Francisco Páez de la Cadena

Who is Francisco Páez de la Cadena?

Francisco Páez de la Cadena is a Spanish garden historian. He holds a degree in Philosophy and is also an Agricultural Engineer specialized in landscape architecture. He has written several books on gardens and gardening, like Historia de los estilos en jardinería, which has become a reference textbook in Spanish for the history of gardens. He's recently published a history of Spanish gardens, Jardines, la belleza cautiva with photographs by photographer and designer Eduardo Mencos. He is active as a landscape senior lecturer at the University of La Rioja. He also writes fiction, and poetry: Cabos sueltos, Cuadernos de la Granada, 2007. He has translated into Spanish more than sixty books, among them works by V. S. Naipaul, Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the "landscape" poems by Cesare Pavese lately.