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Parc del Laberint d'Horta
Neoclassical hedge maze of clipped cypress leading to a statue of Eros, beside a romantic garden built around the theme of death.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parc del Laberint d'Horta in Barcelona traces a dare a Catalan nobleman, Joan Antoni Desvalls, built into his garden in 1791: walk seven hundred fifty meters of clipped cypress hedges to a marble Cupid at the center, laid out by Italian architect Domenico Bagutti after the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. You'll hear how his descendants later added a second, wilder garden on the upper terrace, built around loss instead of love, with a symbolic cemetery of empty graves. The estate stayed mostly private, visited even by a king, until money ran out in 1967.
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