Errukiaren Parkea
Romantic-style garden of century-old trees and rare species surrounding a nineteenth-century charitable residence.
This guide to Errukiaren Parkea in Bilbao opens with the legend of Saint Mames, a Galatian martyr thrown to a lion that lay down instead, and traces how a convent on this site kept his relic before lending its name to nearby San Mames stadium. It follows the ground's turn as an eighteenth-century house of mercy for Bilbao's poor, expanded in 1872 when King Amadeo the First came to open the grand neoclassical building still standing here. You'll hear how the charity nearly collapsed around 1800, when the mayor personally walked the streets asking for coins to keep it open. Wander the garden's century-old magnolias and sequoias as you listen.
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