Jardines de Catalina de Ribera
Quiet garden of hedged walkways, tiled fountains and orange trees, named for a Renaissance-era noblewoman.
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This guide to the Jardines de Catalina de Ribera in Seville follows the shrewd widow the garden is named for, who bought scrubby land outside the city walls in 1483 and turned it into a fortune. You'll hear how she built on her husband's business and her own soap trade, bought up palaces, and then set her sights on a project no one else would fund. It traces her path from businesswoman to the founder of a hospital that still stands elsewhere in the city today, and how Seville came to name this promenade after her centuries later.
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