Parque Genovés, Botanical park in central Cádiz, Spain.
Parque Genovés is a botanical park in central Cádiz featuring shaped cypress trees, date palms, and about 150 plant species arranged throughout carefully designed garden sections. The grounds include water features such as fountains, a waterfall, a lake, and an outdoor theater spread across the space.
The park underwent major renovation in 1892 under Mayor Eduardo Genovés i Puig, who added fountains, a waterfall, a lake, and an outdoor theater to transform the space. This redesign established the garden layout that remains the foundation for the park today.
The park holds monuments honoring the botanist José Celestino Mutis and composer Manuel de Falla, reflecting the city's intellectual and artistic legacy that visitors can explore as they walk through the grounds.
The park is open to visitors daily, with access points from several surrounding streets making it easy to enter from different directions. Walking shoes are useful as the terrain includes pathways, planted areas, and lakeside routes that vary in surface and shade coverage.
Among the garden's plant collection stands a Dragon tree over a century old and a thorny Palo Borracho with a distinctive bottle-shaped trunk that catch visitors' attention. These striking specimens offer a memorable visual contrast to the more traditional landscaping elsewhere in the grounds.
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