Why do Germans love Spain?

It's warmer, it offers a cheaper cost of living and has delicious (and healthy) food. Spain and Germany have an unbreakable love story, with Germans holidaying and retiring on the sunny country for decades. However, nowadays, employment is the major reason for moving abroad from Germany.



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For long decades, Mallorca is so popular among Germans and Brits because of its long and sandy beaches, awesome Mediterranean climate, and ideal costs for both living and holiday. There are many more numerous reasons for this choice of Brits and Germans.

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Not all Germans who came to the island were travellers that spent only the summer season, some of them established there as their place of residence. In fact, after the Nazi party took the power, thousands of Germans emigrated to Majorca, as they felt safe in the democratic Spain of the second Republic.

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In Germany Mallorca has the nice nickname 'Putzfraueninsel' “Cleaning Lady Island”. The reason was that Mallorca started as an affordable destination for less affluent Germans. So cheap in fact that even a cleaning lady could fly there during her vacation.

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The Balearic Islands are one of the autonomous communities in Spain which welcomes the most foreigners, either to spend a few days vacation, or to settle permanently. On the island of Mallorca, if there is one group that has always led the foreign communities with regards to ex-pat living, it is the British community.

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Germans Moving To Spain: Immigration Statistics Most of them reside mainly in the Balearic Islands, Cataluña (Barcelona), Canarias (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Comunitat Valenciana (Alicante).

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As a percentage of the foreign population, the British were fourth in Alcudia, says Foro Ciudad/INE - 5.7%, behind Colombians 16.1%, Argentines 11.2% and Moroccans 9.7%. For Pollensa, the British percentage (the highest) was 16.5%, with Argentines second on 11.4% and Romanians on 9.4%.

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The major share is still the Germans with more than 3.4 million equating to 40% of the total. There are around 340,000 Scandinavians, 238,000 French, 160,000 Swiss, and 136,000 Irish and although small at present the number of Russian visitors to Mallorca is growing steadily.

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It's much easier for an English speaker to learn the Romance languages or other Germanic languages such as Afrikaans, Danish, or Dutch than to study German. However, according to the FSI (Foreign Service Institute) of the US government which ranks languages in terms of difficulty, German is a tier II language.

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