Finca Gallicant from the lawn: a long single-storey stone farmhouse with a tiled roof, a tiled pergola and an arched green door, almond trees behind under a clear blue sky

A working finca · Es Llombards, Santanyí

Old stone, olive trees, a pool, and the quiet you came for.

Finca Gallicant is a real stone house in the calm south-east of Mallorca, near Santanyí — kept, year after year, by the family who live in it. A few rooms, shaded terraces, a long pool under the olives.

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The house

A farmhouse first, and still kept like one.

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
  • iiiA long pool, almond and olive trees, a garden tended by hand
  • ivThe south-east, near Santanyí, the calm corner of the island
The finca seen across its garden: a circular lawn and raked-earth paths, the stone house and its pergola beyond, olive trees all around
The house on its own land — a circle of lawn, raked paths, olive trees to every side.
The pool on the lawn, a row of orange sun-loungers and a parasol on the terracotta deck, a deep belt of olive trees behind under a blue sky

Pool & garden

A long pool, cut into the lawn, olives all around it.

The pool sits out on the grass with the old olive grove behind it. A row of loungers on the warm deck, a stone pool-house at the far end, and the kind of quiet where you hear the cicadas before you hear anything else.

The long pool with its built-in plunge step, terracotta surround and a small stone pool-house behind, framed by pines
The pool with its plunge step and the little stone pool-house behind.
An ornamental cast urn on a plinth at the pool's edge, the loungers and lawn soft behind it
Old cast urns at the water's edge — the place has been loved a long time.

The rooms

A few rooms and a lot of shade to sit in.

Because it's a real house, no two rooms match — and the best of it is outside the rooms anyway. Deep covered terraces on every side, a long table in the shade, somewhere cool to sit at every hour of the day.

The covered stone terrace: two long wrought-iron sofas with cushions and a glass table, a woven pendant lamp, olive trees beyond

The shaded terrace

Two long iron sofas under the stone wall and the old roof beams, out of the sun all afternoon. The spot everyone ends up in.

Covered · north side

The view out from under the tiled pergola: a wooden rocking chair, oleander in flower, the circular lawn and olive grove beyond

The pergola & garden room

A rocking chair under the tiled pergola, oleander in flower, and the whole garden laid out in front of you. Early morning is the best of it.

Double · garden side

The shaded terrace laid for a meal: a long table and woven chairs against the stone wall, the pool and garden visible past the railing

The family table

A long table on the terrace that overlooks the pool, room for everyone, the quiet end of the house where noise does not carry. Made for slow dinners.

Sleeps the family · quiet end

Whole-house stays are easiest to arrange off-season. Write and ask.

Ask us about layout and capacity — we'll tell you exactly what fits.

A table set in the shade of the olive trees: watermelon, red placemats and a jug of red roses, the pool bright beyond
Watermelon and roses on a red cloth, the pool a few steps away. A slow Mallorcan morning.

The 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.

Near 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.

The house's own hand-painted blue-on-white ceramic tile sign reading ES GALLICANT, set into a weathered stone gatepost
The dry-stone entrance: two rubble-stone gateposts and an iron gate opening onto the red-earth track, an olive tree beside it
You'll know the turning by the hand-painted tiles on the gatepost — Es Gallicant.

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.

Write to the house

pepe.gallego@outlook.es