Jardín Botánico - Histórico La Concepción
Exotic tree collection and Roman antiquities gathered on a nineteenth-century noble estate.
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This guide to the Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción in Málaga follows Amalia Heredia, daughter of the city's richest ironmaster, who married the businessman Jorge Loring in 1850 and turned their honeymoon tour of Europe's grand gardens into a private obsession. You'll hear how she and Jorge sent his merchant ships around the world for seeds and cuttings, hired the French gardener Jacinto Chamoussent to coax them onto this hillside, and gathered an equally obsessive collection of Roman stone, including a bronze tablet inscribed with the law that once governed the city. Walk among the palms and bamboo, and you're still standing inside her appetite.
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