Andalucian Poets' Garden in Estepona

The 'Andalucian Poets Passage' © Michelle Chaplow
The 'Andalucian Poets Passage' of Estepona

Andalucian Poets' Garden in Estepona

The Andalucian Poets' Garden in Estepona is an interesting concept. It is named Jardin de los Poetas Andaluces or Pasaje Poetas Andaluces. The casual passer-by walking down Calle Jesús Cautivo and glancing into the garden will be forgiven for thinking they are transformed back to the middle ages or Game of Thrones set where the heads of criminals are impaled on stakes. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The garden was opened in April 2017 and after a derelicked building was demolished a passage was opened which usefully connected Calle Jesús Cautivo with Plaza Mario Vargas Llosa.

In the garden there are twelve bronze busts mounted at head-height on marble pillars. The work was created by the artist Elena Lunas.

One of the poets Carlos Murciano, was actually present at the opening.

The poets represented in bronze are Carlos Murciano, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Vicente Alexandre, Luis Cernuda, Luis Rosales, Leopoldo de Luís, Rafael Montesinos, Francisco Garfias, Alfonso Canales, Luis Jiménez Martos, Fernando Quiñones and Antonio Hernández.

A ceramic on the wall  encompases the words of  Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel literatura prize winner. This ceramic has been sponsored by one of the poets in the garden Carlos Murciano who himself won the Premio Nacional de Poesía (Spanish National Poetry prize)  in  1970 and Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (Spanish National Children's Literature prize) in 1982. 

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