You're Invited
Sybil turns Fifty
Mallorca · Summer 2026
June 27 — July 2
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You're Invited
Mallorca · Summer 2026
June 27 — July 2
“The thing with Mallorca is that you arrive planning to stay a week, and then you never quite leave.”Every visitor, eventually
The Island
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands — dramatic limestone mountains, hidden coves with crystalline water, ancient olive groves, and a history stretching back thousands of years. Scroll down for the itinerary, fun facts about Mallorca, and ideas for reading, watching and shopping.
The Week
Seven days of sun, food, adventure, and celebration.
For concierge transportation to/from the villa, email flight details to guests@mallorcacollection.com. Otherwise, grab an Uber or rent a car.
The Villa address is: 76 Diseminado Polígono 2, 07320 Santa María del Camí, Islas Baleares, Spain. For those of you staying in the Villa, the villa can be pre-stocked with items for a fee. Sybil will share the order form closer to arrival.
Settle in and let the celebration begin
Explore our local town, then dance the evening away
The Serra de Tramuntana by day, dressed up in Palma by night
Dragon Caves, beachside lunch, evening at your leisure
Northern beaches, beach club, open evening
Catamaran, sunshine, farewell in Palma
What’s Included:
What to Bring:
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Say goodbye to Mallorca — until next time
The Birthday Girl & Her Boy
The two people at the heart of this Mallorcan adventure.
Sybil is turning the fabulous fifty and celebrating in the most Sybil way possible — with sunshine, incredible food, the people she loves most, and a Mediterranean island that matches her vibrant energy.
A woman who knows the best restaurants before they're on anyone's radar, who can find a hidden boutique in any city, and who brings people together like no one else. This week is all about celebrating her.
Here's to 50 years of Sybil and many, many more.
Charlie is Sybil's wonderful son and her partner-in-crime for this Mallorcan adventure. He'll be joining in the fun all week — from market mornings to beach days.
Some of his school friends' families will be joining for parts of the trip, so he'll have plenty of company for beach adventures and exploring.
Charlie, you're going to have the best time in Mallorca.
“I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”Tom Ripley — who would have loved Mallorca
Eat & Drink
Sun-drenched produce, centuries-old recipes, and ingredients you'll want to bring home.
Mallorca's most famous pastry — a light, flaky spiral made with lard. Plain or filled with cream, chocolate, or sweet pumpkin. Nearly 300 years old at Forn Fondo. The island's top souvenir.
Rustic bread rubbed with garlic and ripe tomatoes, drizzled with island olive oil. Topped with Serrano ham, local cheese, or olives. Simple and perfect.
Spreadable cured sausage from Porc Negre (indigenous black pig) with paprika, salt, and spices. Spread on warm bread or stir into rice. Rich, smoky, uniquely Mallorcan. Bring some home.
Layered fried aubergines, potatoes, and red peppers in rich tomato sauce. Mallorca's answer to ratatouille, dating to the 16th century.
"Dirty rice" — soupy caldoso-style rice with seasonal meat, vegetables, saffron. The broth absorbs everything.
Lobster stew in earthenware with sofrito, served with toasted bread for dipping. Order it at any good coastal restaurant.
Dense, moist almond cake with almond ice cream. Almonds are one of the island's traditional crops.
Soft potato pastry with powdered sugar, unique to Valldemossa. On Monday, stop at Ca'n Molinas (since 1920) and pair with a granissat d'ametlla and hot chocolate.
Handcrafted from Ses Salines at Es Trenc. Pure or infused with black olives, hibiscus, or herbs. Beautiful packaging.
Native reds Manto Negro and Callet, white Prensal Blanc. Several wineries near our villa offer tastings.
Potent digestif of anise with fennel, rosemary, chamomile, citrus. Originated in 16th-century pharmacies. Over ice after dinner.
Extra virgin from the Tramuntana. Fruity, bitter, peppery. Available everywhere — the good stuff is worth bringing home.
Read & Watch
Mallorca has captivated writers, filmmakers, and artists for centuries. Some context for the trip.
The French author spent winter 1838–39 at the Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa with Chopin. Her memoir is the most famous book written about Mallorca. We'll visit on Monday.
The renowned poet and novelist spent much of his life in Deià, drawing an entire literary circle to the village. His home is now a museum.
Ballard's provocative thriller exposes the dark underbelly beneath a Mediterranean resort community's glossy surface. Set on the Spanish coast, it strips away the veneer of luxury living to reveal obsession and moral decay — a sharp, intelligent counterpoint to sun-and-sand fantasies.
A Scottish family's charming, humorous adventures in rural Mallorca — local customs, language barriers, and orange farming. Light pre-trip reading.
A British detective comedy-drama following a mismatched pair of investigators solving crimes across Mallorca's picturesque landscapes. Captures both the island's sun-soaked beauty and its quirky expat community. Pure escapism wrapped in genuine intrigue.
Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in a sleek espionage thriller partly filmed in Mallorca. The show's luxury villas and glittering coastline perfectly embody the exclusive world of international intrigue and jet-set glamour. Many of its most iconic scenes were shot right here on the island.
Miró moved to Palma in 1956, seeking the island's light. His studio and spaces are open to the public.
Built into ancient city walls. Picasso, Barceló, Miró, and a sculpture garden with Mediterranean views.
