Author : Anne Elise Urrutia
Release : 2022-04-07
Genre : History
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Miraflores - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miraflores write by Anne Elise Urrutia. This book was released on 2022-04-07. Miraflores available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after immigrating to Texas during the Mexican Revolution. A man of science, he valued nature, art, literature, history, and community. The garden, whose name roughly translates to “behold the flowers,” was built primarily from 1921 to 1945. Its plants, architecture, sculpture, and artisanship formed a cultural landscape reflecting Urrutia’s love for and memory of his homeland. Though recent decades have rendered much of the garden decayed and barely recognizable, it is now part of San Antonio’s historic Brackenridge Park. Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory recounts the garden’s history and celebrates the importance of the cultural, historical, and artistic meaning of a place.