A beautiful estate worth checking out -

Lotusland in Montecito
In 1941 Madame Walska, who had a singing career on both sides of the Atlantic, including New York and Paris, bought the 37 acre property, then called the Cuesta Linda estate, and named it Tibetland - later renaming it Lotusland.

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