Another of the great historic estates of Mallorca is preparing to join the island's tourist offering, within the framework of a process that is already globalized and constant in the Balearic countryside. This is Montblanc, one of the most unique estates in Maria de la Salut, in the Pla de Mallorca, which for centuries was an important center of agricultural and livestock production and which now plans to transform part of the old outbuildings into an agrotourism site with 50 places. The buildings that for generations housed livestock will be converted, if the initiative prospers, into rooms and facilities intended for visitors. The company Solar de Conrado SL has promoted the project, with a material execution budget of 1.4 million euros, which has now been released for public information.

"The transformation of landholdings has deep roots. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, there was a first major separation, when the territories were divided from the lineages that had historically owned them," reflects historian Tomás Vibot, one of the leading experts on the subject. "But at that time, their customs were still maintained. Back then, the Mallorcan nobility owned a lot of land, but they didn't have cashAs soon as many properties were sold to other Mallorcans, in some cases they went to the original owners, the tenants who had made enough money to buy them; others passed to the new industrial bourgeoisie or even to those who had made their fortunes in the Americas. The latter is the case of Raixa, which the Despuig family sold, almost gave away, to Navidades, who had become rich in South America. Now, a hundred years later, the second great disconnection is not between territory and surnames, but between territory and nationality and, above all, between territory and utility,” he reflects.