Jardín de Las Hespérides
Walled mythological garden of bronze statues and fifty citrus varieties standing in for golden apples.
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This guide to the Jardin de Las Hesperides in Valencia starts with a discrepancy at the gate: the myth names three sisters guarding the garden, but only one stands here in bronze. It follows Hungarian sculptor Miklos Palfy, who settled in Spain from 1965 and was hired in the year 2000 to give the legend a body, and the choice he made to cast one nymph mid-transformation rather than the full trio. Along the way you will hear the older story behind her, of Hercules and his last labor, sent to steal golden apples from a tree guarded by a serpent. Take a slow loop through the fifty-odd citrus varieties planted here before you look for the rest of the sculptor's cast.
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