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Font Florida Park is a place of transition between the city and built Montjuïc. This is a very large neighborhood park, much of which is protected buildings. This makes it ideal because children play quietly.

This park has the shape of a "c" elongated center which is accessed from two street Mining. What next to Plaza Park mathematics begins with a space dedicated mainly to fans of bocce. There are a lot of tracks to play them, and benches to sit and watch the games. At one end, a row of jacaranda trees adorn the place in the summer with its blue flowers.

A little further down, at the height of the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, there is another entrance. In fact, the principal. It is a large space which include hackberry and where begins the path that connects the park with the fountain Florida Street, just above the embankment, along with housing, delimits the central and largest park.

The heart of the park

It is a paved esplanade, wide and elongated. An extensive wooded square on one side of which there are benches and playground shaded by canopies of rosewood generous terms joy to contemplate, especially in summer, when they bloom. The bright yellow flowers that create a delicate drop to the floor carpet in contrast with the green of the slope there is on the front.

The slope rises recovering the profile of the mountain. It is a kind of grass-covered wall with varied plantings of trees and many shrubs with a natural treatment that recalls the garden designed by JCN Forestier in Montjuïc on the occasion of the International Exhibition of 1929 across a wide path that connects the park to the street of the same name that allows walking through the vegetation.

vegetation

If rosewood (Tipuana types) are spectacular flowering and the yellow stars of the tree-lined square, and hackberry (Celtis australis) deep green foliage of the park's main entrance, the slope they are stone pines (Pinus pinea) and Aleppo pines (Pinus halepensis) that give the lush landscaping.

The slope, too, and your shelter, there are oaks (Quercus ilex), Black Pepper trees (Schinus molle) ombu (Phytolacca dioica), poplars (Populus X canadensis) and eucalyptus (Eucalyptus camaldulensis). Below, Mediterranean shrubs such as broom (Spartium junceum) and aromatic lavender (Lavandula officinalis). Top, ornate curve that makes Font Florida Street, the jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia) surrounding space.

history

Park Fountain Florida is a good example of urban parks created in the early 1990s, who were both filling sponge Barcelona vegetation plots that regardless of their size, allowed to bring more and more public green space citizenship.

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