Paradise is on Earth, as the Nasrid kings well knew.
The Arab garden somehow represents that longing, embodied in the orchard like fallen from heaven that arises in the Alhambra and in
the miracle of the water that surrounds everything.
Gardens of the Alhambra and the Generalife
(La 2 de TVE) gives the title to the fifth installment of a series that has something of the proverbial reunion of man with nature.
Filmed at full speed and with the restrictions of the pandemic,
Gardens with history
"is, however, a
green and blue haven in these gray times.
"It was very difficult to start with the production at the beginning of the de-escalation, but the gardens began to respond with enthusiasm and the team overturned," recalls the director of the series, S
onia Tercero Ramiro
.
"We started a long shoot on the peninsula and the achipelagos in the middle of summer, in which we suffered all the heat waves and with the Covid protocols that allowed a maximum of 10 people on the shoot."
The journey started in a carriage and at
the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, he
then jumped to the Pazo de Oca in Galicia, and the Orotava Acclimatization Garden in Tenerife, and Chillida Leku, in Guipúzcoa, before stopping at the Patio de la Acequia del Generalife, where the curator José Tito Rojo will explain the secrets of his recovery, and the botanical advisor Amelia Garrido Campos will evoke the aromas, and the writer Bárbara Boloix will tell what life was like in the palace of Nasrid women.
The gardens with soul and history are happening with the architect
Arturo Franco in the role of explorer, narrator and indefatigable companion of this trip
in 13 stops that will then take us to La Granja de San Ildefonso, the Huerto del Cura (Alicante), Parc Samà (Tarragona), Evaristo Valle Foundation (Asturias);
Gardens of Raixa and Son Marroig (Mallorca), Señorío de Bertiz (Navarra) and the Jardin de la Concepción (Málaga).
The final highlight will be the Parque del Capricho, one of the most romantic, beautiful and unknown corners of Madrid.
"In the selection, it was decisive to have a variety of historical biographies and a contrast with the images of the gardens to
represent the beauty of our plant heritage,"
says Sonia Tercero Ramiro, unable to choose the garden of her dreams among all those stepped on in "the craziest summer of our lives".
Despite all the inconveniences, a factor worked in their favor: "The gardens had very little capacity, and that allowed us to be in many places almost alone.
In the Alhambra, with almost no tourists,
we could enjoy a picture that did not I think it is repeated in our lives. "
"The main objective of Islamic art is to establish a complementary relationship with nature", Arturo Franco reminds us with his closeness and eloquence, at the start of the fifth chapter of the series.
Mónica Luengo Añón (landscape consultant and art historian) and Javier González Gracía de Angela (botanical advice) contributed notably to the difficult choice and
to total immersion in these paradises
that were almost always possible thanks to the impulse of people ahead of their time (such as Alonso de Nava-y-Grimón, architect of the incredible botanical garden of La Orotava, conceived in 1790 to "acclimate" exotic species to the peninsula).
"History and art, science and nature go hand in hand even though it may not seem like it", emphasizes Sonia Tercero Ramiro, who has come a long way since her first documentaries on education ("The secret of educating", "The forgotten school" ) until reaching "Sorolla: los viajes de la luz" (New York Film and Television Festival Award, 2018) and "Ramón Menéndez Pidal, the hidden story in words" (2020).
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