Lourizán (1)

We came by bus to the estate at Lourizán, a nineteenth-century summer cottage, partly dating from 1893, but substantially renovated in Second Empire Style in 1909 by Jenaro de la Fuente Domínguez.  In 1946 it was turned into a technical school for forestry, but is now dilapidated, awaiting renovation following an architectural competition organised by the Fundación RIA:-

The gardens are magical, formally laid out, but now overgrown:-

We ended at the greenhouse:-

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