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Gardens and Pools Sports group an area of ​​one hectare in the Sant Gervasi and now become one of the parks with sports facilities and entertainment most active southwestern slope of this district. The larger area is concentrated in the south side, near the street and Fontestà Bori. It is a large semicircular circumscribed ways that border, along with a central way, two large meadow on which they placed large trees that give ample height and shadow areas.
The area has traditionally enjoyed great popularity both as a place for walking, recreation and leisure and for outdoor sports. At the beginning of the century was the seat of the Real Club de Polo. After he became a sports widely used by the public.
history
The gardens are very popular among the locals since the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1910 the Real Club de Polo settled there, the land popularly known as Can Rabia, near the road to Sarria. A gap between Diagonal Avenue and the site where the stadium would rise later Sarria RCD Espanyol. The site, much higher than the current green space, grouped pitches, horse tracks, parking stalls service, social and sports areas such as tennis courts and gardens with areas for walking. In 1932 it moved to its current location, on Avenida Diagonal. The sports park Can Rabies became in 1935 the sports complex and swimming sports. RCD Espanyol sports facilities used as a space for trials of players or other activities related to football. Pools and Sports hosted school sports championships, Olympics popular Sardana dancing, dances and festivals. During the civil war became a recruitment center. During the dictatorship regain its role as a private sports center as "Piscinas y Deportes." The local pressure caused in the late eighties, the space to regain public use.
biodiversity
Access the street Doctor Fleming will see a small pond with two semicircular fainting. From this point, we see a wide expanse conducive to walking, half-shaded and quiet. In the foreground we see great examples of ombú or Ombu (Phytolacca gods) and rosewood (Tipuana types). Bordering equipment are private, afilerades, Palm (Phoenix canariensis). The central promenade will find a group of poplars (Populus nigra), I have a lot of space around the garden, and on the other hand, rosewood. The tour will show us different examples of mulberry (Morus alba), palm trees and palms (Chamaerops humilis), pines (Pinus canariensis), pepper trees (Schinus molle) and Robin (Robinia pseudoacacia). At the other end of the gardens, just access to a private car park (with Bori Fontestà Ganduixer) on a wooden lattice s'emparra a Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata). The oleander (Nerium oleander) that grow bushy and have passed the stadium have already acquired training tree. On the north side, there is a garden area and lower triangular surface, which closes the space sheltered it from the urban bustle Here we find pines and oaks that have feet of their trunks Abel, acanthus and mastic
Art and Architecture
The subsoil of these gardens is the rainwater tank and Fontestà Bori, one of rainwater collection tanks as part of the municipal network that manages the flow of rainwater from the city. There is also a well of water catchment that feeds water resources of the neighboring Hill Park, one of the historic parks in Barcelona that is almost touching these gardens


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