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Park St. Andrew Driver

This park is a large open yard and exceptionally rich in trees. A large green space, quiet and neat, which is therefore not a place to stay as residents of the neighborhood where it is located: the Good Shepherd.

Despite being an open park, somehow there is a main entrance located at the corner of streets bounded by Ferran Adria and San JUNOY. From this point you can see all the space as a whole. It's worth it to appreciate the simplicity and harmony of the distribution of the two areas in which it is divided.

They are separated by a large stretch paved with reddish tiles with large lawns overflowing with trees on both sides. In the center, dividing and organizing the structure of the park, there is a great body of water in the shape of an elongated orange segments. Narcissus Monturiol pond is built on the existence of two water mines, and its function are landscaping adds water supply for the irrigation network.

vegetation

One of the highlights of this park is the large amount of trees that contains: about 270. Many were planted in the first third of the twentieth century, so many copies have exceptional dimensions.

There are oaks (Quercus ilex), olive (Olea europaea), oak (Quercus pubescens), cypress (Cupressus semprevirens) and poplars (Populus alba). One of the areas of stay enjoying the shade of rosewood (Tipuana types) and copies towering white pine (Pinus halepensis). At the front, the other part of your stay, the protagonists are bananas (Platanus X hispanica) and a large ailanthus (Ailantus altissima).

Near the lake are two huge groups of yucca (Yucca elephantipes), large (Chamaerops humilis) and a few honey locusts (Gleditsia triacanthos) and next to the playground, hanging from the branches of fainting ( Salix babylonica).

Art and Architecture

Along with the original design of lighting lamps that cross the center of the park from end to end, one end of the pool of Narcissus Monturiol limits with a metal construction that recreates the shape of a boat "bow "sharp. In the "stern", the pond and into the water, a large conference reminds us of the industrial past of the lands that are now a park. The building is the Museum of The Machinist and Macosa and contains historical documents, maps, photographs, models and historical objects of the company.

history

Park Machinist St. Andrew, which was conceived as a backbone between the districts of Sant Andreu and Bon Pastor, is located on land formerly occupied by the factory Machinist Land and Maritime, a company of construction machines train was founded in 1855. the first production facility was located in Barceloneta. In 1920 he moved to St. Andrew, and here, in Mogoda in 1993. This company was involved in building the Station of France and the San Antonio market, both with an iron structure wrought.

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