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This park is a place where live the rustic elegance of wood with a garden shrubs trimmed, where water plays a major role. It is one of the largest green spaces and more contrasts in Barcelona. At bottom, next to the street, a child spins his hoop in the middle of a sea of ​​flowers.

The urban area of the Park
It comes from the 1997 remodeling of the lower part of the park, which was enlarged and linked to the Plaça del Nen de la Rutlla. It consists of terraces located on different levels separated by slopes with grass, trees and shrubs.

The historic park
It consists of a lush and rustic garden, which climbs the mountain along the axis of a stream through terraces connected by paths and stairs. Above all there is a laundry room with magnificent views. In the central part of the ascent there are stone walls furrowed by small canals through which the water that flows down from the laundry flows, forming waterfalls that fill ponds.
The forest park
With a steep slope, it is made up of an important grove that surrounds the highest part of the historic area and extends down the hill. Everything is full of intersecting paths. The viewpoint of the Crescent is remarkable.


A high space
The view from the viewpoint of Sant Joan is also beautiful. As the height of the forest area is considerable, in summer it is nice to have a snack-dinner in the picnic area.

Vegetation
In the urban part, the large white pines and the tipuanes stand out, which, in summer, are filled with yellow flowers. Love trees, mulberries, elms and olive trees are other trees in this area. The historic area is full of large hedges on the roads. Shrubs, such as pitospor, laurel and oleander, and aromatic plants, such as rosemary and lavender, are abundant. There are also many carob trees, cypresses, cedars, mimosas and holm oaks, most of them large. In the little ones there is Lobelia laxiflora, and in the small squares that climb the mountain, sophoras, ever-blooming mimosas and bitter orange trees. Above all, a thick forest opens up, very natural and spontaneous, with white pines and in some places also cedars, and a very Mediterranean undergrowth.


History
This park comes from the land reserves that were established in the early twentieth century. It faces the sea and has been municipally owned since 1910. The historic part was first built by Jean-Claude-Nicolas Forestier in collaboration with Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí. Fox name ... The name Guinardó comes from an old farmhouse: Mas Guinardó, currently the District’s Entity House. There are, however, many more things behind this name, as Joan Corbera i Palau, from the Guinardó History Group of the Rocaguinarda Cultural Cooperative, explains. Etymologically Guinardó probably comes from guinarda, fox in old Catalan. This is not, however, the only explanation. There is another between history and legend. ... the bandit? When Miguel de Cervantes came to Barcelona he was in this farmhouse, which seems to have belonged to the famous bandit Perot Rocaguinarda, whence the name Guinardó. There is talk of secret corridors, long and labyrinthine, which allowed Rocaguinarda to escape when he was besieged by the viceroy's troops, as they connected the farmhouse with the interior of the old walled Barcelona. "Perot the Thief" Rocaguinarda, son of Oristano and known as "Perot lo Lladre", achieved such a reputation that even Cervantes echoed it in Don Quixote. He was a member of the banditry of the nyerros, at a time - the sixteenth century - when banditry had more to do with belonging to a "side" than with the thief. More than criminals, bandits were the result of clashes between feudal lords, instruments for settling lawsuits between the most influential people of the time and which disappeared when a common front had to be faced in the Reapers' War.

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