Murillo Gardens
Shaded former royal orchard garden with tiled fountains, orange trees, and a bronze legend at its gate.
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This guide to Murillo Gardens in Seville opens at the bronze statue of a swaggering seventeenth-century seducer by the gate, and asks whether Seville's own Miguel de Manara, a nobleman notorious for duels and ruined marriages, was really the model for Don Juan Tenorio. It follows the timeline problems historians have found in that legend, and the night in 1661 when something in Manara's life changed for good. He was born in this city in 1627, decades before the play that supposedly immortalized him.
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