Parque de la Dehesa Boyal, park in Spain
Parque de la Dehesa Boyal, known as Parque de los Pinos, covers 12,700 m² in San Cristóbal, Villaverde. It has two areas: lawns and shrub beds around a large fountain, crossed by paths, and a pine grove of carrasco and piñonero pines where squirrels are often seen. The Arroyo Butarque runs through it underground.
The park opened in 1973 with a pond and a bandstand for music. It occupies 12,700 m² and preserves a 35,000 m² pine grove from the time when the land was a tree nursery. The Madrid City Council has since remodelled it, most recently under a plan running from 2006 to 2011.
The park's popular name, Parque de los Pinos, comes from the pine stand kept from its years as a tree nursery; the city opened it as a public park in 1973 with a pond and a bandstand for music. The pines now cover 35,000 m², and the last improvement plan ran from 2006 to 2011.
The park lies in San Cristóbal, between the two railway lines that bound the neighbourhood, the Carretera de Andalucía and Calle Burjasot. It is partly accessible for people with reduced mobility, and most routes and main areas can be reached. The last improvement plan ran from 2006 to 2011.
The Arroyo Butarque crosses the park, but its water now runs underground in culverts, so no surface stream is visible. The park keeps a pine grove of 35,000 m² from its years as a tree nursery; the rest was reshaped in successive renovations, the last action plan running from 2006 to 2011.
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