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The Bacardí gardens occupy an area of ​​approximately 7,000 m2 located on the Travessera de les Corts between Carrer de Benavent, Carrer Felipe de Paz and Carrer Comandante Benítez, right in front of the Barça field. The place name Bacardí refers to the farm that still survived in this place in the middle of the 20th century. In fact, when the Bacardís bought the estate at the end of the 19th century, which was known as Can Ermengol in memory of the former owners, they turned it into a stately home that had a large garden for the family's recreation. wealthy owner and neighbor of Barcelona, ​​Baltasar de Bacardí and Janer. On the death in 1958 of his granddaughter and heiress, Anna Bacardí i Ribas, his three sons began the rezoning and sale of the land, leaving the house and gardens standing. The house was demolished, as it was affected by the new alignments of the Travessera les Corts, and the gardens were expropriated by the city council in 1963, which turned them into a public space. From the old gardens are preserved palm trees of different species (Washingtonia filifera, Phoenix dactylifera, Chamaerops humilis, Tachycarpus fortunei) and bananas (Platanus x hispanica), but there is a hundred-year-old oak (Quercus ilex), listed as a tree of local interest. This specimen is more than 14 meters high, 8 meters in diameter and is estimated to have been born in 1904. Also present are the bottle tree (Brachychiton populneus), the Australian pine (Casuarina cunninghamiana), the love tree (Cercis siliquastrum), the chickpea (Jacaranda mimosifolia), the magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), the olive tree (Olea europaea), the parkinson (Parkinsonia aculeata), the white pine (Pinus halepensis) and the Scots pine (Pinus pinea) among others.

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