Ibiza Property Agents

The brief history of Can Sa Roca…this original grand Ibicenco finca (Can Vicente Sa Roca) is well over three-hundred-years-old. It was bought at the beginning of the 1960s by the millionaire, Albertini, who commissioned the renowned Ibicenco master builder of the period, Francisco Viñas, to reconstruct the property into his luxury stately home where he frequently threw lavish dinner parties attended by such noble gentry as the Shah of Iran and Aristotle Onassis…along with film stars Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and many other celebrities of that swinging era.

Albertini sold Can Sa Roca at the end of the 1970s to a Belgium playboy who died in the mid-1980s…it was then left it to his two children, who eventually neglected the property and allowed it to deteriorate until they finally sold the place.

The present owner is a local Ibicenco businessman, who bought the run down property and for over the past fifteen years or so he has been putting lots of time and money into restoring the residency to once again make a stately home of Can Sa Roca. The main heavy work such as building, a new roof, rewiring electricity cable, replacing the water piping has now been completed throughout the whole of the property in accordance to the requirements for it being granted a rural hotel license. There has also been a new air-conditioning system installed in each of the completed twelve bedrooms. The personal cosmetic work and furnishing are the next steps to be taken.

There is a private camino (lane) with a good surface leading up from the main (Camino de Sa Vorera) road to Can Sa Roca, which is a gigantic country style mansion, perched on the side of a hill enclosed in fifty-three thousand square metres of private land with secluded gardens and grounds offering views overlooking the tranquil countryside and also the Bay of San Antonio.

Sa Roca is the largest residences on the island of Ibiza…it consists of twelve (eight more that can be constructed) complete double bedrooms all inclusive with bathrooms en-suite and also air-conditioning in each. The front door steps lead up from the car parking area into the impressive entrance hall with a minstrel gallery, which has a wooden staircase each side of the main hall leading up to the first floor where the bedrooms are to be found. To the left of the entrance on the ground floor there is a large banqueting room that leads out onto a terrace, gardens and then to the original huge swimming-pool, which has a purpose built bar and barbecue area. To the right of the entrance on the ground floor there is another large (breakfast) room and a separate big kitchen. There is also a patio garden with a fountain directly off the main entrance hall. The front of the property is facing the south so throughout the day there is continuously good light from when the sun rises in the east to it setting in the west.