A farm in Mallorca went up for sale for 16.4 million four months twelve years ago

Between both prices is a comprehensive home reform and an application for a license to dedicate it to agritourism. The price multiplied by four is based on these two arguments and another argument that has not been made public: the exorbitant capital gains that mutual funds or billionaires with large amounts of dormant money are supposedly willing to pay.

The buildings originally date from the 17th century. and they rise over an area of ​​970,000 square meters. The property has been owned by the Sampol de Son Curt family for four centuries, who have presided over the Provincial Assembly, producing politicians and prominent historians.

The seller assures that the reform, which he shows with images of how it will look from the outside, will be finished in 2024. According to the Living Blue real estate portal, the house is structured on three floors and “the planned project provides 8 to 12 bedrooms.” It also announced the addition of “additional outbuildings, guesthouses, stables, spa, swimming pool and barbecue area”. Other virtues of the property include facilities such as agricultural production, hunting or direct access to the Serra de Tramuntana. A place in the middle of “virgin nature”, a guarantee of privacy and a short distance from Alaró. Less tangible guarantees are also advertised, speaking of a place framed between the Castell mountains and Puig de s’Alcadena, which attracts “because of its legendary and magical power.”

Alaró’s Heritage Items Catalogue highlights that these are houses containing a tafona and a chapel. Although in need of extensive reform, Tafona retains all the essential elements for oil production and, despite the introduction of a modern press, retains the ‘biga’ used in the past to extract juice from pressed olives. esports players.

Also noteworthy is the 19th century garden at the back of the building. The plan is H-shaped with two side blocks protecting the central entrance. The entire façade is carved stone.

The last generation of the Sampol family, the owner of Son Curt, generously donated the family archive to the Alaró town hall and the Al Rum Cultural Association. Among the documents transferred are all documents related to the Alaró Railway, others related to the Castle, and hundreds of cases involving Majorcan nobility in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The transmission reported by Diario de Mallorca has recently been expanded by family correspondence and 17th-century books bound in parchment that refer to family epics or, for example, funerals in the church of Alaró.