Can Vivot has belonged to the Vilalonga family for six centuries, which in itself says something about stability in a city that has changed hands several times. The house dates to the fourteenth century, though its elegant Baroque courtyard reflects eighteenth-century renovations, and it remains private today.

The patio is the point. Slender columns, a noble staircase, a well at the centre. These courtyards were never purely private spaces: the doors stayed open so anyone could draw water from the well, neighbours gathered on market days, and the family announced births by hanging laurel on the door for a boy or myrtle for a girl. When someone died, the doors were left slightly ajar.

The house carries quieter histories too. Families in this neighbourhood sheltered converted Jews persecuted by the Inquisition, and Can Vivot was no exception.

VoiceMap's tours use Can Vivot to open up the social world of Palma's noble patios, connecting their everyday rhythms to the city's deeper history of faith, fear and community life.