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A
Walk on the Premises of Dr. Cesar Parra
A tour of Piaffe Performance Farm
 When
Cesar and Marcela decided to buy their own property
in the U.S. two years ago, Marcela was in charge of
finding the right location. She went to some real estate
agents with her requirements and started to look as
properties. "The funny thing is that both Cesar
and
I looked at this land without knowing
it," Marcela reminisced. When Marcela was shown Shade
Lane
14,
the only thing she
saw was
bushes and trees. "It was horrible, bushes everywhere,"
she said. A couple of months later, however, Cesar
was shown the same estate, but the back side of
it, where there was a large
stretch
of
land,
perfect
to fit a barn on, an outside arena, pastures and much
more. They bought the property and began constructions
almost right away
 The
house is a semi-brick and semi-wooden house painted
in light yellow, which blended in perfectly with the
autumn colours in the backdrop. The interior of the
villa is decorated with style and taste. It was a
pleasure to see that the Parras
had fantastic, modern paintings hanging on each
wall. No overdose
of cheesy horse drawings, but real art was on display
in Cesar's house. One of his paintings has a history
in Colombia. Painted in the 1940s, it depicts a naked
woman on the beach waving and staring in the distance.
"When the Colombian women saw this painting, they held
their hands in front of their eyes and called it blasphemy,"
Cesar told.
 The
view from the kitchen looks out on a track on a moderately
inclining hill. The horses are walked there daily.
Sometimes they are
cantered
up the hill and walked downhill.
It's a good exercise to strengthen their hindquarters
and
to revive
their spirits, by riding them outdoors in nature.
Behind the house there is a paved way towards the
barn. While driving his golf cart to the barn, Cesar
told me that it is far from completed. "We are still
building
a storage barn behind the outdoor dressage arena and
I want to make a soccer field
for Federico all the way in the back," Cesar explained,
"the indoor will be opened up so that we can have an
audience sit there and hold clinics." To me, the barn
looks fabulous already and only the landscaping needs
to be done in order to give the entire farm in image
of perfection.
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and Images copyrighted Astrid Appels/Eurodressage.com.
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