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INTRODUCTION
Distance: 1.37 Kilometers
Technical difficulty: Low
Route type: line
Time: 30 minutes
A route through the urban park located in the Arroyo de la Vega area. During our tour, we'll enjoy the 110 different tree species that make up the park, as well as various cultural spaces: a Bonsai Museum, a greenhouse with a collection of circus photographs, and a place where top-level circus shows for all audiences are held. It also features interesting botanical elements such as a rose garden, an Arab garden, and a fruit orchard.
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1. Start of route
We begin our route at El Jardín de la Vega (15,000 square meters), designed with a marked educational vocation in the style of a botanical garden, with the aim of teaching respect and love for nature.
2. Rose garden
Measuring 2,072 square meters, it is located at the entrance to the park on Avenida de la Ermita and is intended to be a small-scale recreation of a rose garden with a highly geometric structure following French gardening patterns. It features an interesting collection of rosebushes grouped by color. At its center is a gazebo decorated with climbing roses.
3. Nature Classroom
Classroom with various workshops for environmental education.
4. Arab Garden
It features flowerbeds of aromatic plants and other plants used in Hispano-Arabic gardening. In the center is a fountain that distributes water in small channels that follow the four geographical directions, giving the space the murmur of water, a constant feature in gardens of this influence.
5. Pianist and muse. Sculpture
Ilya Kabakov's sculpture "Rosenthal: Pianist and Muse" is born from space, from the musicality of water, from the romantic atmosphere of the surroundings.
6. Olympic Avenue Roundabout
We arrive at the Glorieta where we find a bust of Baron Pierre Fredy de Coubertin, French pedagogue and historian, founder of the modern Olympic Games. We can also see the Olympic rings, the five rings representing the five main continents, their five colors representing the entire world.
7. Peace Bell
The Peace Bell reproduces a traditional Japanese bell, the original of which was installed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It was built in 1954 in tribute to the victims of World War II, using coins collected by children from more than 60 countries. The bell tower combines the five elements of Feng Shui: earth, fire, water, metal, and wood. The materials used are stone from the Madrid mountains and pine wood from Valsaín (Segovia).
8. Luis Vallejo Bonsai Museum
The collection contains more than 300 bonsai by Luis Vallejo, 17 of which are from the collection of the former Prime Minister, Felipe González. It is composed of native trees and those from Japan. These trees were cultivated or acquired by Luis Vallejo over more than 40 years. The collection expresses an understanding of nature, its rules, a personal way of seeing the art of bonsai that extends to the place they inhabit, from the placement of the tree, its background, the materials, the stones and sculptures that accompany them. All of this forms a unique universe, through which a sensorial journey begins, to contemplate, reflect on, and experience nature.
The center offers a wide range of courses, workshops, conferences, and event space.
9. The Weather Vane Sculpture
We leave the Bonsai Museum on our left and continue until we see the Barco de Aventuras Theme Park. We arrive at the plaza where we find the Weather Vane Sculpture, a composition of arches that lead to a metal structure crowned with a weather vane.
10. Pirate Ship
We continue the walk through the Jardín de la Vega until we reach the "Pirate Ship," a children's area whose centerpiece is a large pirate ship with capacity for 100 children. The entire area is inspired by the marine environment.
11. United Games Square
A large space offering a wide range of uses, ideal for skating, playing, and a variety of activities. Since 2017, this space has featured an active area where the "Alcobendas in Shape" activity takes place.
12. Greenhouse
Current circus school. Outside this building, you can see a permanent exhibition of professional circus images.
13. Geodetic point
These two landscaped mounds correspond to third-degree geodesic points within the town's topographic grid. Beyond this function, these unique points serve as viewing points from which to enjoy the view.
14. Fountain
Going through some flower tunnels we reach the ornamental fountain
