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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Mar. 16, 2014: Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca

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A quiet corner in the Jardin Borda, a large series of gardens near the Cathedral in Cuernavaca. The gardens were started by an 18th-century mining family, and extended by an heir with a bent for botany. By the 1860s, the house and gardens had become a summer residence for the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian. Today, they are open to the public and offer a wide range of exhibits and quiet places to relax.

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Not surprising in a way...

 

One of our gleanings on our recent trip to Andalucia is that for the first two centuries of Spanish rule in the Americas, most of the Spanish immigrants came from the south, where Seville had a monopoly on trade with the "New World."

 

That certainly accounts for a number of aspects of Latin American Spanish (s rather than Castilian th, etc.) and probably for the persistence of architectural attitudes and details that survived the fall of Moorish power for a long time...even to today!

The best part of every trip is realizing that it has upset your expectations

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