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Puigpunyent is a working mountain village 20 km from Palma, in a green valley of terraces, old estates and dry-stone paths under the 1,027 m peak of Galatzó. This is the guide to all of it: Puigpunyent, Galilea and Son Serralta.
Say it: pootch-poon-YENT
Property in Puigpunyent
Fincas, village houses and exceptional addresses shaped by the Tramuntana landscape, fifteen minutes from Palma inside a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.
The residence · For sale
An 18th-century Mallorcan possession between Puigpunyent and Esporles, with vineyard, olive groves and extraordinary restoration potential.
in homes listed for sale in Puigpunyent on Idealista: 74 listings, 40 of them over €1 million, from village houses to a €29.5M estate. Counting homes shown by more than one agent only once, that is about €108M across 55 distinct homes. Idealista, October 2026.
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A 1,480 m² country house on 13 hectares with olive grove, vineyard and kitchen garden, and a direct path into the village.
9 bed · 11 bath · 130,000 m² land Ranked the 5th most expensive home for sale in Spain (Idealista, August 2026). View on Idealista Finca · First Mallorca €3,995,000A secluded, fully renovated finca on a sunny 17,000 m² plot with mountain views, a few minutes from the village.
5 bed · 4 bath · 17,066 m² land View on Idealista Historic house · Galilea · Living Blue €3,950,000A historic country house on 12 hectares at the edge of Galilea, with views over the valley to the sea, yet walkable to the village.
4 bed · 3 bath · 120,000 m² land View on Idealista Hilltop house · Olive Island Properties €2,200,000An authentic Mallorcan house dating from 1700, on a hilltop above the Son Net forest with long views down the valley.
4 bed · 3 bath · 24,000 m² land View on Idealista Village house · John Taylor €1,300,000A bright, newly renovated town house on Carrer de la Vila with a separate guest apartment, patio and garage for two cars.
4 bed · 3 bath · 272 m² built View on Idealista All homes for sale 55 homesAll 74 listings in one place, with duplicates merged. Filter by village and price, and ask about any home.
See all homes Land and plots for sale 25 plotsEvery plot on the market in Galilea, Son Serralta and Puigpunyent, from €130,000, plus a restaurant and a bar for sale.
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A recently renovated country house on 13 hectares at the edge of Puigpunyent, within walking distance of the village. Portals have called it one of the most expensive homes for sale in Spain.
A vine-covered central courtyard opens the ground floor, with the cinema, office, gym and spa. Six bedrooms and a living room with an open fire fill the first floor; the master suite has the whole top floor, with two bathrooms and a dressing room. The kitchen and dining room open straight onto the garden terraces.
The estate makes its own Sauvignon white wine, olive oil and honey. Mediterranean gardens, several terraces and a path into the village.
Details as listed by Living Blue Mallorca on Idealista, October 2026, in our own words. Press: Mallorca Magazin.
Prices and details as listed on Idealista in October 2026 and subject to change. Puigpunyent.com is not the selling agent.
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Local guide · Eat & drink
No restaurant strip here. Tables are spread between the village square and the estates, so check opening days before you drive up. The full restaurant guide
Village restaurant and tapas bar with a green terrace facing the Tramuntana. Among the best rated in the municipality.
Dinner in Son Net's 1672 manor, set around the estate's original olive press, with Km 0 cooking from the hotel garden. For lunch, El Gazebo serves Mediterranean dishes on the terrace.
Breakfast to dinner, burgers and pizza, plus a deli. Look for the yellow parasols as you enter from Palma. Carrer de Ciutat 6.
The villagers' bar for about twenty years: Mallorcan cooking, rice dishes and a proper variat, plus kids' plates and plenty of riders at lunch. Usually closed on Mondays.
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The old Bar Es Pont at the start of Sa Travessia, fully refurbished, serving tapas and Mallorcan and international dishes from breakfast on. Usually closed on Thursdays.
On the church square in Galilea. Come for the terrace and the view, stay for pa amb oli, lobster with fried eggs and the cheesecake.
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Pizzas and Mediterranean, mostly Italian, cooking on the road into Galilea, with a children's menu and plenty of starters to share.
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Galilea's well-rated restaurant, a good reason to drive up the Ma-1032 for lunch after a walk.
Village bakery for ensaïmadas and coca before a walk.
Two family wineries in the valley. Tastings by arrangement with the producer.
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A tafona is an oil mill. This one keeps the terrace olive tradition alive. Ask ahead about visits.
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Stay
Five stars in a manor built in 1672 above the village: 31 rooms and suites, an infinity pool, two restaurants and a serious contemporary art collection.
A spa finca at the foot of Galatzó, next door to La Reserva.
A rural hotel in a stone manor house with gardens, a cloister, defence towers and a 15th-century oil mill, on the Palma side of the valley.
Rural stay on the old path toward Estellencs.
