History of the Finca

After entering our chosen finca for the first time, we discovered some things inside that raised questions in us. Being very interested in the history of our house, we had decided to track down the original owners and ask them about the finca. We ourselves bought the finca from an Italian captain who had bought it a few years earlier for himself and his wife as a retirement home. But before he could start with the renovation, his wife left him, so that he wanted to sell the finca with a heavy heart. Through him we were able to find the previous owners and contacted them to arrange a meeting at the house. It came a 70 year old Mallorcan woman with her daughter, both very warm and overwhelmed by what we want to make of the house and property. We were then told that the house was a farm and they kept pigs, goats and pigeons there. Some of the pigs were slaughtered there, which explained why there were so many wooden posts sticking out of some of the walls, because that’s where the pig halves were hung to bleed out. To be honest, since then it gives us the creeps when we see the old wooden posts, but since they are part of the history of the house, we still want to preserve them.

The kitchen is black with soot and across the entire front extends a kind of huge extractor fan. Here one cooked at the open fire explained to us the Mallorcan and the “fume hood” is a large fireplace, which can also be seen on the upper floor. The two rooms to the left and right of the hallway were used as living rooms and bedrooms and the rooms on the upper floor were used as storage and pigeon loft.

The land was farmed, growing mostly grain and potatoes. After the death of her parents, the house then stood empty for years until it was finally put up for sale.

Unfortunately, there are no old pictures of the finca, but at least we now know what the house and land were used for in the past.