Bienvenidos a los Jardines de Alfabia

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Alfàbia is a complex consisting of a house, gardens and an orchard located in Bunyola right in the heart of the Tramuntana mountain range. This complex appears in literature which dates from the arab era of Mallorca.

The houses of a Gothic type, with a strong rural and fortified character were located around an enclosed courtyard, incorporating a tower of the sixteenth century. The eighteenth-century reform endowed Alfabia with its Baroque elements, the most defining of its current configuration. This reform involved a substantial extension of the original houses, providing them with a new layout and decoration but keeping the house rural concept. In the second half of the nineteenth century, there were important changes that modified some of the earlier reforms.

Antonio Flores, the chronicler of Queen Elizabeth II — who visited Alfàbia in 1860— said about the estate in his book Crónica del viaje de Sus Majestades y Altezas Reales a las Islas Baleares Cataluña y Aragón (Chronicle of the Journey of Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses to the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Aragon):

“The entrance to the Alfàbia estate is sumptuous, but the exit on the other side is wonderful. Entering the house, which is regular sized, crossing its main rooms which run along and look out over the gallery that extends around the grounds, means being absorbed and suspended between the most varied and beautiful scenery that the human imagination could dream up. Despite the fact that the picturesque mountains in Alfàbia are glimpsed before reaching the estate, it is nonetheless surprising that such beautiful, whimsical nature is concealed at the rear of that building. It seems that nature and art are works from the same hand. One never knows where the garden ends and the mountain begins; both seem to be one and the same.”

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