'POSSESSIO' SON GUAL ESTATE
This 'Possessio' or estate dates from the Moorish occupation and was
known as ulaxamen. It was registered in 1538 and covers land in the
Palma and Esporles municipalities; at this time its owner was Juan
Miguel Gual, Canon of the cathedral of Palma. Originally, vines, olive
trees, carob beans and cereal were grown on the farm and from the 16th
to the 18th Century the 'Possessio' was known as 'Son Gual de
Pocafarina' (Little flour),
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although not because it produced so
little flour but, rather, because it was one of the most productive
farms in the area. There are even those who still call it by this name
today. According to the Gran Enciclopedia de Mallorca (Great Majorcan
Encyclopaedia) the family of Juan Roten Sureda, Marquis of Campofranco,
bought the estate in 1891.
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