Landa Gardens is home to our beautiful Valero Energy Pavilion created by nationally renowned local artist, Carlos Cortés.
The 30x15 feet faux bois pavilion is designed in the art form known as trabajo rústico which translates to concrete sculptures that look like petrified trees. The pavilion resembles a grove of shade trees and is nestled among the lovely live oaks that have graced the Landa grounds for decades. Cortés learned the art from his great uncle, Dionicio Rodriguez, and his father, Maximo Cortés. The work of all three generations can be seen throughout San Antonio at such locations as the H-E-B Science Tree House at the Witte Museum, Brackenridge Park and the San Antonio Riverwalk.
The Valero Energy Pavilion serves as a canopy underneath which storytelling can be heard, theater productions and concerts can be staged, and birthday parties and weddings can be celebrated.
For information about renting the pavilion, please call the San Antonio Public Library at (210) 207-2696.
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
