Jardí de la Fundació Julio Muñoz Ramonet, Urban park in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Spain.
The Jardí de la Fundació Julio Muñoz Ramonet is an urban park in Barcelona with tree-lined paths, native plants, and a rectangular pond with a fountain. The grounds cover several thousand square meters and offer different areas to explore and spend time.
Ferran Fabra i Puig, second Marquis of Alella and Barcelona mayor from 1922 to 1923, bought the Can Fabra estate and in 1916 commissioned the garden from French landscaper Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, who introduced the Mediterranean garden style to Spain. The main house, a noucentista building by Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia, followed in 1917. In 1945 textile businessman Julio Muñoz Ramonet acquired the estate and had Joan Mirambell i Ferran remodel the garden between 1956 and 1957. Muñoz Ramonet bequeathed the property to Barcelona on his death in 1991, but a 15-year legal dispute delayed the municipal ownership recognised in 2013; the restored garden opened to the public in 2016.
The garden is also called jardí de Can Fabra, after the estate Fernando Fabra i Puig, second Marquis of Alella and Barcelona mayor from 1922 to 1923, bought and built up. He commissioned the 1916 design from French landscaper Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, who introduced the "Mediterranean garden" to Spain. Visitors today see Forestier's terraced layout reworked by Joan Mirambell i Ferran in 1956-1957.
The grounds are open daily for visitors to walk through and spend time in the garden areas. You can take your time exploring the different sections and following the paths that wind through the trees.
The upper garden's lily pond was originally the tower's swimming pool, installed when Joan Mirambell i Ferran remodelled the grounds between 1956 and 1957; he also reoriented the pond and moved the pergola. Six sculptures on pedestals line the two parallel pergolas beside it, five by Josep Dunyach and one by Vicenç Navarro.
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