Description

The landscaping of the Pazo de Rubianes began at the end of the 17th century with a gardening project that encompasses the surroundings closest to the palace and the area known as the frog pond. It was throughout the eighteenth century when the most important actions were carried out in relation to the ordering of crops and the increase of landscaped areas.

Plant monuments

The passion for gardening was transmitted from father to son and throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, new gardening projects followed one another with the introduction of species that today have become authentic plant monuments: magnolias, calocedrons, cryptomeries, eucalyptus trees, camphors, ash trees, araucarias, oaks, cork oaks, camellias and many other species that today populate the Pazo de Rubianes botanical park and count the years by the hundreds.

Without a doubt, the Pazo de Rubianes garden is a camellia garden, a winter garden… A season in which the more than eight hundred varieties of flowering camellias shine, making this garden a unique setting in Europe.

Devotion to camellia

The recent history of the Pazo de Rubianes garden has two protagonists: Ms. Dolores Urcola Zuloaga and Ms. Paloma Rey Fernández-Latorre. Dña. Dolores "La Marquesa" has lived on the farm for almost 80 years and is responsible for the conservation of the garden for much of the 20th century. A great Amazon and botanical lover with a devotion to camellia, she is an example of love and sacrifice for this centenary garden.

Dña. Paloma, current Lady of Rubianes and Marquesa de Aranda, widow of Don Gonzalo Ozores de Urcola, is today the soul of the estate. She is a model of commitment and responsibility with the heritage that she has had to care for and safeguard.

Reference in Galicia 

They are more than 30 years and to which she counts working for the conservation and recovery of the property together with her husband Don Gonzalo. She is the protagonist of the recovery of the estate after the terrible fires of 2006. Her devotion to the historic garden and her love for this heritage have made the property an example and reference in Galicia in the botanical, architectural and viticulture.