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The space follows a longitudinal axis, down the avenue of John XXIII and entering the street Doctor Salvador Cardenal, connect Diagonal with Travessera de les Corts, and many residents who use the paths of the garden.
Relax, observe and play
Maternity gardens are an ideal place to rest in the bank are on either side of the roads.
The girl has two children's play areas. One located in a depression that is in the middle of the gardens, surrounded Melia and a pagoda tree in the middle of the lawn, close games; and the other is at the top, protected by a low wall.
vegetation
Due to the variety of plant species, including trees, there are the gardens of Motherhood, this is a good place for amateur botanists, as there can see specimens of dimensions and quality not very common.
Many of the large trees scattered are planted in the spacious lawns are highly ornamental with spectacular flowers like the love trees with their abundant flowers and small intensely pink appearing early spring, red or plum purple red leaves.
Gardens Maternity also find eucalyptus, mulberry, olive and pepper trees, cypresses and huge pine trees of different species, acacias, rosewood, pagoda trees, chestnut bark, fainting, fig, ombu, poplars and many other trees, with a variety of up to 40 different species.
There are two points to note: the towering date palms and Canary Island magnolias of a size that exceptional, especially one of them, huge, probably the biggest in Barcelona, ​​with more than 12 m and a width of over 15 meters long. When, in late spring, they begin to open their huge white flowers, is a spectacle.
Art and Architecture
Maternity gardens are part of a complex that has buildings of great value. Built on the grounds of Can Cavaller, the project's initial structure of the grounds and pavilions, most Modernista was given to Camil Oliveres and tired, then architect of the council, who distributed the buildings independently by site following the most advanced health standards of that time. After his death, other architects continued the project.
The pavilions of breastfeeding and the Ave Maria, located near the entrance to the Travessera de les Corts, are the work of Olives. He opened Josep tired and continued work with the construction of the Pavilion Prat de la Riba. In 1924, Joan Rubio Bellver and Josep Godall and Casals realized the Rose Pavilion and the Pavilion Blue Godall. In the late 50s, Manuel Baldrich i Tubau built the Cambó Pavilion, overlooking the traverse.
Currently, the building houses Les Corts Secondary School, COM Radio station and the offices of the Provincial Council and the University of Barcelona.
history
The valuable architectural heritage that is the site of the gardens is linked to the maternity and health care needs of the population disadvantaged: care for abandoned children, secret pregnancies and medical care.
This was the reason why, between 1889 and 1898, the Barcelona Provincial Council initiated the creation of the Provincial House of Orphans and Maternity, charitable.
Because the destination of care for which was built the complex and its breadth, the gardens were designed to have their own sponge all the space they occupy the halls and making much more enjoyable rest of the users as travel within the enclosure and between different buildings.

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