Five rooms and an apartment on a 300-hectare estate of olive, pine and holm oak, with a pool and a terrace over the valley. Ctra. Palma to Puigpunyent km 10.
A stone villa on almost 30,000 m² between Puigpunyent and Esporles, with four bedrooms, a pool and wide Tramuntana views. You will want a car.
An eco-finca that also runs guided walks, yoga retreats and a cycling hub for riders in the Tramuntana.
Private rentals with pools and mountain views across Puigpunyent and Galilea.
Hotels, fincas and villas in the valley, with dates and prices on Booking.com. Distances are from the village centre.
At the foot of Galatzó, with an infinity pool, hot tub and big mountain views.
Spacious apartments with a pool in the valley, looking onto the Tramuntana.
A restored country manor just above the village.
A nature retreat in the hills with a hot tub, run by a private host.
Rooms with a shared kitchen, pool and garden, and mountain views.
A villa near the village with a private pool and garden.
A villa with a private pool and garden.
A house with a private pool and parking.
A house with a private pool and garden.
A villa with private parking in the valley.
A house with a private pool and parking.
A country finca with a pool and wide views.
Houses and fincas in Puigpunyent and the next villages along. We have not stayed in these yet; when we do, we will write about it.
A house in the mountains under 1 km from the village, with a natural saltwater pool, big views and fast fibre wifi for working away.
A large house in the Tramuntana with sea views, made for families and groups who want nature and quiet.
A small, bright refurbished apartment in the village with a garden, a terrace and a shared pool. Shops and restaurants on foot.
A stone cottage in Puigpunyent with a pool, a lawn and the mountains all around.
A 6-hectare finca in the hills towards Estellencs with sea and mountain views and a pool. Not for parties.
A renovated fishermen's house on the sea below Banyalbufar, with its own Malvasia vines and a path down to the water.
A finca above the coast with a hot tub, a pool and sea views.
A stone house with a pool looking over the hills to the Bay of Palma.
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Things to do
The shortest way up is from Puigpunyent. A real mountain day with views to Palma and the coast. The peak sits where Puigpunyent, Calvià and Estellencs meet.
2.5 million m² at the foot of Galatzó: a 3.5 km trail past springs and waterfalls, rescued wildlife, zip lines and a Tibetan bridge. Seasonal hours, check before going.
A loop on the camí Vell toward Estellencs, past Sa Campaneta, the hermitage of Sant Onofre and the Son Forteza estate.
A classic road ride from the capital into the valley, then on through the southwest Tramuntana. Watch the bends.
Around Plaça de l'Església: fruit, cheese, olives, cured meats and bread. Small, local and best early.
On the Calvià side of the mountain: oil mill, chapel, botanical garden and routes from 30 minutes to a full day.
Serral de ses Abelles, where the Bronze Age sword was found, and Casa del Gegant, the most monumental talaiot in the municipality, about 1 km apart near Son Serralta.
The church square in Sa Vila, the 19th-century Pou Nou by the town hall, Guillem Forteza's 1929 school and the carob tree where farm workers changed into their good shoes for mass.
Beyond the valley
Puigpunyent has no beach, but the coast and some of the west's best day trips are close.
A tiny fishing cove at the bottom of a steep, twisting road, with a restaurant right at the water.
Terraced hillsides dropping to the sea and a small rocky cove: with Port des Canonge, the nearest swim to the valley.
The ruins of a monastery Trappist monks founded in 1810, high above the sea near Sant Elm, now cared for by the conservation group GOB.
A short seasonal boat ride from Sant Elm to the nature-reserve island off the west tip, with lighthouse walks and lizards everywhere.
Watch the valley
Short films of the village, Galilea and the mountain by visitors and local walkers.
A stroll through the village centre on a June morning.
The hilltop village above Puigpunyent and its views to the sea.
The nature park trail, waterfalls and forest at the foot of Galatzó.
A tour of the village streets and the drive through the valley, in German.
The hilltop village filmed in ultra HD.
A hiker's vlog of the climb to the 1,027 m summit.
The legend of Galatzó
Mallorca's best-known ghost belongs to this mountain. The Comte Mal, the "evil count", was a real man: Ramon Burguès-Zaforteza, 17th-century Count of Santa Maria de Formiguera, whose estates included Galatzó. His violent attempts to enforce feudal rights over the people of Santa Margalida turned him into legend.
Folk tradition says his damned soul rides the Galatzó estate on a black horse wreathed in flame. Some tellings give the horse a green coat that reeks of sulphur, and place the sightings on cold November nights when the wind and distant dogs howl.
Another version, collected by students of the University of the Balearic Islands, tells of a stolen bride, a heart buried in a stone, and a count who still circles Galatzó looking for her. Put your hand on the stone, they say, and you can feel it beat.
