New product with our oranges...

Flor de sal has made an special edition that will be soon in the markets with aroma of our oranges.

http://www.gustomundial.com/

Message from Mezzo Sailing...

I am just emailing you to let you know that I am now doing a walking/sailing trip to and from Cala Tuent.The walk either guided or non guided depending on the clients walk from the mirador along the fantastic costal path to Cala Tuent, where the boat will meet them and from there will be sailed back to the Port of Soller or even Cala Deia via various attractions i.e Caves etc.Lunch can either be provided in the restaurant in Cala Tuent or on board.

Photo of Cala Tuent

"Sa mostra" from 14 th to 19th July

One more year, 28 in total, Soller will host the international folcloric exhibition.

The paticipaiting groups are:

Miromagnum (Itália), Esbart Català de Dansaires (Catalunya), Buscajà (Colómbia), Tiblisi University Ensemble (Geórgia), Jin-Hee Park Dance Company (Corea), Homma (Egipto) y Aires Sollerics.

Program of activities:

Monday 14th, at 21:30 presentation and perfomance of all the groups
Thuesday 15th, at 22:00 performance of Esbart Català de Dansaires (Catalunya).
Wednesday 16th at 22:00 performance of Homma (Egipto).
Friday 18th, at 22:00 performance of the local group Aires Sollerics and Jin-hee park dance (Corea).
Saturday 19th, at 22:00 last performance of all the groups.

More information:

http://sollernet.com/samostra/index.html

Special discount for our guest

From this week, our guest have the 15 % discount in the exclusive shop of Tony Mora.

http://www.tonymora.com/

Would you like to receive the newspaper every morning?

That´s the new service available in Ca´s Sant, you can receive the daily newspaper and read it during the breakfast.

Price for the newspaper (the same as in the news stand):

International Herald Tribune 2.5 euros

The guardian 3 euros

Daily Telegraph 3.2 euros

Ca´s Sant in The Observer

We have been chosen one of the best 20 Agroturismos in Mallorca.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/may/11/balearicislands.spain

Fiestas de Soller (9th to 12th of Mai)

As every second weekend of May, the people of sóller prepares to live through their town festival.

During the whole weekend a wide program of activities they will fill with light, color and ambience the center of Sóller

Friday 9th of Mai:

- From 10 p.m. several musical groups will play in the center of Sóller.

Saturday 10 th of Mai:

- 5 p.m Gift of flowers to the virgin

- 10 pm Big dance festival in the center

Sunday 11th Mai:

- 10 am Artesan and livestock farming fair

- 5: 30 pm Tradiotional majorcan dance by the local group "Aires Sollerics"

- 10 pm Music concert in the center

Monday 12 th Mai, Es Firò, the most inportant day in Soller

- 3 pm touch of bells, the enemies have been discerned.

- 3: 30 Plaza Constitucion, the pageses (local people) go towards the battle

- 5 pm The muslim troops try to disembark on the beach

- 6:15 pm They disembark in the platja d'en Repic

- 7 pm Battle in Pont D`en Varona

- 8 pm The Muslims come to the square of Sóller

- 8:20 pm The muslims celebrate the victory

- 8:30 The pageses regroup and plant facing the mulims troops

- 9 pm the pageses celebrate the victory

My recommendations: To dress old clothes and of black color.

Mai 17th, fira de la taronja i la llimona

This day and for the second year, the square of Sóller will host the "2nd fira de la taronja i la llimona".

There ,all the local business that do of the orange their form of life, will be provided with their own stand in which they will offer his products to the visitors.

Of course, Finca Ca´s Sant will have one.

Our "aroma industry" starts to work

Could you imagine the special atmosphere that produce the "azahar aroma" in Ca´s Sant?
We have near 1000 orange-trees and every orange tree produces 100.000 flowers.

We have some rooms free the next weeks.

The blossom will last until the end of April/begining of Mai.

Sailing trips

Treat yourself to a sail off the fantastic coast off the north Mallorca and swim in places where you can only arrive by boat.

Chris the captain, will be glad to show you the nicest places in the area and also if you like, will prepare a picnic for you.

