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Parks
and Gardens
El Retiro Jardín Botánico - Botanical gardens Parque del Oeste Campo del Moro Jardines de Sabatini Alameda de Osuna Parque Juan Carlos I - Juan Carlos I Park Parque de la Arganzuela - Arganzuela Park Parque Tierno Galván - Tierno Galván Park Monte de El Pardo |
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de Campo Metro: Lago, Batán |
Open: 10.00-14.00 / 16.30-20.30 Their
1800 hectares and their vicinity to Madrid have made of the Casa de Campo
the main lung of the city. It was created in 1560 by Felipe II, like hunt
place, and in 1931 public became, being today one of the places preferred
by the from Madrid ones for the rest and entertainment. It conserves their
mount characteristics, arboreal species and vegetables as oaks, chestnut
trees, bananas, ash-trees, sallows, etc. You can row in the artificial
lake and to take later, a drink in anyone of the multiple "chiringuitos"
while one enjoys one of the best views in the profile of Madrid. A special form of arriving at the park is taking the cable car (Teleférico) that you leave at Rosales and it offers from the sky an unique image of this part of the city. |
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| El
Retiro Metro: Retiro, Príncipe de Vargara, Ibiza, Atocha Zone: Retiro Map: O-8 |
 A
stroll through Madrid's most famous park, which located just behind the
Prado museum, is an ideal way to finish (or for that matter start) any day
in Madrid. The large Park was originally built as the gardens for the Palacio
del Buen Retiro of Philip IV, in the 15th century but has been open
to the public since the end of the 1800's. Among other attractions the gardens
houses some 15000 trees, a working observatory, three exhibition halls,
including which the Palacio de Cristal a building entirely built
of glass and a lake, (shown in the picture).
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| Jardín
Botánico Paseo del Prado, (Pza. Murillo) Tel: 91 420 30 17 Metro: Atocha Zone: Prado Map: L16 |
Open:
10.00 - 21.00. Admission: 200 ptas Created by Juan de Villanueva for the king Carlos III in 1781. More than 30.000 plants from the whole world. |
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| Parque
del Oeste Plaza de la Moncloa, Metro: Moncloa Zone: Moncloa- Argüelles Templo
de Debod |
 Designed
in 1900 by the landscape gardener Cecilio Rodríguez. "La Rosaleda",
the rose garden is particularly beatiful .The "Templo de Debod", close to the Plaza de España (A-3) is a Egyptian temple from the 4th century before Christ, that was a present from Egypt to the General Franco, because of the Aswan Dam. |
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| Campo
del Moro Paseo Virgen del Puerto, s/n Metro: Príncipe Pío Zone: Opera Map: A-10 Jardines
de Sabatini |
If
the Field of the Moor is located in the facade west of the Palace, the
Gardens of Sabatini are toward the North, bordering with the Cuesta de
la Vega and the BailŽn street. They are of classic style and around 1930.
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| Alameda
de Osuna Avenida de la Alameda de Osuna Avenida de Logroño Metro: Canillejas |
Known garden as The Whim, it has been of private property until the years 80, and it is a garden of 1783 that harmonizes the French layouts, Italian and landscape. There is a labyrinth, parterre, a lake and creek, and a group of beautiful constructions. Regrettably it is a little far from the tourist routes, that makes him to be not very well-known. | |
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| Parque
Juan Carlos I Gran Vía de Hortaleza (junto a M-40) Metro: Campo de las Naciones |
Between Barajas and the Osuna Alameda, today it is known to have the Enclosure Ferial of Ifema, where they take place the most important international and national fairs. It is a recent construcci—n, y it has among other things big traados viales, gardens monotem‡ticos, sculptures of the XX century, hint of bicycles. and the Garden of the Three Cultures: bean, Muslim and crsitiana, main relating cultural in Spain. | |
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| Parque
de la Arganzuela Paseo de la Chopera Metro: Legazpi |
Remodeled in the years
90, it was enlarged with the old Municipal Slaughterhouse, and it transformed
their Palace of Glass in a hothouse that maintains some 9.000 tropical
species under a microclima. |
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| Parque
de Tierno Galván Calle Meneses Metro:: Méndez Alvaro Bus: 148 |
On the edge of the M-30, very near the South Station of Buses (Estación Sur de Autobuses) , when Enrique Tierno Galv‡n was mayor from Madrid, it was decided to locate the Planetarium and to landscape an area until then well-known as the Hill of the Silver, due to the cinder residuals coming from the trains of the near ones you park Atocha and Delicias. Died Tierno, they named on their memory to the park that is another of the main green spaces of the city. They are also in their enclosure, the cinema room IMAX, and the spanish champion's of motociclismo museum Angel Nieto. |
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| Monte
de El Pardo Ctra. A Coruña, (N-VI), desvío km.7 |
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It
was not called Campo del Moro until the XIX century, and was beacuse in
these lands between the river and the Real Fortress, the hosts muslim
camped during their stay in the village.