Parc de la Font del Racó

Carrer Lluís Muntadas, 1
Sarrià - Sant Gervasi
08035
Barcelona

http://www.barcelona.cat/ca/que-pots-fer-a-bcn/parcs-i-jardins/parc-de-la-font-del-raco_92086011935.html


Latitude: 2.1312283
Longitude: 41.4155895



  • Park or public garden


The first thing that stands out when entering this park is its rustic and natural, because when it was designed to respect the existing landscape. The whole area is crossed by gravel paths, saving the unevenness with bends or, occasionally, with flights of stairs. Everywhere there are wooden benches under the shade of trees, and a very thick undergrowth important.
Because the slope is remarkable (the park literally climbs the mountain) when visiting this park there are two possibilities: up or down. It all depends on the desire to play sports. If you start your tour there is access to the top of the park, at the height of the Plaza del Doctor Andreu, will welcome a magnificent view of Barcelona. Once you cross the door, we enter in the most forest park, which changes from the source of the corner.
The source and places
Going down a flight of stairs to reach it on the rails and widened until now wood give way to a fairly wide mosaic made that leads to the source of the corner. In front there is a small square with benches, too brittle, on both sides of the source. Closing it, in front there is a plaque dedicated to Apel·les Mestres, another bank brittle below, looking towards another larger square, with wooden benches under the shade of trees.
This is an exceptionally quiet place to sit awhile and frequented by schools nearby park. To the left of the square, a stone paved road leads to the main entrance of the park, that is the place to access if we decide to visit the park up.
vegetation
The source of the Corner are large and old trees. The vegetation of a Mediterranean forest species combined with planters that are present. Thus, hackberry (Celtis australis) -some altíssims- are as plentiful as pine (Pinus pinea and Pinus halepensis). There are also carob (Ceratonia siliqua) and oak (Quercus suber and Quercus ilex), which share space with acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), the pepper trees (Schinus molle), cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), the Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis) and olive (Olea europaea), among other species not as abundant as eucalyptus (eucalyptus globulus) or ombu (Phytolacca dioica).
This park is a oak (Quercus cerrioides) part of the Catalogue of Trees of Local Interest in Barcelona. It is a majestic specimen of 18 meters high, with large branches and more than centenary.
Art and Architecture
This place was wild and Frescal favorites Catalan writer and artist Apelles Mestres to go to draw. In 1938 it was placed in front of the small clearing where the source in a lower level of the ground, on a marble pedestal monument stone veneer dedicated to the artist. It was made by Francesc Socías and March, and bears the inscription: "To Apel·les Mestres, friend of children, flowers and birds."
history
The space occupied by the Fountain Park Corner is the result of the acquisition by the City of Barcelona ten panels during the first decade of the twentieth century. In one of these plots was one of the sources where the locals went to chill in summer.
When Nicholas M. Rubio Tudurí designed the park was decisive both in its layout: preserve the rustic nature and vegetation of the site and convert the source in your heart.
This park was the leader of a belt of parks -then considered suburbans- around Barcelona that Rubio was designed to equip the future of urban green spaces in the city in expansion.
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Parc de la Font del Racó

Carrer Lluís Muntadas, 1
Sarrià - Sant Gervasi / Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova
08035 - Barcelona
 http://www.barcelona.cat/ca/que-pots-fer-a-bcn/parcs-i-jardins/parc-de-la-font-del-raco_92086011935.html
The first thing that stands out when entering this park is its rustic and natural, because when it was designed to respect the existing landscape. The whole area is crossed by gravel paths, saving the unevenness with bends or, occasionally, with flights of stairs. Everywhere there are wooden benches under the shade of trees, and a very thick undergrowth important.
Because the slope is remarkable (the park literally climbs the mountain) when visiting this park there are two possibilities: up or down. It all depends on the desire to play sports. If you start your tour there is access to the top of the park, at the height of the Plaza del Doctor Andreu, will welcome a magnificent view of Barcelona. Once you cross the door, we enter in the most forest park, which changes from the source of the corner.
The source and places
Going down a flight of stairs to reach it on the rails and widened until now wood give way to a fairly wide mosaic made that leads to the source of the corner. In front there is a small square with benches, too brittle, on both sides of the source. Closing it, in front there is a plaque dedicated to Apel·les Mestres, another bank brittle below, looking towards another larger square, with wooden benches under the shade of trees.
This is an exceptionally quiet place to sit awhile and frequented by schools nearby park. To the left of the square, a stone paved road leads to the main entrance of the park, that is the place to access if we decide to visit the park up.
vegetation
The source of the Corner are large and old trees. The vegetation of a Mediterranean forest species combined with planters that are present. Thus, hackberry (Celtis australis) -some altíssims- are as plentiful as pine (Pinus pinea and Pinus halepensis). There are also carob (Ceratonia siliqua) and oak (Quercus suber and Quercus ilex), which share space with acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), the pepper trees (Schinus molle), cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), the Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis) and olive (Olea europaea), among other species not as abundant as eucalyptus (eucalyptus globulus) or ombu (Phytolacca dioica).
This park is a oak (Quercus cerrioides) part of the Catalogue of Trees of Local Interest in Barcelona. It is a majestic specimen of 18 meters high, with large branches and more than centenary.
Art and Architecture
This place was wild and Frescal favorites Catalan writer and artist Apelles Mestres to go to draw. In 1938 it was placed in front of the small clearing where the source in a lower level of the ground, on a marble pedestal monument stone veneer dedicated to the artist. It was made by Francesc Socías and March, and bears the inscription: "To Apel·les Mestres, friend of children, flowers and birds."
history
The space occupied by the Fountain Park Corner is the result of the acquisition by the City of Barcelona ten panels during the first decade of the twentieth century. In one of these plots was one of the sources where the locals went to chill in summer.
When Nicholas M. Rubio Tudurí designed the park was decisive both in its layout: preserve the rustic nature and vegetation of the site and convert the source in your heart.
This park was the leader of a belt of parks -then considered suburbans- around Barcelona that Rubio was designed to equip the future of urban green spaces in the city in expansion.
Automatically translated with Google Translate API.
Automatically translated with Google Translate API.