The mountain keeps other stories too: Muslims who hid here after the Christian conquest, snakes that gather on its north face in winter, and the claim that Galatzó is the most magnetic mountain in Europe.
Every Tramuntana village has a story. Ours rides a burning horse.
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Village news
The latest from the town hall and the local press, checked and summarised.
Work began on 28 September on the urban stretch of the Galilea road: new sewer and drinking water networks, fresh paving and better pavements. Budget €467,409.57, funded by the Consell de Mallorca, for up to five months.
Source: Ajuntament de PuigpunyentThe Balearic energy transition office (OTEIB) holds a free advice session in the town hall plenary room from 9:00 to 14:00, for anyone thinking about solar, insulation or saving energy at home.
Source: Ajuntament de PuigpunyentPuigpunyent is one of 11 Tramuntana towns sharing €5.58 million from the tourist tax for water works. Its share pays for a 240 m³ tank in Galilea and a new well at Sa Mola Gran.
Source: Mallorca.comIdealista's ranking of Spain's priciest listings puts a Puigpunyent country house at number five, at €29.5 million, behind homes in Marbella, Pollença, Palma and Benahavís.
Source: Majorca Daily BulletinThe town hall surveyed residents and shops about local and organic produce. Ideas on the table include a "Producto local Puigpunyent" seal and a weekly Km 0 stall at the market.
Source: Última HoraThe town hall has bought the Mola of Galilea, almost 300,000 m² of hillside with the snow house, springs and a 506 m lookout, now crossed by a marked circular walk.
Source: Ara BalearsStories of the valley
The tales locals tell, and the ones the archaeologists keep adding to.
Guillem Rosselló Bordoy excavated the Bronze Age talaiot of Serral de ses Abelles in 1950. Almost seventy years later, in 2019, researchers Jaume Deyà and Pablo Galera identified a sword from the site, made around 3,200 years ago at the end of the Talaiotic era. It now hangs in the Museu de Mallorca in Palma.
The main altar in Puigpunyent's parish church of the Assumpció did not start life here. It first stood in Palma Cathedral before it was brought up the valley to the village.
The hamlet above Puigpunyent took its name from its resemblance to Galilee. Around 300 people live there today, around a church begun in 1806 and a terrace that looks out over the southwest slopes to the sea.
Before refrigerators, winter snow was packed into stone ice houses in the mountains. Galilea's Casa de Neu on Carrer de Sa Mola Gran stored ice until 1917, and it is the only snow house in Mallorca that sits inside a village centre.
Springs and channels laid out under Islamic rule still feed the valley. At Son Nét they once turned several grain mills and a paper mill, long before the estate became one of the island's grandest hotels.
Galilea keeps the Molí d'en Martí, a 19th-century windmill thought to be older than its neighbour Can Soler, plus the 18th-century well of Pou des Rafal and a house known for its painted roof tiles.
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The hilltop village above Puigpunyent: church terrace, snow house, windmills and lunch with a view.
Visit Galilea LegendWho the evil count really was, every version of the tale, and the November night walk.
Read the legend Hiking & cyclingGalatzó, Coll des Grau, the Galilea trail and La Reserva, with distances, times and start points.
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Getting here
Take the Ma-1041 west out of Palma through Establiments and up into the valley. TIB bus 201 runs the same road to Galilea every day. On market Sundays and fiesta days, leave the car at the edge of the village and walk in.
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Questions
Puigpunyent is a village and municipality in south-west Mallorca, in the foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape. It is about 20 km from Palma by the Ma-1041, roughly half an hour by car, and about 31 km from Palma airport.
Say it pootch-poon-YENT. In Castilian Spanish the name is written Puigpuñent.
The municipality had 2,049 residents on 1 January 2025. It includes the main village plus Galilea and Son Serralta.
No. Puigpunyent is an inland mountain village. The nearest coast is a drive away on the south-west or north-west of the island.
Yes. TIB line 201 runs every day between Galilea, Puigpunyent and Palma.
Every Sunday from 9:00, around Plaça de l'Església in the village centre.
From the Font des Pi car park the summit is 4.1 km there and back, about 2 hours 30 minutes with 500 m of climb and a short rocky final section. The full loop from the village is a strenuous full day.
The Comte Mal, the evil count, was a 17th-century nobleman who owned the Galatzó estate. Folk tradition says his soul rides the mountain on a burning horse, especially on cold November nights.
In October 2026 Idealista listed 74 homes for sale in Puigpunyent worth €145 million in total, 40 of them over €1 million. The most expensive, a €29.5 million country house, ranked fifth in Spain.
Yes, as a deep partial eclipse. On 2 August 2027 the Moon will cover about 90% of the Sun over Mallorca in the late morning. Totality falls across southern Spain.
Expect roughly €40 to €50 for the 30-minute drive from the airport. From central Palma the ride takes about 25 minutes. TIB bus 201 is the cheaper option from the city.
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