Hacienda San Jorge Gardens

A botanical garden on La Palma

While walking through the garden, or simply admiring it from the terrace or balcony of any of the rooms, and being submerged in that wonderful symphony of sensations that only nature can create – the smell of grass, the scent of flowers, birdsong, water running in streams and fountains where it springs from antique earthenware jars, or flows over a millstone, or plunges from a cascade into miniature rock pools, – all we can say is that there are many gardens which are meant to be visited, but the one at the Hacienda San Jorge is, above all, a garden to be felt.

The paths

The evocative names of the paths which once crisscrossed the estate have also been maintained. While walking through the garden, or simply admiring it from the terrace or balcony of any of the rooms, and being imbued with that wonderful symphony of sensations that only nature can create – the smell of grass, the scent of flowers, birdsong, water running in streams and fountains where it springs from antique earthenware jars, or flows over a millstone, or plunges from a cascade into miniature rock pools, – all we can say is that there are many gardens which are meant to be visited, but the one at the Hacienda San Jorge is, above all, a garden to be felt.

Water and Salt

A “patch of sea in the garden”. A distance of barely forty metres separates the Hacienda San Jorge from the beach, and with this privileged location, even a facility such as the swimming pool could perhaps be regarded as not so important; yet, once again, you will be pleasantly surprised to find a “patch of sea in the garden”, or, to be more precise, an impressive seawater swimming pool of over one thousand cubic metres capacity lying in the central part of the gardens, which was created by adapting its shape to that of a hollow in the ground, thereby achieving perfect integration into the surroundings, and making the pool another highlight of the garden itself.