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Since 1976, the residents of Guinardó have been demanding the recovery of the Torrent d'en Melis as a public garden, which was definitively inaugurated as such on 15 December 2019. This park is part of the green corridor between the Ciutadella and Collserola parks. It has 3.6 hectares and is within the Ravetllat-Pla estate. It includes urban gardens, naturalized ponds, a hundred newly planted trees and about 112,000 shrubs of 140 different species. With an investment of 8.6 million. It contains 55 benches, 40 chairs and 16 concrete stones to sit in the undergrowth. The park is the work of the architect Adolf Florensa. It maintains the noucentista style. Walls and balustrades, original rafts, pilasters and wooden pergolas have been restored. Steps and a viewpoint have been set up. Inside is a 2,500-square-foot mansion, which served as a pharmaceutical lab from the 1930s onwards. Ramon Pla i Armengol (1880-1958) together with the veterinarian Joaquim Ravetllat i Estech (1871-1923) founded the Institut Ravetllat-Pla dedicated to making anti-tuberculosis products from the blood of previously treated horses. These gardens housed the pharmaceutical laboratories where the drugs were made and the agricultural environment was adapted for the facilities of the horses. Barcelona City Council acquired the property in 2015 and ceded the use of the main building to the Ramon Pla i Armengol Foundation for a period of fifty years, the collection of furniture, sculpture, painting and jewelry can be visit for free.

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