El jardín histórico: memoria esencial del paisaje cultural

Abstract

The permanence of the characteristics of the historic garden and its environment and the evolution of relationships between nature and human are some of the factors of cultural landscape. Historic Garden is included in its environment and depends on it, but its disposition generally extends throughout its surroundings to structure it. Spanish Garden is one of the most dependants on its environment, which is not propitious to gardening; so, it is nec¬essary to modificate this deficient conditions to implant gardens; this modification is organized by the mere garden composition, that is projected beyond the original limits to extend its geometri¬cal pattern to the external territory. Aranjuez is the best example of this fact. A huge territory modified by Phillip the Second that integrate a palace and surrounding buildings, formal gardens, parks, innovate orchards and woods, vertebrated by water –river Tagus and a web of channels-