Parc de la Creueta del Coll

Pg. Mare de Déu del Coll, 77
Gràcia
08023
Barcelona

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Latitude: 2.1482518
Longitude: 41.4187361



  • Park or public garden
  • Park or forest or garden asilvestrado
  • Panoramic view
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Creueta Coll is a secluded park with a large lake in summer becomes a public swimming pool, a huge 6,000 square m2 and ample space to relax under the shade of the acacia trees. This is why it has become one of the meeting places and leisure activities in the neighborhood is located.


Places to stay and recreation
If the benches around the large square are an ideal place to have a good time, above the pond there is a bleachers from which you can see everything that happens inside and outside the 'water. A little further up there are two long terraces shaded by acacias. To the right of the second terrace, a ramp leads to two bowling alleys. The paths go up in the middle of lush vegetation of trees and shrubs. Above all, already in the forest part of the park, you come to a picnic area. It is a small quiet esplanade, with tables, benches and a fountain, which is adorned by the greenery of the pines on one side, and the vegetation that has grown and that colors the walls of the old quarry of the Coll in the another. It is complemented by a remarkable view of Barcelona. Hill up Above all the stone walls, today colonized by Mediterranean shrubs, among which the broom stands out, there is a wooden railing that delimits the space of the park and separates it from the forest slope of the Coll hill, facing the mountain range. of Collserola. A small path allows you to go along the top of the quarry. It can be accessed from Passatge de Manlleu. When we return, if we prefer to go down this side of the hill, we will reach the Taxonera district, already in the Horta-Guinardó district.


Vegetation
Along with the acacias in the rest areas, and the pine forest and Mediterranean shrubs in the picnic area, in the Creueta del Coll park, the palm trees on the island that goes into it stand out. inside the sheet of water in the Creueta del Coll park. Due to its rarity, it is worth noting a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) with two stipules. There is a mastic listed as a tree of local interest. The wild part of the park includes beehives (Hyparrhenia hirta), which is a priority habitat for the EU. Art and architecture If we access it through the main entrance -on Avinguda de la Mare de Déu del Coll, right next to Carrer de Castellterçol-, we find an iron monolith, tall and slender. This is the Sculpture, by Ellsworth Kelly. At the bottom of the pool, in a much smaller and slightly elevated sheet of water, located between the walls of the old quarry and a concrete wall, we find one of the most precious elements of this park, the 'Praise of water, a colossal sculpture by Eduardo Chillida made of concrete and weighing over 50 tons. Suspended on the water, it is supported by four steel cables anchored to the rock, which gives the huge sculpture the appearance of a surprising lightness. History The Creueta del Coll park is the result of the use of a space that for many years was dedicated to an activity very different from the current one. This is the old Coll quarry, located at the foot of one of the hills that make up the upper part of Barcelona. This origin is what gives character and a strong personality to this green space. More information in The Atlas of Biodiversity

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Parc de la Creueta del Coll

Pg. Mare de Déu del Coll, 77
Gràcia / El Coll
08023 - Barcelona
 http://www.barcelona.cat/ca/que-pots-fer-a-bcn/parcs-i-jardins/parc-de-la-creueta-del-coll_92086020872.html
Creueta Coll is a secluded park with a large lake in summer becomes a public swimming pool, a huge 6,000 square m2 and ample space to relax under the shade of the acacia trees. This is why it has become one of the meeting places and leisure activities in the neighborhood is located.


Places to stay and recreation
If the benches around the large square are an ideal place to have a good time, above the pond there is a bleachers from which you can see everything that happens inside and outside the 'water. A little further up there are two long terraces shaded by acacias. To the right of the second terrace, a ramp leads to two bowling alleys. The paths go up in the middle of lush vegetation of trees and shrubs. Above all, already in the forest part of the park, you come to a picnic area. It is a small quiet esplanade, with tables, benches and a fountain, which is adorned by the greenery of the pines on one side, and the vegetation that has grown and that colors the walls of the old quarry of the Coll in the another. It is complemented by a remarkable view of Barcelona. Hill up Above all the stone walls, today colonized by Mediterranean shrubs, among which the broom stands out, there is a wooden railing that delimits the space of the park and separates it from the forest slope of the Coll hill, facing the mountain range. of Collserola. A small path allows you to go along the top of the quarry. It can be accessed from Passatge de Manlleu. When we return, if we prefer to go down this side of the hill, we will reach the Taxonera district, already in the Horta-Guinardó district.


Vegetation
Along with the acacias in the rest areas, and the pine forest and Mediterranean shrubs in the picnic area, in the Creueta del Coll park, the palm trees on the island that goes into it stand out. inside the sheet of water in the Creueta del Coll park. Due to its rarity, it is worth noting a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) with two stipules. There is a mastic listed as a tree of local interest. The wild part of the park includes beehives (Hyparrhenia hirta), which is a priority habitat for the EU. Art and architecture If we access it through the main entrance -on Avinguda de la Mare de Déu del Coll, right next to Carrer de Castellterçol-, we find an iron monolith, tall and slender. This is the Sculpture, by Ellsworth Kelly. At the bottom of the pool, in a much smaller and slightly elevated sheet of water, located between the walls of the old quarry and a concrete wall, we find one of the most precious elements of this park, the 'Praise of water, a colossal sculpture by Eduardo Chillida made of concrete and weighing over 50 tons. Suspended on the water, it is supported by four steel cables anchored to the rock, which gives the huge sculpture the appearance of a surprising lightness. History The Creueta del Coll park is the result of the use of a space that for many years was dedicated to an activity very different from the current one. This is the old Coll quarry, located at the foot of one of the hills that make up the upper part of Barcelona. This origin is what gives character and a strong personality to this green space. More information in The Atlas of Biodiversity

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