By the courtyard
The Courtyard Rooms
Ground-floor rooms off the shaded patio, thick-walled and dim at midday. Doors open onto the vine and the well — the cool heart of the house.
Sant Llorenç des Cardassar · the soft east
What the garden keeps.
S'hort de sa Begura — the walled garden of Begura. A quiet finca in the soft east of Mallorca, an orchard and a few rooms kept behind one wall, far from the coast road.
- Setting
- A walled orchard, inland
- Near
- Sant Llorenç · eastern Mallorca
- Kept for
- A few guests at a time
The finca
A house turned inward, around the garden it was built to keep.
Sa Begura is an old working finca in the flat farmland east of Sant Llorenç — the part of Mallorca that the coast crowds never reach. The buildings sit low and pale against the fields, shutters closed against the afternoon, everything arranged so the garden stays at the centre.
It is not a hotel and never tries to be. The land is still tended; the orchard still gives. A handful of rooms are kept around the courtyard for guests who would rather hear the irrigation channel and the doves than a pool bar — people who come to read, to cook what the garden gives, and to do very little, slowly.
- The houseA low stone finca turned in on its own walled garden
- The gardenOrchard, kitchen beds and old fruit trees behind one wall
- The roomsA few, around the courtyard, kept simple and cool
- The settingInland east, near Sant Llorenç — quiet farmland, 15 min to the sea
S'hort · the garden
What the garden keeps, through the year.
The name is a promise: s'hort, the walled garden, is the reason the finca exists. It's worked the old way, by hand and by season, and most of what reaches the table is grown the far side of that wall.
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The orchard — fruiters
Fig, almond, lemon and orange in old rows, planted long before any guest came. In late summer the figs split on the branch; in winter the citrus carries the cold months.
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The kitchen beds — l'hortet
Tomatoes, peppers, beans and herbs in raised beds by the wall, watered from the old channel. Pick what you want for supper; the kitchen is yours to use.
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The well & the channel — el pou
The garden still drinks from its own well, run out along stone channels that flood the beds at dusk. The sound of water moving is, more than anything, the sound of the place.
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The shade — l'ombra
A carob, a fig, a vine over the courtyard — the finca keeps its own shade. Through the worst of the afternoon the garden is the cool place to be, and the only place anyone is.
The stay
A few rooms, each with its own piece of the garden.
The rooms are kept simple on purpose: thick walls, cool floors, a bed and a door that opens to the courtyard or the orchard. There's room for a family in the whole house, or a quiet corner for two.
Over the orchard
The Orchard Room
A room above the garden wall, the shutters opening straight onto the fruit trees. Best in spring, when the almond and the citrus are both in flower.
The whole house
The Whole Finca
Take the house entire — courtyard, kitchen, orchard and well — for a family or a slow week with no fixed plans. We hand over the keys and leave you to the garden.
The east
The soft side of the island, where it stays quiet.
Sant Llorenç des Cardassar is a working market town in the gentle east of Mallorca — windmills, dry-stone walls, long flat fields running down toward the sea. It is the side of the island people drive through on the way to somewhere louder, and never stop, which is exactly the point.
The coast is close when you want it. The coves of the Llevant are a short drive, the sand at Sa Coma and Cala Millor nearer still. But the finca is set back in the farmland, where the evenings are dark and the only traffic is the irrigation.
- 5 min Sant Llorenç des CardassarThe market town — the weekly market, the church, the everyday shops.
- 15 min Sa Coma & Cala MillorThe nearest long sand beaches, a swim and a late lunch by the water.
- 25 min The Llevant covesCala Varques and the wilder coast — pine, rock and clear water, few signs.
- 10 min Coves del Drac · ArtàThe caves, the old hilltown of Artà, the Tuesday market — the east at its slowest.
Book direct with the house
Write to the finca. We keep the garden, and the keys.
There's no front desk and no middleman. Tell us your dates, how many of you there are, and roughly what you're after. We answer every message ourselves, in English or Spanish, and tell you honestly what is free.