Restaurant Es Canyis

One more season, and 54 go already, the restaurant Es Canyis in Port Soller opens the doors again.

There you will taste the most fresh fish in Port Soller.

More information: http://www.escanyis.es/home.htm

Bon profit!

TRIO CLASSIC again with us this season

After the big success of the musical parties, this year we repeat it again.

Article in the german Magazine "Zu Hause Wohnen"

This month of Februar the readers of this german magazine will find an article about adopting an orange-tree in our finca.

Monday, 4th of Februar

The moment has come, we begin the collection of the orange, collection which will finish in May.

The Spring has arrived to Majorca

The almond trees are bloomed, the first symptom of the spring arrival

Ca´s Sant, a truly singular farm

Sóller oranges are famous for being exquisite and especially sweet, and yet in spite of this there are fewer and fewer farms devoted to the cultivation of them.
Orange trees were introduced into the valley during Mallorca’s period of Muslim rule (which lasted from the 8th to the 13th century), and ancient writings bear witness to this. And it was during this period that the irrigation ditches were built, to channel and conduct the water from the different springs that flow from the mountains down to the orchards. Most of these channels and ditches are still used today. One of these irrigation channels runs beside the entrance to Finca Ca´s Sant ( Sa Font de S´Ullet, which has its source in S´Alqueria del Compte), and the water from it is used to irrigate the orange plantation during spring and summer. The plantation has been totally replaced with varieties resistant to the new viroses, and in this way it contributes to perpetuating a crop that is so closely bound to the valley: oranges.

In the year 1228 the decision was taken to conquer Mallorca in the court of the kingdom of Aragon, with Jaime I as king. Important figures under the command of Jaime I were count Nuño Sanz, Guillem de Montcada, viscount of Bearn, Hugo IV, count of Ampurias and his son Ponce Hugo, and the bishops of Barcelona and Gerona.

The troops brought by Hugo IV, the count of Ampurias, included members of the Coll family, alias “Sant” (a nickname derived from the participation of members of this family in the crusades to save the holy land in the 12th century).

Having completed the conquest of Mallorca in 1230, the lands were divided amongst all those who collaborated. The district of Sóller was divided into 3 parts, one of which was handed over to Guillem de Montcada, viscount of Bearn, with the other two being assigned to Hugo IV, count of Ampurias.

One of the parts given to the Count of Ampurias is what is currently known as S´Alqueria del Compte (the count’s farmstead), and the Ca’s Sant farm lay within these lands.

When the new lands were made over to the nobles, they divided them in turn amongst the most important knights who had helped them during the conquest. The knights of the Count of Ampurias included members of the Coll family, and around the year 1300 they were given some estates that came to be called Ca’s Sant, in honour of the alias “Sant” by which they were known.

From the time when the estate was handed over until the year 1759 the farm was inherited by the firstborn son of the Coll family. These circumstances changed in the year 1759 when the family only had female descendants and the firstborn daughter, Catherina Coll Morell, married Antoni Joan Arbona Ballester, who in turn took on the alias of “Sant”. From this year on the surname of Arbona has owned the farm generation after generation, right down to our times.

Today we are proud to state that Ca´s Sant has belonged to the same family since the 13th century, and has never been bought or sold; naturally, over the years, Ca´s Sant has passed through times of greater and lesser splendour, changing even with regard to its dimensions. There is no doubt that it was Jaime Arbona Colom, who received the farm in 1950, who transformed its physiognomy, acquiring some adjoining orchards and carrying out modernisation work on the farm and the house, and also designing the romantic Garden of Ca´s Sant.
Thirty years later ownership has come to his daughter, Lourdes Arbona, who has made the most significant alterations to Ca’s Sant, turning the property into a small, charming hotel, renovating the farm entirely and creating products that are derived from it, such as the farm’s own marmalade. Today a new generation bears witness to the responsibility implied by over seven hundred years of history...

Special prices for rent a car

Renault Modus 22 euros/day
Renault Megane 27 euros/day
Mercedes Clase A 30 euros/day
Mini Cooper cabrio 40 euros/day

Minimal rent of 4 days.
Full insurance without exemption included in the price.
Illimited kilometers.
Offer available until 15 Mars 2008