JARDINES DE ALFABIA

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Alfàbia is a set of house, garden and orchard located in Bunyola, in the midst of the Sierra de Tramuntana. The history of the house and gardens and is documented in a time of Arab domination.

Initially the houses of Gothic type, with a strong rural character and fortified structured around an enclosed courtyard, incorporating a tower in the sixteenth century. The great eighteenth-century reform Alfàbia endowed its baroque elements, the most defining 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 concept. In the second half of the nineteenth century there was an important new intervention that modified some of the earlier reforms.