Miraflores Park

Miraflores Park is a 4.5-acre garden on Hildebrand Avenue in San Antonio, along the east bank of the San Antonio River. It is all that remains of a private park created in the 1920s for Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, a surgeon who left Mexico during the 1910 revolution. The grounds hold about 30 sculptures and garden objects, including tile-covered benches, urns, statues of Mexican historical figures, a small guest house called Quinta Maria built in 1923, and several concrete works by Dionicio Rodriguez. Rodriguez's pieces imitate wood and rock: a hollow-tree gate, a fallen-tree bench, a log stairway, a palapa-roofed bench and a stalactite grotto. Canals, pools and a large fountain once tied the garden together, but only their structures survive. The garden is considered significant as an early twentieth-century sculpture garden and as a showcase for Rodriguez's art and landscape design.