
The name of this park, which runs under a section of the Ronda del Litoral, the waterfall comes from a lake poured into the avenue of the same name. A whole, the waterfall and the pond, which can be seen from the little square, round and high, that is beside the water surface.
Greenways and urban roads
Both are present in this green space, the first of a series of parks that were shaking hands reaching almost Sant Adrià. Thus, just as there are trails through the vegetation, occasionally there are streets that cross.
These routes linking the Olympic Village, Barcelona is the neighborhood that was released in 1992, with the sea. A kind of reddish bricks ways that contrast with the sand that covers most of the floor.
vegetation
On both sides, delimiting the space, makes, magnificent, wide and very long of the green grass-covered beds where they grow, profuse, white pine
(Pinus halepensis), the stone pine
(Pinus pinea) and rosewood
(Tipuana types), among other tree species. In front of the parterres are benches under the canopy of plane trees
(Platanus X hispanica).
In this park there are hackberry
(Celtis australis) and cypress
(Cupressus sempervirens); jacarandas
(Jacaranda mimosifolia) in summer decorate the park with its blue flowers Lilo; poplars
(Populus alba and
Populus alba "Pyramidalis") and olive
(Olea europaea) and tall slender palm
(Washingtonia robusta). Below, groups of palms
(Chamaerops humilis) and large clumps of bushes round the gardens.
Art and Architecture
One of the defining elements of this park are its sculptures. Beside the point where it buries the Ronda Litoral in the middle of the sheet of water that is the beginning of the park, there stands a set of sculptures power of the word of Auke de Vries, gift of Netherlands in the city of Barcelona for the Olympic Games. A sort of stems that rise determined.
Amid the long walk to the Falls Park is another sculpture called the attention of the visitor. This is David and Goliath, by Antoni Llena, an immense mask, the lightness of the media, seems to be fluttering, and a white, contemplate it contrasts strongly with the blue sky.
history
Park Falls, along with the Olympic Port, the Nova Icaria, the Poblenou and Charles I, one of the five large green areas which were built on old industrial land of Poblenou at the beginning of the 1990.
Barcelona recovered this land and dedicated a part in the creation of new public green spaces. This action was part of a major urban renewal that took place in the coastline of the city for the Olympic Games 1992.
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