Carmen de los Mártires
Hillside garden estate of romantic lakes, hedge labyrinths and peacocks below a former convent site.
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This guide to the Carmen de los Martires in Granada opens on an 1891 evening when a swan boat glided across a brand-new lake built to restage a scene from Wagner's Lohengrin. It follows Hubert Meersmans, the Belgian mining entrepreneur who bought this former Carmelite convent, once home to Saint John of the Cross, and poured his fortune into its portals, fountains, hedge labyrinth and peacocks. Among the guests at his parties were the artists Manuel de Falla and Federico Garcia Lorca, drinking and talking under trees his money had planted.
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