The stone finca, low against a blue sky, framed by pines above its dry-stone wall and lawn

Agroturisme · Sant Llorenç des Cardassar

One wall, and everything it keeps inside.

S'Hort de sa Begura — the walled orchard of Begura. A low stone finca in the soft east of the island, with a pool among the cypresses and a few apartments kept for the people who find it.

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SettingA walled orchard, inland

NearSant Llorenç · eastern Mallorca

The poolLong, among the cypresses

Kept forA 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 farmland east of Sant Llorenç — the part of Mallorca 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's not a hotel and never tries to be. The land is still tended; the orchard still gives. A handful of apartments 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 poolA long pool set in the lawn, screened by cypress
The settingInland east, near Sant Llorenç — quiet farmland, 15 min to the sea

The stone wall of the finca and the gravel path running past the orchard, the citrus trees in low winter light — The wall and the path that runs the length of the orchard.

A shaded patio with a table and chairs against the weathered facade, a painted door and potted plants

The courtyard

Through the worst of the afternoon, the patio in the shade of the wall is the cool place to be — and most days the only place anyone is.

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, by season — and most of what reaches the table is grown the far side of that wall.

An orange tree heavy with ripe fruit and dark green leaves

The orchard

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.

A lush garden bed against a low stone wall, pampas and oleander in bloom before the house

The kitchen beds

Tomatoes, peppers, beans and herbs in beds by the wall, watered from the old channel. Pick what you want for supper; the kitchen is yours to use.

A vine coiled along an old pipe against a textured terracotta wall

The well & the channel

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.

A hammock slung between two trees on the lawn before the stone building

The shade

A carob, a fig, a vine over the courtyard, a hammock between two trees — the finca keeps its own shade, and the long afternoons are spent in it.

The long pool, blue and still, screened by a row of tall cypress trees on a clear day

The pool

A long pool, screened by cypress, with the fields beyond.

Set into the lawn at the edge of the orchard, the pool is long enough to swim properly and quiet enough to hear nothing but the trees. The cypresses keep it private; the afternoon keeps it warm.

The apartments

A few apartments, each with its own piece of the garden.

The apartments are kept simple on purpose: thick walls, cool floors, a beamed ceiling, 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.

A bedroom with a wide bed, a carved wooden headboard and a beamed ceiling

By the courtyard

The Courtyard Apartments

Thick-walled rooms off the shaded patio, dim and cool at midday, with beamed ceilings and doors onto the vine and the well.

Bedroom · kitchen · shaded patio

A living room with a table and chairs, rustic furniture and a television

Over the orchard

The Orchard Apartment

A sitting room and kitchen above the garden wall, the shutters opening straight onto the fruit trees. Best in spring, when the almond and citrus are both in flower.

Living room · kitchen · garden view

A kitchen with a table and chairs, fitted to a rustic finca interior

The whole house

The Whole Finca

Take the house entire — courtyard, kitchens, orchard and pool — for a family or a slow week with no fixed plans. We hand over the keys and leave you to the garden.

Exclusive use · on request

A balcony with a table and chairs set under a cream canopy

Private balconies

The Balcony Rooms

The upper rooms open onto private balconies with a table and chairs set under a canopy — looking out over the orchard and the fields. Morning coffee; the sound of the garden below.

Balcony · orchard view

The finca, in pictures

A walk through the walls.

The stone finca behind its boundary wall, set back in the fields under a wide sky

The pool set in grass and trees, the stone house behind

A window with teal-green shutters set in a white frame

A pergola standing out in a green field at the edge of the grounds

The stone house and a gravel path running between olive and citrus trees under a blue sky

A white cat sitting on the stone patio among potted plants

A weathered wooden door set in the stone wall, under the shade of a tree

Purple flowers in the foreground with the warm-stone house beyond

A simple twin room, two beds beneath a window

A clean bathroom with a basin and a walk-in shower

An old, many-branched tree standing in the grounds of the finca

A rusted dog-shaped bell mounted on the textured stone wall

The pool with its loungers and straw parasols

The stone building with balconies above the green lawn

Flowers before the warm facade, the door and stone steps open

A second bedroom, a wide bed and a bedside table

A kitchen, white cabinets and black granite tops

A balcony with table and chairs beside a wide window

An old, weathered door studded with rusted iron

A stone oven and grill, built in, half under cover

A turkey, tail fanned, among the chickens

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's 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.

A pergola in the green grounds of the finca at the close of day

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, Spanish or German — and tell you honestly what is free.

Email the finca Visit sabegura.com

reservas@sabegura.com