Parks and Gardens in Valencia

 

“Parks and Gardens in Valencia”

Maybe, during the stay in the city of Valencia, you do not have time or do not want to see monuments but you can walk and take a little pulse to the city.

The Jardines del Real (commonly called Los Viveros), the Alameda, Glorieta, El Parterre, the Garden of Monforte, the Botanical Garden are the most appreciated green spots for the antiquity of many of their specimens, already centenarians their variety and exoticism.

La Glorieta, with the next Parterre, is a quiet place in the heart of the city.

In the angle formed by these two gardens, you can admire the Palace of Justice, severe neoclassical building, with the coat of arms of Carlos III and the group, sculptural, which tops the facade representing this monarch, between Justice and Prudence. Its author is Ignacio Vergara.

In the center of the Parterre you can admire the equestrian statue of King Jaime I who conquered Valencia. It was placed in 1891.

Crossing the Puente del Real, you reach the Alameda, a stately walk flanked by the river, beautiful trees and fountains. It dates from the sixteenth century and then was called El Prado, the current name is from the late eighteenth.

It consists of a central road for vehicles and two landscaped side. Two nineteenth-century fountains of stone and iron are found at the ends of this walk.

In Los Viveros Municipales, in addition to plants and flowers, there is a lake with ducks and swans, fountains, quiet corners, where you can walk or play, without the problems of traffic.

Statues and architectural remains of buildings that have already disappeared can be found in the middle of the vegetation.

 

 

In the vicinity of Los Viveros, in the Plaza of the Spanish Legion, are the Gardens of Monforte. It was laid out in the nineteenth century, following a neoclassical model, in addition to the elegant distribution of plants and flowers, it has a staircase, stately, sculptures, fountains and a recreational pavilion.

The visit is free.

 

The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia has an important botanical collection, with some three thousand species of trees and plants from five continents, highlighting the collection of palms and tropical trees or the cactus and other plants of the desert.

This botanical garden has its origin in a garden for the teaching of botany that was created during the sixteenth century, although we do not know its original location. In the 18th century, with the arrival of Enlightenment ideas and the support of certain organizations such as the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the new garden was installed, more adapted to scientific advances, in the so-called Tramoyeres orchard, outside the street of Quart. (web)

The Garden of the Hesperides

In the street of Blessed Gaspar Bono, very close to the Botanical Garden, of which it will be part if the planned extension is finally made, since 2000 this interesting garden has been found, with a mythological aura in which the nymphs, instead of keeping Golden apples, take care of the Valencian citrus gilds.

Up to 50 varieties of them, represented (citron, lemon, mandarin, sweet orange, bitter, grapefruit, etc.), together with a varied vegetation of shrubs and trees and mythological sculptures, turn this space into an unexpected surprise.

Schedule:
Spring and Summer: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Autumn and Winter: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The sculptures are by the Hungarian Miklos Palfy

Other landscaped spaces in the city of Valencia are:

The Garden of Ayora

In which is an interesting mansion and that is in the vicinity of the Avenida de Blasco Ibañez.
The building was commissioned by the merchant José Ayora in the year 1900. The building has, in tune with the date of its construction, a marked modernist character, with a mixture of classicist style and a combination of different materials in its walls, which They give some polychromy.

In which is an interesting mansion and that is in the vicinity of the Avenida de Blasco Ibañez.

The building was commissioned by the merchant José Ayora in the year 1900. The building has, in tune with the date of its construction, a marked modernist character, with a mix of classicist style and a combination of different materials in its walls, which They give some polychromy.

The Polyphile Garden

Between the streets Camp de Turia, Marina Alta, Canal de Navarrés and Marina Baixa, next to the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital and the Palace of Congresses. It has an area of ​​almost 40,000 square meters, was built in 1999 under the inspiration of Francesco de Colonna’s book “Dream of Polifilo”. The octagonal park has walks and grass areas for recreation.

It has several important points: “El Estanque de los Naranjos” water surface dotted with trees. In the center that is accessed by a footbridge, there is an island covered with a pergola of rose bushes.
The third point is the “Sacred Mountain” from where the whole park is dominated.

And we finish with “The Guardian of the orchards”, in a depression of the park where the orange grove is recreated that existed before being the garden that it is today.

It is a fenced garden, free access and can be visited from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in autumn-winter and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in spring-summer.

Bus 62, leads to the door.

The Header Park

Located on the historic bed of the Turia River, Cabecera Park extends the large green belt of the old channel, the park / garden of the Turia. Thus fulfilling part of the project that will unify the natural branch of the Turia with the artificial one restoring the original and vertebrador character of the river.
This metropolitan park recreates the original landscape of the Turia giving prominence to the water, which with its discourse is presenting the topography, vegetation, routes and the different facilities of the park.

 

The Benicalap Park

In 1983 this park was inaugurated, occupying a total area of ​​80,000 square meters, located in former orange groves in the neighborhood of Benicalap between Burjasot Avenue, Luis Braile Street and Francisco Morote Greus Street.

The West Park

The Parque del Oeste has accesses through the Avenida del Cid, through Enguera street and through Calle Músico Ayllón.

Your access is free

Schedule:Spring-summer (March 21 to September 20): From 09.00 to 20.00 hours
Autumn-winter (September 21 to March 20): From 09:00 to 19:00

The garden currently has an area of ​​43,750 square meters, after the expansion by the adjoining spaces next to the avenue del Cid.

Built on the grounds of the former Army of the Air barracks, the West Park was inaugurated in April 1995.
This garden has an evidently urban character that attracts all the neighbors of the area.

The Gran Vía Marques del Turia, at the end of which, is the magnificent monument and fountain, dedicated to the Marquis of Campo, work of Mariano Benlliure.

The Avenue of the Kingdom adorned with palm trees, where the monument to Maestro Serrano, the most popular of the Valencian composers, is made by Octavio Vicent.

The Turia River, after the floods of 1957, was diverted and its channel has become a place of recreation and modernity with sports fields, gardens and the buildings of the “City of Sciences”, which make up a striking whole.

The “City of Science” was designed by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava and inaugurated in April 1998, in addition to the Hemispheric, the Palace of Arts, the Umbrace, the Agora and the Prince Felipe Museum, is the Oceanogràfic, which It is one of the most important aquariums in Europe because it represents the main marine ecosystems of the planet. The “Submarino Restaurant” stands out for the spectacular decks designed by Felix Candela. The Oceanogràfic offers a large number of activities for the public: sleeping with sharks or knowing belugas and sea lions provided by the activity “Passport Animalia”.