Park el Clot, Public park in El Clot neighborhood, Barcelona, Spain.
Park el Clot is a public green space in Barcelona's El Clot neighborhood, spread across four hectares. The site features distinctive double archways converted into aqueducts with water flowing down their outer walls.
The park opened in 1986, built on the grounds of an abandoned railway workshop that had sat unused for years. This conversion of former industrial land into public recreation marked a turning point for the neighborhood.
The bronze sculpture Rites of Spring (1986) by the American artist Bryan Hunt stands four metres tall inside a small pond, within a loggia built from masonry arches and iron columns of the old RENFE workshop. It depicts a waterfall, echoing the cascade of the nearby aqueduct.
The park lies below street level, reached by stairs from Carrer dels Escultors Claperós; a brick chimney kept from the old workshops is visible from every point. A stairway behind the artificial hill leads up to Plaça de Valentí Almirall, where the former Sant Martí town hall and its clock tower stand. The grounds hold a sports area, a children's playground, petanque courts and a lake.
The park's horizontal layout is broken by an artificial hill built from earth excavated to create the lower square. Behind it stands a section of a former workshop nave with brick vaults on cast-iron columns, and a brick chimney preserved on the stairs is visible from every point of the park.
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