This park of extraordinary botanical wealth, popularly known as “El Vivero” was built between 1893 and 1895, a time in which Mr. Eduardo Carvajal would be mayor of Bailén and from whom it inherits its name.
This garden will be one of your first views when entering Bailén from the south along Parador Avenue. Inside we will find a wide variety of flowers and trees such as the three-thorn acacia, Judas Tree, rose bushes, American cane, cypress, wallflowers, cineraria, carraspiques, sage, rosemary…
Inside the park we find a charming little house that would be used as a residence since 1914 by the gardener of that place and his family. It was Mr. Salvador Merlo, who would plante a large part of the species that this environment contains today, and who lived with his wife Mrs. Olaya Tamargo and their seven children in this extraordinary place, making sure that everything remained radiant. Among the legends of the Nursery, there is one that Salvador told and which he called “The Enchanted One”, and which was about a beautiful woman who appeared to him at dawn and asked him to accompany her to a place where a hidden treasure was found, but whom Salvador never dared to follow.
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