10/22/2026
Robert Graves came to Deià in 1929 on the advice of Gertrude Stein, which has to be one of the better travel tips on record. He'd just written Goodbye to All That, his book about the First World War, and had decided not to go back to England.
In 1932 he built a house at the edge of the village among the olive groves and called it Ca n'Alluny, roughly "the distant house." He didn't use an architect. The rooms are small, the study looks as if he's just stepped out for his daily swim, and an old Albion hand press still stands in the corner. He lived and wrote here until he died in 1985.
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