This Sunday will mark eight months since a large rock fell from the cliff at Cala Sant Esteve (Es Castell), crushing the villa below and landing right on top of a 65-year-old man while he was sleeping. His wife, Olga, was left seriously injured by his side and has still not been able to overcome her grief. In fact, neither she nor her daughter Carme have been able to return to the house. “Everything remains the same: the rock, the rubble, the damage… yet we continue to pay as if we still lived there,” complains the couple's daughter. This Friday, along with 13 other neighbors and in the presence of her mother, she appeared before the cameras and journalists to draw the attention of political leaders and demand that procedures and aid be accelerated so that everyone can return home.

Cala Sant Esteve is located five and a half kilometers from the center of Mahón and two kilometers from the Castle (formerly the Sant Felip district), to the right of the harbor entrance. It is a small inlet, 650 meters long and 50 meters wide, occupied by two buildings of great historical interest: to the left, the Castle of San Felipe, built by the Spanish in the 16th century, and to the right, Fort Marlborough, built by the British in the 18th century. Outside the cove, on a hill to the right of the harbor entrance, stands the Penjat Tower, dating from 1789. This string of structures had the sole purpose of protecting the entrance to the port of Mahón from a point considered a true Achilles' heel for its defense. Not surprisingly, Cala Sant Esteve was the usual entry point for pirate raids, including Barbarossa's in September 1535.