La Florida, Urban park in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

La Florida is an oval park of about 3.2 hectares in Vitoria-Gasteiz, laid out from 1820 and enlarged in 1855 on land from the former Santa Clara convent. Two perpendicular paths cross at a large circle holding a metal bandstand built in 1890. The quadrants are edged by low walls of carved sandstone with small crossed-rail arches.

La Florida began in 1820 as a small garden around a music kiosk, with the ring that still surrounds it. In 1855 it was substantially enlarged using land from the former Santa Clara convent. The neoclassical layout is by architects Angel Chavez, Juan De Velasco, Ramón Ortés De Velasco and Manuel Arana.

The José Ignacio de Aldecoa culture house in the park holds a library and hosts displays, storytelling sessions and other exhibitions; it is named after the novelist Ignacio Aldecoa, born in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 24 July 1925. Each Christmas season since 1962 the park has installed a monumental nativity scene with life-size figures.

The botanical route starts at the entrance by the Basque Parliament building, where a large relief tile in the ground maps the position of each tree and shrub. The 42 specimens carry limestone plaques set on concrete blocks, engraved with a number, a leaf or fruit, the scientific name and its Spanish and Basque translations.

The Wynton Marsalis statue recalls the July 2009 sessions when the trumpeter and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra recorded the twelve movements of Vitoria Suite in the hall of the Jesús Guridi Conservatory, with Paco de Lucía, Chano Domínguez and Javier Limón.