The country rooms
Doubles in the old house, behind thick marès walls. Cool through the heat of the day, with shuttered windows that open onto the fields and the kind of dark, complete quiet you only get this far in.
A rural hotel in the Mallorcan countryside
The long look, all the way out.
A quiet country house above the plain, built around one thing — the terrace at the end of the day, where the land runs uninterrupted to a far line of coast.
01The house
An old marès farmhouse, kept calm and kept simple.
Son Terrassa is a rural hotel in the cultivated centre of Mallorca — a working country house of honey-coloured marès stone, with iron-studded doors, a courtyard, and rooms behind thick cool walls.
It is not a resort. It is the kind of place the island was made of: a handful of rooms, a kitchen that cooks what is grown around it, and a terrace that everything else is arranged around. People come for the quiet, and stay for the view.
- Built of
- Honey-coloured marès, the island's own stone
- The rooms
- A few quiet rooms behind thick, cool walls
- The kitchen
- A restaurant that cooks what the land gives
- What it is for
- The terrace, and the long view off it
02The terrace
From the table, the land just keeps going.
This is the whole idea of the place. The terrace sits high enough over the plain that nothing interrupts the eye — vineyards, almond groves and dry fields run flat to the horizon, and on a clear evening the far edge of it turns to a thin blue line of coast.
Dinner is laid out here as the light drops. The heat comes off the stone, the bougainvillea goes dark over the pergola, and the distance does the rest. It is a long, slow look, and it is the reason to come.
03Rooms
A handful of rooms, kept plain on purpose.
The rooms are quiet and cool, made of the same stone as the house. They are not the show here — the terrace is — so they are kept simple: white linen, dark wood, a window onto the country, and walls thick enough that you hear nothing but the morning.
The terrace side
The rooms that share the long view — closest to the terrace, so the plain is the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing at night. Plain white walls, dark wood, the country doing the decorating.
The table
Half-board if you want it. The kitchen cooks what is grown and reared nearby and lays it out on the terrace as the light goes — a long Mallorcan dinner, eaten outside, with the whole plain in front of you.
Rooms and dates are handled directly by the house. Tell them when you would like to come and how many of you there are, and they will confirm what is free. Check dates
04A few frames
The terrace, the stone, and the hour it all turns gold.
A small set, honestly — the place is best seen at the end of the day, and that is the moment worth keeping.
A proper set of photographs — and a short film of the terrace at sunset — would carry this place far better than words can. That is the one thing we would add.
05The setting
In the middle of the island, looking out to the edge of it.
Son Terrassa sits in the farmed heart of Mallorca, up where the land opens out. Around it: vineyards, almond and olive groves, dry-stone walls, and a few small towns that do not see much of the coast crowds.
And because it sits high and central, the rest is in reach — the old market towns, a course or two for the golfers, and the coast itself, which you watch from the terrace and can be standing on within the half-hour.
- The vineyards below
- At your feet
- Across the plain
- For miles
- The far coast
- ~30 km out
- And by road
- Palma ~35 min
How far the view runs
Stay
Come for the view, stay for the quiet.
The house takes its own bookings — no agent, no commission between you and the people who keep the place. Send your dates and how many of you there are, and they will tell you what is free.
tguiscafre@bitgrup.com
Hotel Rural Son Terrassa · Mallorca