The Botanical Garden from Malaga, is an oasis of English landscape style with more than 150 years of history. Thus, what began as a recreational estate for the Marquises of the Loring House, very influential in the city since the mid-19th century, is today a beautiful space with more than 50,000 plants, and one of the few that have subtropical climate species in all of Europe.
These are more than enough reasons to visit it, but also, for the first time, the garden hosts Las Luces del Botánico at this time, “a luminous fairytale landscape with Christmas light sets, impressive illuminated vegetation and creative light figures ”, as they explain from the organization.
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The facility, which began its journey in the Royal Botanic Gardens-Kew From london, and has continued with installations in cities such as Berlin and Barcelona -with Els Llums de Sant Pau-, it arrives in Malaga in the form of circular route of just over two kilometers, with around two million lights on.
"The show includes a lighting and music environment l and develops a visual narrative with the characters that are part of the history of the garden. It has one of the lakes as its setting, where Amalia Heredia, Marchioness of Casa Loring, Through her diary, she tells in a dramatized narration the memories and beautiful stories that have happened in this emblematic garden”, they tell Traveler.es from the organization.
The visit lasts approximately one hour and ten minutes , and both before and after carrying it out, it is possible to eat something in a confectionery enabled during the seven weeks that the event lasts, every night until January 9, 2022. “The lights of the Botánico offer a slow break from the hustle and bustle of christmas for the whole family and draws the eye to the contemplative world in the most beautiful time of the year”, add its organizers.
Colorful Christmas in a magical setting
CONTROVERSIAL CROWDS
Despite this invitation to “stop”, there have been complaints about the maximum capacity allowed in the place, both at the time of parking, and at the time of traveling the itinerary, even stating that, due to the crowd, it was only possible “go with the flow” of the crowd. Asked about this extreme, from Las Luces del Botánico they respond: “ services have been strengthened of the tourist bus and line 2 of the EMT [public buses], in addition to optimizing the parking lot of the Botánico”.
Public transport is, in fact, the way to get there recommended by the organization. Thus, the tourist bus ‘Christmas Lights - Line 91' It runs daily every hour during the week, while on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays it runs every 30 minutes. It is also possible to access the enclosure through the regular line 2 , whose last stop is a ten-minute walk from the garden.