The four-poster, under the vault
A slim oak frame under a white vaulted ceiling, a window seat set into the wall, and the campo laid out through glass that runs to the floor. The room people ask for again.
A stone finca in the Mallorcan campo
The finca, bay by bay.
An old Mallorcan finca rebuilt in its own stone: a measured run of quiet rooms, each one framing a piece of the countryside, with a courtyard and a roof terrace over the hills.
B.01The finca
One long house of stone, read from end to end.
Sestelrica is a working country finca that was taken back to its walls and rebuilt: the same marès limestone, the same low roofline, the proportions left as they were found.
What got added is restraint. The house runs as a single measured line of bays — shuttered openings at an even rhythm, a pergola over each terrace, a room behind each one. Nothing competes with the stone, or with the view it was built to hold.
Small on purpose: a handful of rooms, a courtyard, a dining room with a fire, and the kind of quiet you only get this far into the island. The people who keep it have looked after it long enough to be rated the way they are.
- Built of
- Local marès limestone, restored to its original walls
- The house
- A single run of shuttered bays, each its own terrace
- Above it
- A stone roof terrace open to the Tramuntana
- Held by
- 4.7 across 121 guest reviews
B.02Stone & light
The walls do most of the work. The light does the rest.
Thick limestone holds the August heat outside and keeps the rooms cool and dim. Where a window is cut, it is cut on purpose: a measured opening that frames the campo and lets a single band of afternoon sun travel slowly across the plaster.
Inside, the same hand is at work. Bare stone is left where it looks good, oak and lime plaster cover the rest, and a hearth waits for the months the island goes quiet. A building that rewards sitting still in it.
The line the light keeps — across every wall
B.03Rooms
Each room is a bay, and a window onto the campo.
No two are identical, because the house is old and was reset rather than flattened. What they share: thick cool walls, oak and white linen, and a window placed exactly where the country is worth looking at.
The garden double
Cool and plain, with a low window that opens onto the garden and a hill beyond it. Two hand-blown lamps, an oak headboard, and walls thick enough that you hear nothing but the morning.
The oak room
A little more enclosed — fitted oak, a long bench at the foot of the bed, a mirror that catches the last of the light. Made for the cooler half of the year and the quiet that comes with it.
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
B.04The finca, in full
The house, the terraces, the hour the light turns.
From the roof terrace at dusk to the courtyard pergola and the table laid for breakfast — the finca across a day.
B.05The setting
Far enough in to be quiet. Close enough to everything.
The finca sits in open country in the hills of Mallorca: fields and dry-stone walls, the Tramuntana on the skyline, no road noise after dark. This is the part of the island people drive through looking for, and rarely get to stay in.
And it is central enough that the rest is in reach: the old towns, the markets, the coves of the coast, all an easy drive and back before the light goes.
- Nearest village
- A few minutes
- Palma
- About 40 min
- The coast & coves
- Half an hour or so
- Tramuntana
- On the skyline
B.06Stay
Come and stay in the stone.
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 which bay is free.