Parc de la Guineueta

Plaça Llucmajor
Nou Barris
08042
Barcelona

http://www.barcelona.cat/ca/que-pots-fer-a-bcn/parcs-i-jardins/parc-de-la-guineueta_92086011957.html


Latitude: 2.1744768
Longitude: 41.4382735



  • Park or public garden


The elongated shape and slope of Guineueta Park is to be made on an ancient natural ravine.
There is a central parterre with two parallel main roads that connect with those who believe the rest of the space up and down. Above, a great place to stage for many meetings. At the bottom of the park is the more conventional places. At the top, next to the park, there are schools and sports facilities.
Gatherings and celebrations
On Sunday, the Association of Sardanista Ideal Clave in the district of Roquetas organizes Sardana dancing, and in October held a large gathering Sardana, bringing together around 3,000 people. For two weeks every year institutions Andalusian Nou Barris district celebrated the feast of "Cruces de Mayo" and the first Sunday of March, the Federation of Andalusian Cultural Entities in Catalonia celebrates Andalusia Day with a donation floral monument to Blas Infante park.
vegetation
If you enter the park through the main entrance, next to the square of Llucmajor, striking a group of eight palms (Washingtonia filifera) large port. Near this entrance is also noteworthy pines (Pinus halepensis) and acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
Framing the top of the central parterre is a scenic grove, very ornamental trees and yucca (Yucca elephantipes and yucca gloriosa) jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia), the Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum), the leg (Bauhinia forficata) and pepper trees (Schinus molle). Behind the forest, on both sides, the crowns of date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) and fan palms (Washingtonia robusta).
Park Guineueta there are cedar (Cedrus deodara) and Tuies Tuies giants (Thuja orientalis and Calocedrus decurrens), hackberry (Celtis australis), stone pines (Pinus pinea) that shade the children's play area, bananas ( Platanus x hispanica), which protects from the sun in summer the picnic area, and some olive trees (Olea europaea), among other tree species. Walking up the main road on the left there is a jujube (Ziziphus Jujube) planted in 1999, with a plaque that remembers and another later in homage to Pere Font i Puig, author Sardana Park Zorro which was placed in 2002 by the Association of Sardanista Ideal in Clave.
Art and Architecture
In this park there are two sculptures, one associated with his name and the other with one of the events that are held each year: Andalusia Day in Catalonia. Fox is a piece of iron painted 5 m long and 1.5 m high work of Julia River and Sierra, which is deep, attentive, behind a hedge Just like a fox lurking.
The other sculpture park -in truth a monument was an initiative of the Andalusian Centre of Catalonia and is Barcelona's homage to Blas Infante. It is a group formed by a row of small columns truncated tall (eight as the Andalusian provinces) made of pink marble and placed on a base of black granite, designed by Josep Lluís Delgado. Next there is a bronze bust of stone Blas Infante by Xavier Cuenca Ituri.
history
The Guineueta is one of the parks in the second half of the last century were created in Barcelona with the aim of providing green spaces in housing developments that were built to accommodate a significant portion of immigration workers who came to the city between the 1950s and 1960s.
The park is located in one of two polygons that make up the district Guineueta, a name linked to the torrent of Zorro, which crosses the land. The partial plan to develop this new district was approved in 1956 and houses were built until 1970, when the park was prepared.

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Parc de la Guineueta

Plaça Llucmajor
Nou Barris / La Guineueta
08042 - Barcelona
 http://www.barcelona.cat/ca/que-pots-fer-a-bcn/parcs-i-jardins/parc-de-la-guineueta_92086011957.html
The elongated shape and slope of Guineueta Park is to be made on an ancient natural ravine.
There is a central parterre with two parallel main roads that connect with those who believe the rest of the space up and down. Above, a great place to stage for many meetings. At the bottom of the park is the more conventional places. At the top, next to the park, there are schools and sports facilities.
Gatherings and celebrations
On Sunday, the Association of Sardanista Ideal Clave in the district of Roquetas organizes Sardana dancing, and in October held a large gathering Sardana, bringing together around 3,000 people. For two weeks every year institutions Andalusian Nou Barris district celebrated the feast of "Cruces de Mayo" and the first Sunday of March, the Federation of Andalusian Cultural Entities in Catalonia celebrates Andalusia Day with a donation floral monument to Blas Infante park.
vegetation
If you enter the park through the main entrance, next to the square of Llucmajor, striking a group of eight palms (Washingtonia filifera) large port. Near this entrance is also noteworthy pines (Pinus halepensis) and acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
Framing the top of the central parterre is a scenic grove, very ornamental trees and yucca (Yucca elephantipes and yucca gloriosa) jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia), the Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum), the leg (Bauhinia forficata) and pepper trees (Schinus molle). Behind the forest, on both sides, the crowns of date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) and fan palms (Washingtonia robusta).
Park Guineueta there are cedar (Cedrus deodara) and Tuies Tuies giants (Thuja orientalis and Calocedrus decurrens), hackberry (Celtis australis), stone pines (Pinus pinea) that shade the children's play area, bananas ( Platanus x hispanica), which protects from the sun in summer the picnic area, and some olive trees (Olea europaea), among other tree species. Walking up the main road on the left there is a jujube (Ziziphus Jujube) planted in 1999, with a plaque that remembers and another later in homage to Pere Font i Puig, author Sardana Park Zorro which was placed in 2002 by the Association of Sardanista Ideal in Clave.
Art and Architecture
In this park there are two sculptures, one associated with his name and the other with one of the events that are held each year: Andalusia Day in Catalonia. Fox is a piece of iron painted 5 m long and 1.5 m high work of Julia River and Sierra, which is deep, attentive, behind a hedge Just like a fox lurking.
The other sculpture park -in truth a monument was an initiative of the Andalusian Centre of Catalonia and is Barcelona's homage to Blas Infante. It is a group formed by a row of small columns truncated tall (eight as the Andalusian provinces) made of pink marble and placed on a base of black granite, designed by Josep Lluís Delgado. Next there is a bronze bust of stone Blas Infante by Xavier Cuenca Ituri.
history
The Guineueta is one of the parks in the second half of the last century were created in Barcelona with the aim of providing green spaces in housing developments that were built to accommodate a significant portion of immigration workers who came to the city between the 1950s and 1960s.
The park is located in one of two polygons that make up the district Guineueta, a name linked to the torrent of Zorro, which crosses the land. The partial plan to develop this new district was approved in 1956 and houses were built until 1970, when the park was prepared.

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