Jardines de Alfàbia, Historic garden in Bunyola, Spain.

Jardines de Alfàbia is a historic garden in Bunyola with a long avenue of tall plane trees leading to a central patio typical of Mallorcan manor houses. The grounds include multiple garden sections surrounding the old house, featuring various plant types and water features throughout.

After James I conquered the Balearic Islands, he gave the estate to his uncle Nuño de Rosellón, who sold it to the Ben-Abet family; it later passed to the Zaforteza family, its present owners. The family house dates from the 15th century, a rear wing was added in the 17th, and the Baroque facade is 18th-century. A 19th-century landscape garden with a lily pond was added later.

The gardens are a son, a Mallorcan garden type of Hispano-Arab origin, once terraced Muslim-era farmland growing citrus and fruit trees. After the 13th-century conquest the estate passed to Nuño de Rosellón and then to the Ben-Abet family, and later to the Zaforteza family, its present owners. In the courtyard stands a fountain with a sculpture of a child and a fish.

The gardens open every day of the year except 25 December and 1 January, with opening hours that change with the season, so check them before setting out. The entrance is at kilometre 17 of the Palma to Sóller road in Bunyola. The grounds slope and are explored on foot, and a café stands on site.

The gardens hold the only Mallorcan population of the southern tree frog, which has disappeared from the rest of the island for unknown reasons. The 19th-century landscape garden added at the back, with its lily pond ringed by palms and bamboo, is where this small frog survives.