Puigpunyent is a village of two thousand people in a valley on the wrong side of the Serra de Tramuntana — wrong, that is, if you came to Mallorca for the sea. It faces the Puig de Galatzó, sits twenty minutes from Palma, and has been quietly agricultural since the Bronze Age: a sword of roughly three thousand years old was dug out of a talaiot here and now sits in the Museu de Mallorca. Above the village, at the end of a long drive, stands Son Net — a possessió, the Mallorcan manor-estate type, whose palace house carries the date 1672.

Its modern history has two acts. In the early 1990s the hotelier David Stein bought the place derelict — by his own account the house was down to its bones — lived in it for nine years, and opened it as a hotel in 1998 with seventeen rooms. In 2023, after a restoration of two and a half years by Torras y Sierra Arquitectos under Ángel Verdú and the Madrid decorator Lorenzo Castillo, it reopened with thirty-one. Castillo, who also did Finca Cortesin, works in layers: heavy drapery, ornamental rugs, antique marble washbasins, period furniture set against seventeenth-century stone. The rustic beams, the carved ceilings, the courtyard, the spring-fed well and the family chapel are all original.

What lifts it above being a handsome house is that the grounds still work. Just under a hectare of Malvasia — the Banyalbufar grape — was planted in 2006 and has been bottled since 2007 as Son Net Selección Especial, poured only on the estate. There are organic vegetable and herb gardens, citrus and fruit orchards, century-old olive trees and the press they once served, and a small farm with animals. MAR&DUIX, the restaurant, occupies that old tafona under six-metre ceilings, the seventeenth-century press machinery still standing in the room. The executive chef Sergi Olmedo calls what he does “culinary archaeology” of the Balearics — cooking the local landscape rather than following the old recipes to the letter.

The spa arrived a year after the reopening, in 2024: a thousand square metres with five treatment rooms, a heated indoor pool treated with sea salt, a Japanese bath, hammam, sauna and ice fountain, and a gym facing the mountains. Outside there is a thirty-metre pool with shaded cabanas, a separate children's pool, and gardens running to some five and a half hectares. The range around it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2011 as a cultural landscape — for its terraces, dry-stone walls and water channels rather than its geology — and the walking paths toward Valldemossa, Deià and Sóller begin more or less at the gate. Palma airport is half an hour back down the hill.