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When the park Castle Swallow's worth planning a whole day out festive. It is a trip in a forest in the city, where there are municipal intervention improved the road network, there has rest areas and children's play areas, the largest with ping-pong.
Another highlight are the picnic areas, especially there in the top of the park. The tables enjoying the shade of a large carob, and you can enjoy an exceptional panoramic view of Barcelona from Sant Adria de Besos to Prat de Llobregat. There is a bar where they roast chicken, among other foods. Next to the park is public pools Can Caralleu perfect for a summer day round.
The train and the ponies
Two of the main attractions of this park are traveling in wagons mounted a miniature train and the children, pony rides. The Castle Swallow the railways is one of the best miniature manned and Europe.
Opened in 1981, over a distance of 636 m with three gauges between 5 and 10 inches, the train passes through three tunnels, two bridges and a viaduct cash. It also has a season and a halt. It has 12 locomotives, including electricity, steam and diesel engines, and 12 carriages.
On Sundays, visitors to the park can travel on this train from eleven in the morning until two in the afternoon. All this is possible thanks to partners Study Center-Model Steam Barcelona and Sabadell.
vegetation
The park of the castle Swallow preserved almost intact its original vegetation of Mediterranean type, with species very characteristic of the Barcelona mountains. The vegetation is, in fact, its main attraction, which forms a surprising space in the city.
There are pines and stone pines, oaks, surrounded of a rich understory shrubs such as broom, boxwood, yarrow, strawberry tree and mastic. These last two species, there are ancient trees. There are also many herbs, such as thyme, laurel and lavender. The presence of orange nisperos, almond, olive and some pomegranate remind us of the agricultural past of much of this place.
Over the years, the park Castle Swallow the new species have been planted, such as eucalyptus, cypress, cedar and hackberry, which have contributed to the foliage that characterizes it.
trees cataloged
In this park there are two trees for its uniqueness, have become part of the catalog of trees of local interest in Barcelona: find a huge eucalyptus, with the city at your feet in one of the corners of the road named this species of tree, a cherry tree and Santa Lucia near the stables for ponies.
Art and Architecture
At the highest levels of the current park was built in 1910, a castle which was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, and which are still in a tower, a scale and some walls.
Scattered between the forest there is an ornamental fountain dated 1863, and a former era, a laundry room and half buried irrigation systems that remind us of the agricultural past of the area.
history
The park of the castle Swallow is located on land formerly occupied by two properties: the farmhouse of Can Bonavia, the family of Count Milà, and Oreneta Castle, the family Tous, who construir- there is the castle that gives the park its name.
For many years, the land was owned by the Red Cross, who wanted to build a hospital, a project that finally was not carried out. This is why the space was closed and isolated from the city, until it was acquired by the city of Barcelona, ​​which opened to the public as a park in 1978.

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