Carmen de los Martires

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Entrance area of ​​the Carmen de los Martires

The Carmen de los Mártires is a Carmen (house with gardens) in Granada , in the immediate vicinity of the Alhambra ; it is one of the largest such facilities in the city. Inside the Carmen there is a representative building, a palm garden, a landscaped lake with a ruined island, a French garden, a historic kitchen garden and a lookout point that opens onto the city, the Vega behind it and the Sierra Nevada.

history

The place was named Campo de los Christianos Cautivos (Field of Captive Christians) after the Reyes Catolicos took over Granada in honor of the Christians who were captured or murdered there by the Moorish rulers ; Isabel la Catolica had a small hermitage, the Eremita de los Mártires , built here.

In the 16th century a convent of the Discalced Carmelites was built on the site ; San Juan de la Cruz , who was the prior of the convention, is said to have created part of his poetic work here; a former kitchen garden in the back of the garden is called Huerto de San Juan de la Cruz .

After the decline of the convent, General Carlos Manuel Calderón y Molina acquired the site in 1845, on which he had a residential palace and a themed garden built. In the following 100 years, the site was converted and expanded by different owners. In 1889, the poet José Zorrilla y Moral was appointed Spanish national poet here, as a plaque commemorates.

Although the complex was placed under monument protection in 1943, the construction of a hotel complex in Carmen de los Mártires was approved in the 1970s; the project was discontinued in 1976 after part of the gardens had already been removed. Since 1984 the palace and gardens have been slowly restored.

Web links

Commons : Carmen de los Mártires  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carmen de los Martires - Historia. Ayuntamiente de Granada, Retrieved June 4, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ El Carmen de los Martires. GranadaPorElMundo.com, accessed June 4, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Decreto de 27 de septiembre de 1943 por el que se declara Jardín Histórico el Carmen de los Mártires. Boletín Oficial del Estado, October 10, 1943, No. 283, p. 9807.
  4. ↑ El Carmen de los Martires (I); see gran Historia. Sombras de Tinta blog, accessed June 4, 2017 (Spanish).

Coordinates: 37 ° 10 '25.9 "  N , 3 ° 35' 20.1"  W.