The monumental Torre-saura palace gives travellers a sense of the high social standing of the family that commissioned and inhabited it. Covering an area of approximately 6,000 m2 and flanked by extensive neoclassical façades that open onto Major des Born Street and Es Born Square, it was designed in its current form in the 19th century. The result of successive renovations; the plans are the work of Ramón Gelabert and military engineer Ildefonso Hernández. The architectural style of the building, clearly contextualized in essence to Mallorcan’ peculiarities, presents in its conception strong reminiscences of Italian and French architecture.

The façade on Major des Born Street, with its sober balance and great symmetry, houses the main door of the palace, framed between two Ionic columns and crowned by the famous veiled face, whose meaning has given rise to various legends and speculations. The most widespread refers to an unfounded animosity towards the opposite house, although it is certainly a romantic symbol of welcoming or hospitality without “looking” judging, or considering the visitor's status or origin. The façade on Es Born Square consists of two large Italian-inspired loggias with semicircular arches between pilasters with composite capitals, located at both ends of the façade, and a central doorway topped with the count's coat of arms. The building is crowned with twelve hydria vases decorated with flowers located above the loggias and two distinguished busts on the balustrade that encloses the upper terrace, on both sides of the carriage entrance.
The count's coat of arms contains the surnames Olives —represented by an armed arm holding an olive branch—, Quart and Riudavets and it is inscribed with the biblical Latin phrase "Olibas habebis in omnibus terminis tuis" (you will have olive trees in all your territories). On either side of the coat of arms are winged chimeras with the head and half-body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. Two imposing figures of Atlanteans guard the entrance, above which is carved a lion's head with a ring in its mouth as an apotropaic element to ward off evil.