Last updated on 26 February 08
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Parque Juan Carlos I

2.3/5 (6 ratings)

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Opened in 1992, the park is located between Madrid's Barajas Airport and its Trade Fair site. It has some interesting and dramatic individual features. But the overall spatial design is so bad that one can hardly say it exists. The main structuring element is an almost-useless ring-road: no one could want to walk round it; the drainage gratings would make it a hazard for cyclists; the bridges are too narrow for cars. Overall, the design seems more suited to a North European garden festival. Nothing has been learned from the long tradition of relating park and garden and design to the unique landscape of Central Spain. Rainfall is low; winters are long and cold; summers are short and hot; the design is awful.

Address - Parque Juan Carlos I, Madrid, Spain
Website - Visit the Parque Juan Carlos I website

Local Hotels

Hotels within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

Novotel Campo De Las Naciones (0km away)
From €48.67 to €210.00
Pullman Madrid Airport & Feria (0km away)
From €70.00 to €230.00
Tryp Diana (1km away)
From €46.27 to €162.00
Melia Barajas (1km away)
From €68.00 to €299.00
Tryp Alameda Aeropuerto (1km away)
From €49.00 to €216.00
Osuna (1km away)
From €39.24 to €432.00
NH Barajas (1km away)
From €52.70 to €88.00
Hilton Madrid Airport (1km away)
From €99.00 to €394.00

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Madrid Botanical Garden (Real Jardin Botanico) (8km away)
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Plaza Major, Madrid (8km away)
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Campo del Moro (9km away)
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Reviews and Comments

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about 1 year ago Anonymous said
Response to Harry:
This park is not disappointing, just have to spend a weekend and see the vast amount of people who enjoy the sources, lending bicycles, its green meadows, and so on. Who has cheated?

(5.0/5)
over 1 year ago Harry said
Please can someone tell me of a modern park somewhere in Europe which is more disappointing than Parque Juan Carlos I

(1.0/5)
over 1 year ago Teodoro Lobato Delgado said
I believe that the one who has described this park has not had the pleasure of visiting it. It is a great museum outdoors. A park where to find agreeable corners where to rest or diverse milestones where to contemplate the panoramic one of Madrid from a privileged point, design that mixes urban plots and vegetation. It is a modern park, not comparable with any different one, and suitablly for all kinds of cultural, sports or playful activities. Do not be left to be deceptive for whom it does not see beyond his noses, and he does not conceive the parks in his environment and with his own tour, still not being historical or only leafy. To open the mind and to come to enjoy a park for all the senses.

(5.0/5)
over 1 year ago Anonymous said
I invite you to visit this garden and to discover how much the article is wrong.

(1.0/5)
over 2 years ago Tom said
I am sorry to hear that Parque Juan Carlos I has not improved - and wonder if it should be excluded from 'Christendom'? It is a godless place and many of the Brutalist features have military overtones.

(1.0/5)

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