San Jerónimo Park, Urban park in northern Seville, Spain.
San Jerónimo Park is a triangular green space in northern Seville, bounded by the Guadalquivir canal, the SE-20 ring road and José Galán Merino street. Its main promenade is lined with bitter orange trees, ashes and a Pyracantha hedge, leading to a circular plaza with the Columbus monument. The park continues south to the riverside promenade of Calle Torneo.
The park occupies ground used as a nursery for the 1992 Seville World Exposition, where 21 Ibero-American countries in the Raíces programme acclimatised 505 plant varieties before transplanting them to the Expo site. It opened to the public in October 1995 on 148,677 m². A 1999 project brought new landscaping, and from 2006 the concrete wall along the canal was removed and replaced by meadows and yellow asphalt paths.
The park, the meander and the neighbourhood take their name from the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Buenavista, founded in the 15th century; its ruins can be seen from the park. Near the north end, the Huertos de Ocio are plots farmed organically by local residents.
The park forms a narrow triangle between the Guadalquivir canal, the SE-20 ring road and José Galán Merino street. From the canal-side path, a yellow asphalt trail leads 8 km south to the Puente de las Delicias. A footbridge at the northern end connects to the Alamillo park.
Huertos de Ocio are small vegetable gardens where local residents grow and tend their own plants within the park. These active gardens show how the community uses the space not just for walking, but as a productive communal space.
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