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La Granja
Cultural Mallorca

LA GRANJA,  a beautiful 10th century mansion, surrounded by lush vegetation, beautiful gardens and natural fountains is situated 15 Km from Palma, in Esporles.  Its magnificent natural spring which is thirty feet high was valued by the Romans for the vast quantity of water which flowed.  It was also of great interest to the Moors, who were dominant on this island from the 10th to the 13th century. 

La Granja, and all that it now offers us in the present time, came into being as the result of many periods and changes experienced by the island itself and its many different cultures. This exceptional house is a mixture of stately and rustic styles having been used not only as a residence but also as an estate dedicated to agricultural production, which at one time had more than a hundred workers.  La Granja contains within its walls and its gardens elements of its rich cultural past and is now a genuine living display of Mallorcan customs throughout history.

Looking back in history, after the Moors came the Christian conquest of 1229 and yet another new phase began and for La Granja a brief period of feudal possession, until in 1230 it was handed over to the Cistercian monks, who held it for 200 years. It then became the property of D. Mateo Vida whose family owned it for another 200 years and then passed it to the Fortuny family. The present owner is D. Cristóbal Seguí Colom.