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The garden of the Pazo de Mariñan  is located inside the Ría de Betanzos, in the Mariñas Coruñesas and Tierras de Mandeo Biosphere Reserve, just 25km from the city of A Coruña, in the parish of San Salvador of the City Council of Bergondo, on the left bank of the Mandeo River and very close to historic towns such as Betanzos and Pontedeume.
Recently, the Pazo de Mariñan, has just received the Observer certification for Scientific Tourism, a seal specialized in recognizing the scientific value of unique tourist destinations.

Natural environment

The pazos are the product of nobility, a class that seeks to emulate the high aristocracy in their way of life. An element of prestige is the garden. In these ensembles, various worlds are harmonized in the ornamentation: that of stone, that of water and that of plants.

Historical background

The garden was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century by a French gardener, possibly Mathias Tiebe, and is divided into three zones: ornamental, horticultural and wooded.
<h3>The trees</h3>
The most valuable collection of arborescent myrtles in Galicia stands out, whose presence in the Pazo, together with the Arbutus unedo, considered the largest in this community, dates back to the first half of the 19th century. From the second half of the 20th century, there are around fifty Platanus x hispanica, many over 40 meters high, Eucalyptus globulus which are surely the oldest in Galicia, as well as specimens of Camellia, Phoenix dactylifera, Cupressus lusitánica, Magnolia grandiflora and Fraxinus.
<h3>The Baroque chapel </h3>
In the surroundings of the gardens, the 15th century pazo is located, with renovations from the 17th and 18th centuries and imperial stairways from the 18th century, the Baroque chapel from the 18th century, although with origins from the 15th-16th centuries, with a neoclassical altarpiece of 4 sizes by José Gambino. Inside the building, there is the gallery with works from the s. XIX to the present, especially by Galician artists (Picasso, Brocos, Ovidio Murgía, Isaac Díaz Pardo ...).
The oldest piece is a flamenco-style panel from the 16th century, it also presents pieces loaned on deposit by the Prado Museum, 19th century furniture and other ornamental accessories, carvings, porcelain, traditional works of the province, vintage carriages, etc.
<h3>The garden of the word</h3>
In the garden there is a small jetty that, in addition to being used as a place of leisure, served the lords and servants of the pazo to cross the estuary before the construction of the Pedrido bridge. Starting in 1997, the "garden of the word" was created, in which illustrious visitors plant a tree and leave a message at its foot for the future.

Description

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<li>15th century The origins of the Pazo de Mariñán date back to the mid-15th century as a defense commissioned by Gómez Pérez das Mariñas, a noble knight of the court of Juan II, who actively participated in the Irmandiñas fights. Gómez Pérez das Mariñas called himself "Lord of the Mariñas, of Mesía and of Moscoso". The initial construction is known as "de Bergondo". Mariñán from Gómez Pérez das Mariñas is inherited from father to son. It is a genealogical line that, without breaks, ends in Don Gerardo Bermúdez de Castro and Suárez de Deza, lord of Láncara. A good part of the great Galician lineages converges in his blood: the houses of Traba, Altamira, Lemos, Luis de Pimentel and Sotomayor, Hueca, Sarmiento, Ulloa, Suárez de Deza, Osorio, Láncara, etc.</li>
<li>18th century In the second half of the 18th century it began to become a pazo (a residential palace for aristocratic families) and its orchards and farmland were transformed into well-tended gardens. The architecture of the Pazo presents a plan of a “U” structure. The main façade is dominated by an imperial staircase, where two stone servants, administrator and butler, receive newcomers. From the staircase there is access to the entrance room that acts as a distributor to the other units. The rear façade is dominated by a wide terrace with balustrades and a curious organization of accesses, interspersing sections broken at an angle, topped with sculptures of vases, fountains and channels for water games. The large chapel may have had a primitive foundation with the second daughter of Gómez Pérez de las Mariñas, Doña Constanza, who inherited this house. However, in the 18th century, within the stylistic guidelines of the Baroque, an absolute reform was carried out. The façade, with a bell tower and pinnacles topped in balls, is typical of that century. On the contrary, the altarpiece takes us into neoclassical rationalism. It presents two doors; one in the upper part through which owners and those close to the small choir or tribune accessed, and another on the ground floor, forming a right angle with the main facade of the house, through which the rest of those attending the worship entered. In addition to fulfilling its religious function, it was, as in other pazos, a link between the owners and the surrounding neighbours.</li>
<li>1936 Its last owner, Mr. Gerardo Bermúdez de Castro, who when he died without issue in 1936, donated the Pazo to the A Coruña County Council for social purposes. It was hospice for more than three decades. At present, in addition to being a museum and art gallery, it hosts institutional events and socio-cultural activities.</li>
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Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the palace and the forecourt, Sylwester Cichal,

Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the linden alley and the regular garden, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, the linden alley, Dariusz Piwowarski

Hornbeam espalier in the garden in Nieborów, Monika Bajkowska

Palace and garden complex in Nieborów, Dariusz Bógdał

Palace garden in Nieborów, view of the palace from the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, ornamental parterres, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, ornamental parterres and boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

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Old orangery in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

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Linden alley in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Garden cabinet with the eagle column, garden in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

Garden canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Alley by the canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak,

Canal in the garden in Nieborów, Monika Bajkowsk

Plane trees in the palace garden in Nieborów, Xenia Modrzejewska-Mrozowska

Old orchard in Nieborów, Katarzyna Żak-Zatorska

Orchard in winter, Nieborów, Sylwester Borusiak vel Boruta

Exhibition: conservation works in the Nieborów palace garden, Sylwester Cichal

Nieborów palace garden

Palace Garden in Nieborów

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