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    1. George Orwell Gardens, in the grounds of Lleida's Santa Maria Hospital. Orwell was cared for here eighty years ago after being wounded fighting fascism in the civil war.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  1. …in reply to @jimkennedy
    "There was a pleasant garden in the hospital grounds, and in it was a pool with gold-fishes and some small dark grey fish--bleak, I think. I used to sit watching them for hours." - Homage to Catalonia. The pool is still there, with goldfish; my boy likes watching them too.