"Upon entering the house we come to the main room, illuminated only by the light let in by the wide opening in the door. Like the cases (“houses”) in the mountainous part of the island, the walls are white and the wood ceiling beams exposed. This occurs even in the best endowed homes. The floor tends to be covered in stone tiles or, at times, brick. Some simply consist of tamped earthen floors.
A very wide arch separates this room from the next, the latter generally used to store all manner of tools. This one in turn leads to a small, simple kitchen with a small glass pane incrusted in the wall through which we can see. Up a curved stairwell in the kitchen we come to the top floor where we find the bedrooms, whitewashed and without any decor but, as in the rest of the house, very tidy and, of course, without any types of pests. In many homes, a door leads from the downstairs storage room to a small garden with lemon trees or a type of patio where they keep the pigs and from where you can access the horse stables. This means that animals have no other choice but to go through the door and the house’s main rooms to get outside, something we see not only in the countryside but in larger towns such as Manacor."
Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria.Las Baleares por la palabra y el grabado. Majorca: General Part. Ed. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares. Palma de Mallorca. 1982
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