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The newly restored Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

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The newly restored Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public
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In 1979 the press secretary of the British embassy in Buenos Aires, Randoll Coate, woke from a dream where his friend, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges had died. Writing to Susana Bombal (who had originally introduced them in the 1950s), he unveiled his idea: inspired by Borges’ short story ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’, he vowed to create a labyrinth in his honour whenever the day came. True to his word, after the writer’s death in 1986, the maze maker’s design came to life in Argentina.

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