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INTRODUCTION
Distance: 3,630 kilometers
Technical difficulty: Low
Path: Linear
Identifying Color: BURGUNDY
Healthy Route 5 runs mainly through green areas, starting on Pintor Velázquez Street, continuing along Cantabria Street and entering Jardín de la Vega, then continuing along the pedestrian area along the Arroyo de la Vega development, crossing Avenida de Barajas and continuing along the pedestrian area along the El Juncal development, ending at Avenida Fernando Alonso.
Along the way, in addition to enjoying the different types of vegetation found in the green areas it passes through, you can visit the various unique spots dotted along the healthy route.
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1. Sculpture La Menina - Author Manolo Valdés - Salvador Allende Boulevard
The portrait of Queen Mariana is a painting that Valdés has reinterpreted numerous times throughout his career, demystifying it, taking it out of context, and offering a new, contemporary, and casual vision of an artistic icon. The monumental queen reappears simplified, reduced to her basic forms, but at the same time charged with great expressive power. Texture plays a very important role for this artist and is a point of connection between his work as a painter and as a sculptor. Once the volume is created, he looks for stains, the imperfections of the material, and highlights its cracks and imperfections. Scale also becomes an expressive resource that allows us to consider new perspectives and points of view of the work.
2. Urban Gardens
The plot is located in Arroyo de la Vega, at the confluence of Avenida de la Ermita and Avenida de la Vega, and houses 28 urban gardens ranging in size from 30 to 78 square meters. The City Council provides the successful bidders with water for irrigation, a tool shed, a changing room and materials area, as well as a perimeter fence.
The beneficiaries must grow only vegetables, flowers, and herbs in an environmentally friendly manner, without using herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers, and recycling organic waste from the plot's cultivation. Produce from the gardens may not be sold.
3. Sigaus Forest
The Sigaus Forest is located on a plot of land in the "El Juncal" residential development, measuring approximately 33,000 square meters. It has 1,000 trees planted there, including 800 Aleppo pines and 200 white maples. The Aleppo pine or white pine is the species capable of absorbing the greatest amount of CO2: up to 50 tons per year when fully grown. It is a tree with a solid, twisted trunk that can reach up to 20 meters in height. Its characteristic features are its evergreen needle-like leaves and its fruit: pine cones. It generally grows at low altitudes between sea level and 200 meters, although in southern Spain it can reach 1,000 meters. It is very rich in resin and tolerates dry conditions and high temperatures very well. The white maple is characterized by its large, palmately shaped (deciduous) leaves, divided halfway down the leaf into five ovate lobes with serrated edges. It can reach 30 meters in height, with a wide, dense, and regular crown, open branches, and smooth, grayish bark. Its fruit is the samara, a yellow-green color that blooms in autumn. It tolerates cold very well, and, if well watered, also heat. As an adult, it absorbs 478 kilograms of CO2 per year.
