The beauty and history of the Rivadulla pazo, recognized on national television

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What are the most emblematic gardens in Spain? Where is the greatest landscape wealth housed? In his search there is a new television program of La 2, Gardens with history, carried out in collaboration with the Time Zone production company, which visits fifteen locations to publicize the jewels of national landscape architecture and botany. Along with the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, the Alhambra in Granada or the Granja de San Ildefonso de Segovia, the documentary series also dedicates a chapter to two Galician pazos, that of Oca (A Estrada) and that of Santa Cruz de Rivadulla (Vedra). In fact, they were the protagonists of its last installment, issued on Saturday. The architect and presenter of the television space Arturo Franco repairs, as soon as the part that corresponds to the one known as Ortigueira Farm, that there is something magical about it. Faced with the sensation of seriousness and sobriety of the de Oca, here you feel peace, it stands out from the inside of the walled estate. On the history of the property, the program recalls that it goes back to the beginning of the 15th century, it talks about how the Catholic Monarchs demolished a tower in retaliation against the Compostela bourgeois who fought in succession in favor of another infanta. This at that time was very dishonorable and the man had to leave the pazo, points out the host of the program, which also mentions the cann of the cathedral of Santiago Juan Ibez de Mondragn as the architect of the original layout and horticultural garden; and his nephew Juan de Mondragn, responsible for the definitive delimitation of orchards, gardens and forests. Among the exotic species of the Rivadulla pazo that Franco notices are the so-called beautiful shade (because of its large canopy that protects from the sun), of South American origin, and the giant Australian fern, one of the wonders of the garden, he says. And, of course, its camellias, a shrub from Asia with many properties that has now become part of the landscape heritage of the region. Juan Armada and Dez de Rivera, XI Marquis of Santa Cruz de Rivadulla, also participated in the filming and tells that that, in origin, were fields cultivated by road. He also explains that the height of the most solemn arbor, made of carved stone, is higher than normal and requires a ladder to be used for harvesting because it used to be the main entrance and men mounted on horseback passed under it. Regarding the already famous and award-winning Paseo de los Olivos, he says that it was a way of producing Galician oil at a time when oil from the south barely arrived and the production continued for five centuries, until the 20th, although the occurrence was greater than the cost effectiveness. Finally, they decided to prioritize the aesthetic part over the productive part and decided to value the uniqueness of this grid of centenary olive trees pruned in the shape of a tunnel. In just over 12 minutes dedicated to the pazo de Ortigueira, there is space to talk about the mural fountain of Coca, a symbol of ostentation of the entrance commissioned to one of the most prestigious architects of Santiago of the time, Diego Romay. The documentary series directed by Sonia Tercero Ramiro does not overlook one of the pazo’s most distinguished visitors, the writer Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, that shortly before his death finished the book there Memory in defense of the Central Board, in 1811. Many other authors, such as Valley-Incln, they cited this pazo, full of unwritten legends between its walls and gardens.

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