Binibona is a small hamlet tucked against the Serra de Tramuntana in the north of Mallorca, where the lanes narrow and the olive terraces climb towards the mountains. Ca'n Beneït sits in the middle of it all, on an estate of around 70 hectares.
The house is old Mallorcan stone, the colour of toast in the evening light, with green shutters, deep doorways and bougainvillea pulled across the walls. There is an olive mill, a little chapel, and gardens that drift from lavender to wild grass.
It is run by Toni Durán and Toni Soler, who have kept it feeling like a family house rather than a hotel, even with ten rooms to look after.
The rooms keep the bones of the house in view: rough stone walls left bare behind the bed, beamed ceilings, carved wooden headboards and soft linen, with very little else competing for attention.
For a holiday home in the truest sense, there is The Villa: three bedrooms for up to six people, with its own infinity pool looking out over the valley. It is the kind of place where a week disappears into long breakfasts and slow afternoons in the shade.
Ca'n Beneït closes for the winter, from 19 November to 24 February, so this is one to plan for spring. Until then, the hot pink of the bougainvillea lives on in Buganvilla.
All photography via Ca'n Beneït
