Jardines del Triunfo
Marble column honoring a seventeenth-century civic oath, ringed by lamplit gardens on the site of a razed bullring.
This guide to the Jardines del Triunfo in Granada opens on the second of September, 1618, when councilmen and cathedral canons knelt together to swear a public oath about Mary's Immaculate Conception, a doctrine that split the Catholic world at the time. It follows Granada's civic embrace of that belief into stone, the sculptor Alonso de Mena and architect Francisco de Potes raising a column near the old Elvira gate, and a legend of soldiers on a flooded battlefield near Empel. Look up at the column and the twenty-five lamps once said to ring it, and picture the oath sworn beneath a September sky.
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