is where the name comes from: the bakery on the square. Bread, ensaimadas, and whatever a village asks for each morning.
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The 2000s
Frozen bread nearly finished it
Part-baked frozen bread reaches everywhere, at a price a village bakery cannot match. The business came close to closing.
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Around 2013
Emilio starts on the biscuits
The son and grandson of bakers, Emilio decides the way out is not to compete on bread but to make something nobody else was making: a 100 % natural oil biscuit, no preservatives, no colourings, olive oil, vegan. The ARTÀsanes are born.
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Today
Five partners, sixteen people
The company belongs to the family in equal shares: the parents and the three children. Sixteen people work in the bakery, in sales and in administration. The house gató won the Mallorca Artisan Food Award in 2021.





















