Despite this nature of a private residence, the Marivent Palace has served, on many occasions, as a setting for the receptions and interviews that the monarch offers both the prime minister of Spain and other international authorities.

The property was designed by the architect Guillem Forteza Pinya between 1923 and 1925, commissioned by the painter Juan de Saridakis, who lived there until his death.

[2] His widow, Anunciación Marconi Taffani, gave the building and its land to the Balearic Provincial Council in 1966, on condition that a museum be created bearing the name of the painter, and that it remained open to the public.

These conditions were met until 1973 when the Provincial Council ceded the estate to the then Princes of Spain (Juan Carlos and Sofía), a fact that caused the descendants of Saridakis to sue the provincial authorities to the courts for non-compliance with the conditions of transfer, and to recover the movable property of the interior of the palace belonging to his family.

[3] However, sources of the autonomous government in the 1980s, on which the palace depended, declared that "We are relatively little concerned that these goods are taken, since they have little value", forty million pesetas not the three billion that the heirs of painter Juan de Saridakis claimed.