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Images of the garden of Murcia that refuses to disappear and others are history form the thread of the photographic exhibition that the artist and retired employee of the University of Murcia María Manzanera forth in the Casino of the city.
The exhibition can be visited until June 25, every day of the week, in the morning and afternoon.
In the book, published by Pictograph, images are collected with the jars in which rainwater was stored when the garden had not yet come clean, or ditches where the water ran clear in a haven of peace and calmed the thirst of orchards beautifully maintained by farmers.
Typical corners of the entrances to the vegetable garden houses, where there were always faltan- pots or, much less, giving the grape vine, but above all, it provides shade, or the giant pines of the parish of Churra, which They rise towards the sun.
Tomato, palm trees laden with dates, lemon abundant in fruits at the foot of the Christ of Monteagudo, or loquat equally generous harvest after harvest.
Manzanera writes in the introduction to the work published in bilingual Spanish-English- "the garden is our strength and our vital breath, although we are not aware of it; what has already been lost must not serve as an example for repeat as unfortunate mistakes. "
He concludes with an invitation, "volquémonos to discover and love for us, and those who follow us, we enjoy a unique land and a sublime and unique landscape that is for us to save".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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