SUN AND SHADOW

"THERE ARE FEW CULTURES THAT DO NOT HAVE LABYRINTHINE ICONOGRAPHY. Apart from this, the Mother Nature offers at first sight forms and adorns that are in perfectly accordance with the sense that anyone intuits before an elaborated and conventional figure ", affirms Miguel Rivera Dorado in his book “Laberintos de la Antigüedad” (Antiquity Labyrinths). At the North side of la Quinta, going to the pool and to the vantage point, the steep slope was useful to build, in the best labyrinths tradition, hard ways for losing and finding. In this place the cardinal points disappeared and the mysterious chiaroscuro becomes a flirting accomplice and the water rumor is the only witness of the conversations where is expressed, on the best way, the native spontaneity.

Among the investigation works made during the restoration of the building as well as the gardens, a document of 1828 said that (...) “to the high bath and to the viewpoint (...) it led a narrow footpath that was steep and tortuous, formed by dense rosebush, violets, curubos, bindweeds and many parasitic plants and there hardly ever the sun shined".

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