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Has the merit to host garden oldest preserved in the city A garden that was born as an eighteenth-century neoclassical garden with a touch of Italian appearance and was completed as a romantic garden. It owes its name to the maze of cypress trees that are cut in the bottom of the enclosure.


The labyrinth consists of wide walls of cypress trees (Cupressus sempervirens) to reach the center of this garden. There is a sculpture of Eros where the minotaur should be. It is a partly Neoclassical and partly Romantic garden. Symmetry, topiary art and regular gardening, temples with Tuscan columns, fountains and fountains, mythological sculptures, a neoclassical pavilion dedicated to the muses and, on the other hand, a waterfall and a stream on a bed of stone, moss and wild plants , a more jungle and shady garden, upholstered in ivy and the flower of love, irregular tree arrangement of yews, pines, bananas and lime trees of great port and even a false cemetery. The park was born neoclassical in 1791 and grew and was completed romantically in 1853
The Horta Labyrinth Park is a garden-museum. It has a Chinese door, a vestige of an already extinct oriental garden, also a garden of the Boixos (Buxus sempervirens), designed by the Italian landscape painter and gardener Domenico Bagutti, commissioned by Antoni Desvalls, Marquis of Llupià and Alfarràs. From this garden come the paths that lead either to the temples of Ariadne and Danae, or to the domestic garden and also to the romantic garden that occupies everything on the left flank. In the home garden are a linden tree (Tilia tomentosa) and a Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara) which are in the catalog of trees of local interest, accompanied by yews (Taxus baccata), cocoons (Cocculus laurifolius) of large size and a Jupiter tree (Lagerstroemia indica) as well as a camellia plantation (Camellia) Towards the temples and the neoclassical pavilion there is an alignment of holm oaks (Quercus ilex) encircled on a laurel fence (Laurus nobilis) that shades the route. A specimen of sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) is also in the catalog of trees of local interest. Along the other paths there are more centuries-old holm oaks (Quercus Ilex), and the dead flower, the agapanthus (Agapanthus umbellatus). Before reaching the temples there are imposing walls of cypress (Curprssus sempervirens). The trees surrounding the set are holm oaks (Quercus ilex), pines (Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinea) and oaks (Quercus robur). At the top of the park are the temples on the right and left and on the central axis the stairs and the neoclassical pavilion, the work of Domenico Bagutti. From the labyrinth you go up to the pavilion next to the romantic canal, originally navigable. Behind the pavilion there is a large laundry room that covers by gravity the water games of the fountains and fountains located in the lower route.
The canal ends in a waterfall and becomes a stream, while the vegetation also becomes wild. On this route is the farmer's refuge, excavated in the rock and the hermit's wooden hut surrounded by holm oaks (Quercus ilex), pines (Pinus pinea and Pinus canariensis) and abundant maquis vegetation with evonyms (Euonymus japonicus). , ivory (Viburnum tinus), laurels (Laurus nobilis) and pitospores (Pittosporum tobira), Coralets of Japan (Berberis thumbergi). The upholstering presence of ivy (Hedera helix) takes advantage of this more humid and shady environment. In the false cemetery there are carpets of the flower of love, the agapanthus (Agaphantus umbellatus) and fern bushes (Nephrolepis exaltata), boxwoods (Buxus sempervirens), galzeran (Ruscus aculeatus). Among the largest trees are yews (Taxus baccata), laurels (Laurus nobilis), oaks (Quercus pubencens), flowering ash trees (Fraxinus ornus), bananas (Platanus X hispanica) and linden trees (Tilia europaea). There are squirrels, hedgehogs and in the naturalized ponds amphibians and water snakes.
History
The park occupies land of an estate of the Marquis of Llupià, Poal and Alfarràs who commissioned the work to Domenico Bagutti, who worked there until 1808. The gardener Delvalet made the plantations and the master of works Jaume Valls, supervised the works. The Desvalls family maintained the property until the 1970s, when it passed to the City Council. It was inaugurated as a park in 1971. In 1994 it was restored. For more information you can look at The Biodiversity Guide.

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