The Road to San Vicente is a book by Leif Borthen[1] about life in the tiny village of Sant Vicent de sa Cala in the far north east of the Spanish island of Ibiza.

The story begins with Borthen’s arrival in 1933 and also on his return to the village in 1960,[1] just before a road was completed into the valley.

Characters that include a notorious assassin,[2] a roguish art dealer and eccentric aristocrat.

The story leads the reader in to a world of rich Island traditions with house blessings, blood feuds and a fast vanishing rural way of life that would, and has, disappeared for good following the road construction in 1963.

The last part of the book includes six additional text which are written by other authors who have recollections, researched or lived in the valley of Sant Vicent de sa Cala.