The beam room
Under the old roof timbers, thick walls, a window deep enough to sit in. Cool in the heat, dark when you want to sleep.
Es Llombards · Santanyí south-east Mallorca
A small house, kept by hand.
Finca Gallicant is a small rural house in the quiet south-east of Mallorca, near Santanyí. Stone walls, almond trees, and a few rooms, kept year after year by the family who live here.
01The house
Old stone, a green door, and nobody in a hurry.
Gallicant is the kind of Mallorcan finca that was a working farm long before it was anything else. Thick stone walls that keep the rooms cool through July, a roof of old clay tiles, shutters painted the green you see on every farmhouse out here.
It's small on purpose. No front desk, no lobby. The people who keep the house are the people who live in it, and they look after it the way you look after something you mean to pass on. When you arrive, someone meets you, hands you the key, and tells you where the good bread is.
- iAn old stone farmhouse, kept by the family who live here
- iiA handful of rooms — small by design, quiet by nature
- iiiAlmond and carob trees, dry-stone walls, a garden tended by hand
- ivThe south-east, near Santanyí, the calm corner of the island
02Near Santanyí
The quiet corner, where the coast still feels like a secret.
The south-east is the part of Mallorca that has kept its calm. Santanyí is a few minutes up the road — a honey-stone town with a Saturday market, good coffee, and a couple of galleries. Past it, the coast: small clear coves, pine to the water's edge, a salt-pan light you only get down here.
- Santanyí town & market 10 min
- Cala Llombards, Es Pontàs 12 min
- Cala Mondragó & the park 15 min
- Palma & the airport 50 min
You need a car out here — and you will be glad of it. The good days are the slow ones: a cove in the morning, the market for lunch, the terrace by the time it cools.
03The rooms
A few rooms, each one different, none of them a hotel room.
Because it's a real house, no two rooms match. Some have the old beams, some open onto the garden, all of them are cool, plain and properly looked after. Tell us who's coming and we'll put you in the one that fits.
The garden room
Its own door straight onto the garden, a chair outside it for the early morning before anyone else is up. Almond trees for a view.
The family room
The bigger one, room for the children, a little corner to put a cot or a folding bed. The end of the house where noise does not carry.
Whole-house stays are easiest to arrange off-season. Write and ask.
04The table
Breakfast is whatever the garden and the market gave us.
Mornings are slow on purpose. Bread from the village, fruit off the trees, eggs, good coffee, sometimes flowers cut from the garden and put on the table because someone felt like it.
There is a kitchen you are welcome to use, a long table outside under the shade, and no clock telling you when to be anywhere. In the evening, when the heat finally lets go, the terrace is the best seat on the island.
Sit down. Stay a while. That's rather the point.
Book direct
Write to us. A real person writes back.
Tell us your dates and how many of you there are, and we will tell you honestly what is free and which room suits you. No agency in the middle, no booking fee — just the family, in English or Spanish.