Cap Rocat
A decommissioned fortress on its own cape, bounded by a moat, a drawbridge and two kilometres of protected shore.
Cap Rocat holds a cape on the south side of the Bay of Palma, published at eighty-eight acres with about two kilometres of coast. The ground was built as a defence: the Spanish crown fortified Cap Enderrocat after the loss of Cuba in 1898, cutting batteries, magazines and a moat into the rock so that the works are almost invisible from the sea. The estate's boundary is therefore not a fence or a hedge but a military perimeter — a drawbridge across a dry moat, ramparts, and guard posts at the entrance. No other record in this register is enclosed by something designed to stop an enemy.
Antonio Obrador restored it, turning batteries into suites, shooting buttresses into rooms cut in the cliff and, by one account, gun carriages into tables. The works carry Heritage Asset and National Monument status and the restoration took a Europa Nostra award. Counts are published at twenty-four rooms and at thirty. The cape lies within a protected natural area, its two kilometres of shore a marine reserve, and the house holds a rock beach with a jetty and a saltwater pool. It opens from mid-March to mid-November and discourages children under fourteen.
A boundary built to be defended. Moat, drawbridge and batteries were made to control a bay, and they now enclose a hotel. The estate did not draw its line; the Ministry of War did, and it has not moved.
Protected on both sides of the shore. The cape sits in a protected natural area and its coast is a marine reserve. What the estate holds is land inside a designation, and the water in front of it belongs to no one.
Who it is not for
Cap Rocat is wrong for families, since children under fourteen are discouraged. It is wrong for travellers who want sand, because the shore here is rock with a jetty and the beaches of Mallorca are a drive. It is wrong for anyone travelling between mid-November and mid-March, when the fortress is closed. For a Mediterranean estate whose enclosure is planting rather than masonry, Romazzino keeps sixty years of garden on Sardinia.
Sources
- Trade and hotel-association material - an estate of eighty-eight acres with about two kilometres of coastline on the Bay of Palma; a nineteenth-century military fortress restored by the architect Antonio Obrador; drawbridge, dry moat, bunkers and suites in former shooting buttresses; a rock beach with jetty and a saltwater pool; open mid-March to mid-November; children under fourteen discouraged
- Guide coverage - the fortress was built by the Spanish crown to protect Palma after Spain's loss of Cuba in 1898, cut into the cape so as to be almost invisible from the sea; the works carry Heritage Asset and National Monument status and the restoration won a Europa Nostra award; the cape lies in a protected natural area with a marine reserve along its shore
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- the estate is published as eighty-eight acres and, elsewhere, as a thirty-hectare nature reserve, which is about seventy-four; accommodation is given as twenty-four rooms by one guide and as thirty by several others. No figure is carried.
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