Finca Son Jorbo seen across its grounds at midday: tall cypresses and old olive trees, a low dry-stone wall and the honey-stone house behind under a clear blue sky

Agroturismo · Porreres, Mallorca

A finca measured in five.

Five apartments, each named for a piece of the sky or the land, set in an olive grove a stone's throw from Porreres. Finca and hotel, at the same time.

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01The finca

Finca or hotel? Here it is both, without choosing.

Son Jorbo is a working agroturismo in the warm middle of the island — an old stone house, an olive grove around it, and five apartments run with the privacy of a finca and the comforts of a good hotel.

Guests tend to arrive and say the same thing: exactly what we were looking for, only a little nicer. You let yourself in to your own door, cook on your own terrace if you feel like it, and still find a homemade breakfast laid for you in the morning.

Tina and Markus keep it. They came from Germany and never quite left the island again, and most days end the way the island likes them to — at the long table, over a bottle and a few excursion tips, the kind of evening a holiday is supposed to have.

What it is
A five-apartment agroturismo in an olive grove near Porreres
The mix
Finca privacy with the comforts and breakfast of a hotel
Run by
Tina & Markus, in person, at the long table
Held at
5.0 across 80 guest reviews

02The five apartments

Each one carries a name from the sky, or the land.

Star, moon, sea, sun, earth. Five apartments, no two the same — each with its own terrace, a flat kitchen for the days you'd rather stay in, and air conditioning the old walls rarely need.

  1. Estrella The star A four-poster under the eaves and a hidden roof terrace over the olive grove — two guests, on two levels, with the sky to themselves. 2 guests · four-poster · 12 m² roof terrace
  2. Luna The moon Cool and quiet for the evenings, with its own terrace to catch the last of the light and the first of the night air. Private terrace · flat kitchen · A/C
  3. Mar The sea Light and open, for the kind of guest who is half here and half already at Es Trenc — a short drive south to the water. Bright living room · flat kitchen · terrace
  4. Sol The sun The warm one, made for slow mornings on the terrace with the coffee and the day's plans laid out in front of you. Sun terrace · flat kitchen · A/C
  5. Tierra The earth Grounded and calm at garden level, closest to the grove and the pool — the one you don't want to leave once you've unpacked. Garden level · flat kitchen · steps to the pool

Dates and apartments are confirmed straight with the house — no agent, no commission between you and the people who keep the place. Check dates

The long finca table laid under a reed canopy, dappled afternoon light across the wood, place settings in turquoise, cypresses and the olive grove beyond

03The long table

Most of what people remember happens here.

Under the reed canopy, in the shade the grove makes in the afternoon, the long table is where the day at Son Jorbo collects. Breakfast in the morning; bread, olives and a bottle of wine in the evening; restaurant tips traded between people who were strangers at lunch.

Breakfast is the part most guests talk about afterwards: homemade jams, fruit salad, eggs done how you like them, and orange juice squeezed that morning — enough to undo whatever you'd heard about Spanish breakfasts.

  • Homemade breakfast, included
  • An honesty bar for the slow evenings
  • A flat kitchen in every apartment

04The grounds

An olive grove, a pool, and shade you can plan a day around.

Mediterranean garden, a pool with day beds, dry-stone walls and the old grove — the favourite spots are the ones you find for yourself.

The honey-stone facade of the finca draped in ivy, a timber pergola and terracotta pots along a gravel forecourt, a tall palm to one side
The house, in its ivy
The shaded loggia: a terracotta-tiled floor, ivy along the beams, an old iron table and a bench under hanging lanterns, the garden glowing green beyond
The shaded loggia
A wicker table on a private apartment terrace, two glasses of rosé and a bottle, the valley and distant hills opening up beyond the wall under a palm
A terrace, late afternoon
The gravel courtyard with a great fan palm rising from a circular stone bed, the house and cypresses framing it under a clear sky
The courtyard palm
A path through the Mediterranean garden, lavender and shrubs along dry-stone edges, olive trees and the house behind
Through the garden
The old olive grove at the edge of the grounds, gnarled trunks and silver leaves running back toward low wooded hills
The olive grove
The dry-stone gateposts at the entrance to Son Jorbo, a gravel drive curving in past palms and cypresses toward the house, a small SON JORBO sign on the stone

05The setting

Deep in the middle of the island, with the coast still in reach.

Son Jorbo sits in open country a stone's throw from Porreres — a real Mallorcan town of stone alleys, cafés, a couple of churches and a contemporary-art museum, the kind of place the island still belongs to itself.

It is the warm, unhurried south, and well placed for the rest of it: Palma and the airport about half an hour up the MA-15, the salt-flat beaches and coves a short drive, the wild cliffs of the north a longer one when the mood takes you.

Porreres
A stone's throw
Palma & airport
About 30 min
Es Trenc beach
A short drive south
Cap Formentor
About 1½ hours

Run on sun, and its own water.

The island gives a lot of light, so the finca takes it: solar for the hot water, the cooling and the winter heat. The drinking water comes from the finca's own treatment, free and on tap, so there's no need for a single plastic bottle. Local produce, separated waste — the quiet, unbragged kind of sustainability.

06Stay

Pick your one of the five.

Tell the house your dates and how many of you there are, and they'll tell you which of the five is free. It's booked direct — the same people who'll lay your breakfast and point you to the right cove.

Check dates & book Email the finca
info@fincasonjorbo.com +34 641 34 58 18 5.0 · 80 guest reviews