Huerto de Calixto y Melibea

The Huerto de Calisto y Melibea is a 2500 square meter garden located in the old town of the city of Salamanca. It was inaugurated on June 12, 1981.

It is named for being the setting that Fernando de Rojas chose to recreate the novel Tragicomedy by Calisto and Melibea (published in 1502).

It is located on the slope of the old Salamanca wall at the foot of the Tormes river.

At present, it is a park that can be visited with a romantic character due to the love story of the characters in love with the work of Fernando de Rojas: Calixto and Melibea.

It is a well-kept garden that has several tree, shrub and floral varieties. The so-called Vizier garden is added to the orchard.

When the garden was inaugurated in 1981, the town was twinned with Coimbra, as reflected in a commemorative plaque on the garden walls.

The most striking species for the unexpected at 800 meters above sea level in the North Submeseta are a Phoenix canariensis, a Washingtonia filifera, a Cordyline terminalis, a parterre of agapanthus and a plumbago offered to the Orchard in 1991 by a Granada-born resident in Salamanca that he felt fleetingly transported to a romantic Andalusian garden in the Huerto, and wanted to complete the twinning by introducing never seen ornamental species in the public gardens of the city.

Later on, the Huerto collection has been enriched with other unusual plants in the city's gardens, such as the St. John's wort, agaves, holm oaks, medlars and even a beech tree.

Article obtained from Wikipedia article Wikipedia in his version of 23/10/2020, by various authors under the license Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU.

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