Jardines de Puerta Oscura
Terraced hillside garden with pools and stone stairways, built into a fortress wall by forced labor.
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This guide to the Jardines de Puerta Oscura in Málaga reveals how a postcard-pretty garden was actually built: between 1937 and 1939, two hundred Republican prisoners of the Spanish Civil War carved these terraces into the hillside below the Alcazaba as forced labor, told the work might shave time off their sentences. You'll hear how architect Fernando Guerrero-Strachan blended Islamic-style terracing with European landscape ideas while the prisoners moved rock and rubble by hand. Look closely at the fountain near you, pieced together from salvaged fragments rather than carved fresh.
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