Majorca - La Granja

Beyond Bañalbufar, C 710 turns inland and in a few kilometers comes to a junction where a road goes off on the right to Esporlas (Majorcan Esporles). 1km/0.75mi along this road is the old country house of La Granja (the "Grange"). There was a house here in Moorish times which was later occupied by Cistercian monks. The present owners have left it largely unrestored, so that it conveys an impression of unspoiled authenticity, with its sheds for farming equipment, living rooms, kitchen, bakery, domestic chapel, storerooms and various workshops, still containing their implements and equipment, and walls faced with majolica tiles. Behind the house is a romantic garden with glorieta and grotto that cooled by fountain springs.