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Can Fabra Square occupies part of the land of the former spinning mill Fabra i Coats, the surviving building converted into a central library Ignasi Iglesias. The recovery of public space arose from an initiative by the Sant Andreu neighborhood. In 1989 began the first plantations. The garden adjacent to the street Dr. Balari, Cyber ​​Source and hard square surrounding it was finished in 1995. Later he completed the landscaping of the back of the library in 2000. The result is the creation of two distinct areas in its distribution and geometry.
Before the library is a paved square and a sheet of water. On one side with a green garden district will. It is a sheltered corner of the road traffic, with a shaded area and stay. Behind the library is a second garden area.
Segre accessed from the street by a reddish concrete pavement with a row of hackberry (Celtis australis) on both sides. On the left are the entrances to the library right hand and a bullet-shaped sheltered garden with a pond oval cross a wooden bridge Chinese. Inside the small pond grow three specimens of bald cypress or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). During the autumn, the leaves take reddish before falling. It grows in areas with lakes, ie lakes, ponds, marshes and wetlands. It is therefore natural to find it in the water showing their aerial roots that stick to the surface to capture oxygen.

Although the lake is surrounded by trees and bushes of a mixture of persistent plant forms a lush Mediterranean undergrowth. This undergrowth acts as cushioning the slurry wall street traffic Segre. We find stone pines (Pinus pinea) cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) oak (Quercus ilex) an elm (Ulmus pumila) and hackberry (Celtis australis). In the undergrowth note strawberry cherry trees (Arbutus unedo) that almost crossed the threshold bush to tree, like a large viburnum (Virburnum tinus), feijoa (feijoa) along with Japanese Privet (Ligustrum lucidum) and buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus). The space surrounded by banks, is a true island of tranquility.
The second garden area was born the project of remodeling of the library and is the counterpoint to the first garden more naturalized. The part closest to the building is paved with cobblestones. These were generated geometric parterres, ramps, creating circuits step towards the rest of the space paved with gravel. These geometric parterres find cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), laurel (Laurus nobilis) and reflects Eleagnus pungens pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira). Throughout the area there are numerous examples of poplar (Populus nigra) - in groups or disorderly afilerats- pines (Pinus pinea), rosewood (Tipuana types). In parallel with the boundary with Otger street, the park presents a linear set of banks with a soft flooring which give a group of rosewood shade. Here begins a series of pergolas, with a total of five sections, where they grow different types of vines. Until the second section there is, however, no species grafted, is a pink Bignon (Podranea ricasoliana). In the third, we wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) combined with roses. Pink banksiae find the fourth and the fifth section, which is oriented towards Carrer de Sant Adrià, again there Bignon dew.
The third and final area is the sheet of water, surrounded by lawns, the cybernetic fountain. This large ornamental fountain was designed by Ramon Llopart. It is a musical fountain with parabolic springs and vertical curtains that generate liquid form figures. Electronically controlled the flow of water, music and light to generate synchronized choreography.

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