The dry-stone facade of Finca Es Torrent den Cosme at dusk, its windows lit warm against a deep blue sky

Ses Salines · the flat south of Mallorca

A stone house four flat metres above the sea.

Five bedrooms of dry stone on the brightest, flattest corner of the island — no hill, no high-rise, the salt pans of Ses Salines on one side and the white sand of Es Trenc on the other.

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Scroll — the land runs down to the sea

Where the finca stands

There is a Mallorca that never climbs.

One island goes up — into the Tramuntana, the switchbacks, the cloud. The other lets go of height entirely: a wide, sun-struck plain where the Phoenicians laid out salt pans to dry, and where the horizon is a single clean line in every direction. Es Torrent den Cosme sits squarely in the second one, four flat metres above the Mediterranean.

So we'll show you the house the way you actually read this land — by altitude. From the thick stone walls down through the long table in their shade, across the old salt flats, to the moment the plain runs out at Es Trenc and touches the water at zero.

The pool and thatched parasols with the dead-flat farmland of the south of Mallorca running to a low horizon
+3 mThe land behind the pool, running flat to the skyline
  1. +4 mabove sea

    The stone

    Two storeys of hand-laid marès, walls a forearm thick. They hold the cool through August and turn the colour of a lamp the moment the sun drops.

  2. +3 mabove sea

    The shade

    A white pergola against the warm wall, a pool, thatched parasols. The whole day is spent out here, a step below the house and a long way above the heat.

  3. +2 mabove sea

    The salt

    Past the dry-stone wall, the farmland and the old salines run flat to the skyline. Almond, olive, fig; gravel that crunches; nothing tall enough to interrupt the line.

  4. 0 msea level

    The sea

    Ten flat minutes south the plain simply ends, and Es Trenc begins — five kilometres of white sand and clear, shallow turquoise. The reading hits zero.

The terracotta-rendered wing of Finca Es Torrent den Cosme in daylight, framed by tall palms over a gravel courtyard

The house, at the top of the drop

Built to hold a long, hot day.

The old farmhouse has been kept honest — thick marès walls, green shutters, a vaulted entrance, terracotta floors worn smooth. The day is spent outside; the stone is simply where you go to be cool and quiet. By night the windows turn the colour of a lamp lit indoors.

Inside the stone

Five bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen that feeds everyone.

Room enough for two families or a gathering of friends — cool tiled floors, shuttered windows, and corners enough that nobody has to share the day unless they want to.

The living room with an exposed dry-stone wall, blue sofas and a fireplace

The living room

An exposed marès wall, deep sofas and a fireplace for the cooler evenings of spring and autumn.

A double bedroom with a shuttered window at Finca Es Torrent den Cosme

The bedrooms

Five in all, double and twin, each kept simple and cool behind green shutters.

The kitchen at the finca, with wood cabinets and a wooden dining table

The kitchen

Wood cabinets and a table that seats the whole house — the indoor counterpart to the pergola outside.

A twin bedroom with blue throws and a shuttered window
A twin room, blue against the white
A second living area with blue sofas and a doorway out to the garden
A second sitting room, open to the garden
A bathroom with a shuttered window at the finca
One of the bathrooms

A step down, into the open

The pool, the gravel, the dry-stone wall — and then nothing but the plain.

The pool with two thatched parasols, blue loungers and a low stone tower behind
+3 mThe pool, parasols up, a step below the house
A garden corner with a clipped bay, gravel and old stone troughs replanted with lavender and marigold
Old stone troughs, lavender and marigold
The pool seen across the terracotta deck, loungers in a row and low hills on the horizon
Warm terracotta deck, low hills beyond

Under the white pergola

Long lunches in the shade of the wall.

The white pergola throws soft shade against the warm stone, and the table seats everyone at once. This is the south — market tomatoes, almonds, an ensaïmada from the village, a bottle from a Ses Salines vineyard, and an afternoon with nowhere it needs to be.

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The white pergola and dining table in golden evening light at Finca Es Torrent den Cosme
An outdoor dining table and chairs under the white pergola against the dry-stone wall, by day
Midday — the table set in the shade
The pergola and a set table at dusk, warm light against the stone wall
Dusk — and the same table, slower
The clear, pale-turquoise shallows of Es Trenc over white sand, boats on the horizon

Where the plain runs out

The land stops. The water starts.

Ses Salines is the last town before the south coast — salt works on one side, vineyards and farmland on the other. Follow the flat road and the plain runs straight out into Es Trenc: protected dunes, no high-rise, water so clear and pale it reads like the tropics.

Open clear turquoise water under a wide sky on the south coast of Mallorca
Clear water off the south coast
An aerial view of a sheltered cove and small harbour town on the south coast
A sheltered cove nearby
The pale turquoise shallows of Es Trenc over white sand
The shallows at Es Trenc

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Es Torrent den Cosme is let privately — no agency standing between you and the people who keep the house. Send the dates you have in mind and how many of you there'll be, and you'll hear from Fernando himself.

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Ses Salines · south Mallorca · 4 m above the sea