Parque Genovés, Botanical park in Cádiz, Spain

Parque Genovés is a historic garden by the sea in Cádiz's old town, roughly trapezoidal and bordered by the Parador Atlántico, Paseo de Santa Bárbara, Avenida Duque de Nájera and Plaza Rocío Jurado. Its main entrance opens onto a central avenue split into three walks by double rows of symmetrical beds, with common cypresses at the corners, a Monterey cypress in the centre and date palms between them. The rest is asymmetrical, with irregular paths and over 100 species of trees and shrubs.

The garden began at the end of the 18th century as a bare, poorly kept promenade known as the Paseo del Perejil, between the Camposanto and Bomba barracks and the sea wall. From 1854 it was enlarged and renamed Paseo de las Delicias, partly to give work to people left needy by the cholera epidemic. In 1892 mayor Eduardo José Genovés i Puig remodelled it, adding the Bosque del Ejército, fountains, a waterfall with lake, a concert hall and a café.

The main entrance opens from Plaza Rocío Jurado onto a central avenue split into three lanes by double rows of symmetrically clipped common cypresses, with a California cypress at the centre and date palms between them. The rest of the grounds is deliberately asymmetric, with irregular paths and beds. A plaque bearing the coat of arms of Cádiz, set in the outer wall by the main gate on Paseo de Santa Bárbara, is the only surviving fragment of Mariano Benlliure's fountain Los niños meones, which vanished from the park in the mid-1970s.

The main entrance is on Plaza Rocío Jurado, opening onto a wide central avenue split into three lanes by double rows of symmetrical beds. The rest of the grounds is asymmetrical, with irregular paths, so allow time to wander. The park borders the Parador Nacional Atlántico, Paseo de Santa Bárbara and Avenida Duque de Nájera.

The wall by the main gate on Paseo de Santa Bárbara keeps a plaque with the coat of arms of Cádiz, the only surviving piece of Mariano Benlliure's fountain Los niños meones, which vanished from the park under unclear circumstances in the mid-1970s.