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The Son Coll GTRES polo tournament

Christian Völkers has been organizing a tournament at his Mallorca estate for years. The plan became so massive that "one of the roads collapsed."

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The most exclusive calls do not understand photocall . In fact, they are the ones who get the most elusive characters to come, difficult to photograph in other places. The summer party that gets your guests relaxed is organized by Christian Völkers every year in Son Coll, the municipality of northern Mallorca where the owner of the luxury real estate Engels & Völkers has a 15-hectare estate on which he built a regulation polo track and stables where to raise their horses. In that paradise with views of the Mediterranean, the businessman has organized a polo tournament for ten years, followed by a party that brings together royalty, aristocracy, businessmen and influential characters from Mallorca .

In this decade, the way of operating has always been the same: Christian set a day and his guests, dressed in white, enjoyed a polo tournament and later dinner, based on Argentine barbecue . The party was private but, to make visible its real estate, every year a press release was issued with photos included. For the cameras of the real estate company, the very discreet friend of Don Juan Carlos poses to Marta Gayá, who is one of the best known people in Mallorca. They also attend the appointment of Christian Simoneta Gómez-Acebo , Cristina Macaya, Alfonso Cortina with Myriam Lapique or Laura Ponte. There is no lack of Diandra Douglas, ex-wife of the protagonist of Fatal Attraction , with whom she shares a house on the island that coincidentally sells the real estate.

YOUR WOMAN, HOST

The objective, in addition to advertising the real estate, is to raise money for the foundation of the company , which since 2008 captain Ninon Völkers, the second wife of the businessman. With the excuse of spending a good polo afternoon, the guests empty their pockets in the street market that the family installs on the farm and in the process they help an organization that builds schools and orphanages in Togo (Africa) . "Ninon is a great hostess," they say. Very close to the farm, but never invited to the event, usually rest a few days Plácido Arango jr. and his wife, Ana María van Pallandt , first wife of Christian Völkers.

From left to right: Cristina Macaya, Ninon Völkers and Marta Gayá Santiago Stankovic

María de León Castillejo, journalist and aristocrat, has attended the party for several years. "It's a fantastic party. I've always had a great time," he recalls in conversation with LOC. The feeling most described by other guests asked by this means is "relaxed" in which "people of all kinds" are mixed. In addition to Spanish, the public that predominates the most is the German, who travels to Mallorca attracted by the good temperatures and the price , so different from that of his country.

"This year the party will be much more private , with fewer guests. Friends and family will come," said LOC responsible for the communication department of the firm. According to them, "it will not lose the solidarity hue but they want it to be something smaller and more exclusive, " they reveal. Last year 700 people attended, including guests and employees of the real estate.

COLAPSED ROAD

One of the guests of the years in which the plan was massive believes that the reason for reducing it is that it ended up falling apart . "The farm is reached by a narrow unpaved road. As many guests go in private vehicles, that year a road collapsed. Finally they solved it by putting a tractor that took people inside the farm, " he reveals. That was one of the reasons that led to the cancellation of the mass plan. The same source believes that another reason to close the party again is that "in the end they ended up inviting the press to publicize the event and the NGO and many guests were not so comfortable ", reveals this person, who has gone several years .

In the center Christian Völkers, the host and to the left his wife Ninon Völkers, together with friends

Dinner is usually served in different tents where guests are located according to affinities and interests . After the agape, a party continues with dancing that continues until dawn, when the guests return to their homes, located in different parts of the island, along the unpaved road through which they entered . "This is not a unique dinner -the same source continues-, Mallorca is full of essential events such as the Macaya party or the dinner that Leonor March gave at home this week," he reveals. After receiving at Son Coll, the Völkers have many more plans in Mallorca .

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