
More than a park is a great boulevard of almost 12 hectares, occupied largely by grass and trees surrounding sports facilities between Meridian Avenue and Paseo Andreu Nin.
The park was designed by Enric Pericas as a transitional space between traffic noise and silence Meridiana Sant Andreu Cemetery. It comprises four different islands, each of which has a specific function. The first two islands that are home to sports facilities. Specifically, the second is the one that contains the largest swimming pool in the city, discovered and known to the neighborhood and the lake. The third and fourth are large green spaces that make functions plaza, rest area, playground and soccer field.
art
In an intermediate area of the park there is a small hill covered with grass, which is a replica of the sculpture Olympic charioteers, Pau Gargallo, there are the Olympic Stadium.
history
The name of Can Drago is at War (1714), when a company of the Bourbon troops, known as dragons, settled in the house at that time ruled the area.
vegetation
The wooded part of the landscape along this boulevard include linden
(Tilia x
euchlora), poplars
(Populus nigra), Robin
(Robinia pseudoacacia), hackberry
(Celtis australis), plane
(Platanus x
hispanica) and eucalyptus
(Eucalyptus globulus).
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