Parque Coll, Recreation park in La Serena, Chile.
Parque Coll is a recreation park in La Serena located between Colina del Pino and Avenida 18 de Septiembre, containing walking paths, green areas, and natural streams across its grounds. The space includes sports fields, children's playgrounds, barbecue areas, and numerous trails suitable for walking or cycling.
In 1950 Alfonso, Fernando, Anita and Gabriel Coll Juliá transferred the land to the Chilean state as a public forest and park, honouring their father Gabriel Coll Dalmau; the lawyer and politician Hugo Zepeda Barrios, his son-in-law, took part in the transfer. As part of the Plan Serena, landscape architect Óscar Prager planned and planted the park, which held its own water rights. In 2013 football pitches were added using turf taken from the Estadio La Portada, and fires damaged wooded areas on 5 and 6 February 2016.
The park's name honours Gabriel Coll Dalmau, to whose memory his children Alfonso, Fernando, Anita and Gabriel Coll Juliá donated the land in 1950. The lawyer and politician Hugo Zepeda Barrios, Coll Dalmau's son-in-law, took part in the transfer to the Chilean state for a public forest and park.
The park is best explored on foot or by bicycle, as the many paths provide plenty of options for visiting different areas. The barbecue areas and playgrounds are easily accessible for families, and the space is most pleasant to visit during daylight hours.
The park once had a medialuna, a crescent-shaped rodeo arena, where qualifiers for the National Rodeo Championship and rodeos were held. In 2013 its football pitches were laid with turf taken from La Portada Stadium, demolished and rebuilt for the 2015 Copa América.
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