You would never ever have changed the location of Villa Salvadora. From any room, with Ernestina, you could gaze at the soft outlines of the last elevations of the mountains of Llevant or the coast of migjorn as far as the vicinity of cape Elies, and the silhouette of the archipelago of Cabrera. Not even the villa owned by the late marquis of Comillas, designed by the Catalan architect Josep Antoni Coderch I Sentmenat, had this stunning view.

L´illa dels dolmens (The dolmens island), 2007

Translated by Núria Cohen.

(Santanyí, 1945). Antoni Vidal Ferrando is a poet, narrator and teacher. He started his career under the influence of Bernat Vidal i Tomàs and the poet Blai Bonet, both from Santanyí and whom he met in the sixties. He is the author of poetry books such as Cartes a Lady Hamilton (1990), Calvari (1992) or Cap de cantó (2004). His novels include L´illa dels dolmens (2007), for which he was awarded the Serra d´Or Critics Prize, and is part of a trilogy on Mallorca in the twentieth century that starts with Les llunes i els calàpets (1994) and La mà del jardiner (1999). He is also the author of works on the history of Mallorca and the municipality of Santanyí.