Jardín Histórico La Cónsula

Jardín Histórico La Cónsula lies in Churriana, Málaga, across twelve and a half hectares of botanical gardens. You would see a French classicist garden beside a mansion surrounding a central courtyard.

The estate began as the agricultural property San Rafael in the eighteenth century. In 1807, Prussian consul Juan Roose Kupckovius began shaping the garden and building the main house. Senator Enrique Heredia Livermore introduced exotic plants after acquiring the estate in 1856. Tropical and subtropical growth includes palms, bamboos, yuccas, araucarias, jacarandas, and Cycas revoluta. Bill and Annie Davis later welcomed Ernest Hemingway, who visited in 1959 and praised the light and warm climate. Málaga City Council purchased the estate in 1973, then restoration began in 1984. Since 1993, the Escuela de Hostelería de Málaga has occupied the historic grounds.

The mansion has white Tuscan marble columns and a colonial style associated with South American and southern United States haciendas. A dome-shaped seventeenth-century temple called the Tumba del cura adds another distinctive landmark.