Beautiful Cervantes Park expands on sunny green area. With all its flowers and scents, the park is perfect for family picnics with children, for athletes, for running or riding a bicycle. Actually, this is a park of roses, and the idea for its creation appeared during an important international competition in the Pedralbes Palace between 1929 and 1936. Among others, biologists and experts for growing roses of all kinds and sizes took part in this competitions. In 1980, there was another competition, but this time it was open to public, and it proved to be a huge success. It took years of maintain the gardens and rose plants for the park to become one of the most beautiful parks in Europe.
Today, there is a large number of plants and flowers in the park. Besides beautiful and fragrant roses, there is also greenery, climbers, palm and olive trees, as well as tropical flowers and trees. There are oleanders, olives, lemons, tropical flowers from other continents which like the climate of the Iberian Peninsula. You may also enjoy the beauty of pines, some plants from America, India and Africa. The park prides itself on the rose collection which consists of 10.000 plants, i.e. over 2.000 species. They blossom from May to July, and some of them even during winter. By visiting the park and taking a tour, you actually go on a tour around the world – from Europe to Asia, from the Middle East to America. One part of the park is devoted to rose species from the 19th century, and there are also some that date back to the period of ancient Greece and Rome. In addition to that, there are benches throughout the park that are perfect for relaxing.
One part of the park is called Diagonal Avenue. and the garden of fragrances is located there with 235 rose species, where each one has a different scent. This park is also decorated with pretty sculptures. One of them is dedicated to the diplomat Angel Ganivet, and another on is the statue of Concha Espina. There are also two “Rombes Bessons” sculptures that depict a geometric work of art, and there is another statue of a female naked body. There is also a smaller park with the main park, very pretty and sunny, it is for children where they can spend quality time, play table tennis or just have fun with the fountains. It is very crowded in the summer period.
Working hours: 10.00h – 21.00h
Entrance is FREE OF CHARGE
Autor teksta
Maja Glavaš, diplomirani komunikolog. Radi u turizmu.
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