Composed his most famous Preludes here. One of his original pianos is in the monastery.
Palma's oldest gallery (1969), in a 17th-century villa on Can Verí street.
Interactive sports museum in Manacor celebrating the island's greatest athlete. Simulators, trophies, memorabilia — plus a rooftop with views of his academy.
UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape. Millennia of dry-stone terracing, ancient irrigation channels, and mountain villages shaped by centuries of human ingenuity.
People
A small island, outsized in names. A philosopher who invented combinatorial logic, a friar who founded California, a tennis player from Manacor, and a painter who made the island his second studio.
Mallorca’s first great mind. A medieval polymath who developed an early system of logic and combinatorics that would influence Leibniz four centuries later. He wrote in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic and is buried in Palma’s Basilica of Sant Francesc.
Born in Petra. Sailed to the New World, walked north from Mexico, and founded the chain of California missions — San Diego, San Carlos, San Juan Capistrano — that became the backbone of the state. Canonised in 2015.
Catalan by birth and Mallorcan by adoption. Miró kept his great studio in Palma from 1956 onward, and the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation is still one of the loveliest art houses in Europe.
Honorary Mallorquín. Settled in Deià in 1929, wrote I, Claudius and The White Goddess there, and is buried in the village cemetery. His house, Ca n’Alluny, is now a museum.
Born in Felanitx and arguably Spain’s most important living artist. He painted the chapel ceiling of Palma Cathedral in clay and ceramic between 2001 and 2007. It is unmissable.
Of Manacor. Twenty-two Grand Slam titles, fourteen French Opens, an Olympic gold. The Rafa Nadal Academy sits just east of Palma.
Explore
Every restaurant, beach, town, and landmark — all in one place.
Shop
Mallorca’s best shopping is small, local, made-on-the-island. Bespoke shoes from a four-generation atelier, pearls from Manacor, hand-blown glass from a 1719 furnace.
The bespoke Mallorcan shoemaker, founded in 1866 and still a family business. Handmade Goodyear-welted shoes — loafers, oxfords, monks, the famous shell-cordovan. If you buy one souvenir on this island, buy a pair of Carmina shoes.
The Mallorcan concept store, full stop. A Swedish-owned, three-storey palazzo of fashion, homewares, art, books, flowers, and a perfect light lunch in the courtyard.
Homewares, fashion, and a boho garden café right next door. A required stop on any drive between Santanyí and Es Trenc.
One of Palma’s most discreet boutiques — quiet, serious, the kind of beautiful linen things one wishes existed in larger quantities.
A jewel-box of contemporary jewellery and accessories from local Spanish makers.
Founded in Inca in 1975 and still made there. The Avinguda Jaume III flagship in Palma stocks the full archive.
Hand-stitched espadrilles in a hundred fabrics. A Catalan-Mallorcan family business.
Hand-blown glass in continuous production since 1719. Tour the furnace, walk the museum, leave with a green decanter.
The island’s pearl industry, born of late-nineteenth-century French innovation. Manacor is the home factory.
The last great producer of the Mallorcan roba de llengües — the watercolour-blurred ikat fabric. Tour the loom-room; buy by the metre.
Hand-harvested salt from Es Trenc, blended with island herbs. The black olive, the rosemary, the hibiscus rose — beautifully packaged and almost weightless to take home.
“Made in Sóller.” Olive oil, orange marmalade, almond turrón. The honest version of an island-edible souvenir.
Mid-century furniture and lighting, beautifully restored.
Modern jewellery from a local atelier — the island’s quietly favoured maker for an everyday gold piece.
Hand-thrown Mallorcan stoneware in the dove-grey-and-cream palette of the village itself. A small studio; ring the bell.
Specialty teas, beautifully boxed, a few blends made in-house. The right thing to bring home for a hostess.
An art nouveau house turned art museum, with a small and well-stocked museum shop.
The grand food market — jamón counters, cheese, fish, oysters, an upstairs bar for cava. Go before lunch.
The villa’s home market. Sunday-morning produce, almond cakes, flowers, a coffee in the square.
Mallorca’s oldest market — livestock, antiques, leather, produce.
Art galleries open onto the square, ceramics, fabric, a long lunch afterwards.
Essentials
Numbers, phrases, just in case. Two pages of a well-prepared guest’s notebook.
Castilian; Catalan is also widely spoken
Hola / Buenos días — Hello / Good morning
Buenas tardes / noches — Good afternoon / evening
Por favor / Gracias — Please / Thank you
De nada — You’re welcome
Perdón / Disculpe — Sorry / Excuse me
¿Habla inglés? — Do you speak English?
La cuenta, por favor — The bill, please
Una mesa para dos — A table for two
Un café con leche — A coffee with milk
Una caña, por favor — A small draught beer
Una copa de vino tinto / blanco — A glass of red / white wine
¡Salud! — Cheers!
¡Está delicioso! — It’s delicious!
¿Cuánto cuesta? — How much is it?
¿Dónde está el baño? — Where is the bathroom?
Soy alérgico/a a… — I’m allergic to…
Necesito ayuda — I need help
¡Llame a una ambulancia! — Call an ambulance!
¿Dónde está la farmacia? — Where is the pharmacy?
Remember
A drop-box for the years — old photographs of Sybil from anyone who has them, and, when the trip is over, the new ones from Mallorca. Pour them in. We are making a book.
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