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Badalona

Country:
Spain
State:
Comunidad Autonoma de Cataluna
City:
Badalona
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By air

The Prat Airport ,The airport is twenty minutes by car from the Ronda Litoral.

By road

Direct access to the motorway C-31 (Barcelona-Palafolls), with the round B20 (Barcelona-Conrería), with the main road N II (Madrid-Barcelona-France), and local roads in Badalona Mollet and Montcada i Reixac Badalona.

By bus

There is a bus network operated by the company TUSGSAL, with a fleet of 120 buses with an average age of 7 years but if we consider the regular lines is the average life of less than 5 years.
 

Key places to visit
Olympic Pavilion of Badalona, Can Solei Park, Ca l'Arnus Park, Turo d'en Park Caritg, Geology, Montigala Park, New Lloreda Park, Barriga Home Park

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Places to Visit

Olympic Pavilion of Badalona

The Olympic Pavilion of Badalona, also known as the Palacio Municipal de Deportes de Badalona (in Catalan, Palau and Palau Olimpic de Badalona Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, respectively) is a sports facility in Badalona devoted specifically to matches to be played in basketball . Was the installation in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where he made the basketball competition, now is the site where it plays its home matches the Club Joventut Badalona . It was designed by the architects Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius, who won the 1992 Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe for the site.

Can Solei Park

The origin of the farm dates back to 1565, when Ros buy the Dalmau Solei, a former farm. It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century, in 1851, when Evarist Arnus and Ferrer, influential rich man in Barcelona,following the tradition of families shelves of the nineteenth century it acquired a more ancient part of Solei. Since then and until 1936 the farms were separated. Until one day of that year the family opened the farm Arnus to organize a concert in order to raise money for militias fighting in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic. It's a great park.

Ca l'Arnus Park

The park covers an area of 8ha and can be divided into two zones. A neoclassical style with over 50 years old and over some 130 years of history. The historic-landscape of Ca l'Arnus is unique in the city of Badalona, both for its unique buildings, for the extraordinary rich vegetation and fauna. The park contains a swimming pool, lawns, ornamental trees, in the neoclassical style. In contrast, the rest of the park consists of classic romantic garden elements: caves, islands, bridges and lakes.

Turo d'en Park Caritg

This park has 6.1 ha in area, the first phase opened in 1990 and the third and last in 1999. It is within the limits of Sistrells neighborhood very close to Our Lady of Health Group . Style is a forest park, bringing together a large number of Mediterranean species. It has the peculiarity of being on a hill that is wholly within the urban core.

Geology

The mountain belongs to the Tertiary, Miocene period. The mountain is known today was formed a result of heavy erosion on the coastal range that through torrents and floods deposited at the foot of the hill was a material compacting and sloping. The soil of this place is formed by red clays, which are inserted minerals like quartz debris and shales, some of which can reach to over one meter in diameter.

Montigala Park

With an area of 8.1 ha and opened in 1991, belongs to the district Montigalá. The central trunk of the park is designed as a park semiforestal, gently sloping lawn mowed and accompanied by a Mediterranean vegetation and pine oak topped by paved roads. If you enter from the street Puigfred find a wide road flanked by trees and grass. Best known as Park dogs.

New Lloreda Park

Park with an abundance of lush trees and woody plants in order to give the traveler a leisure space in which to enjoy areas of shadow, walking or reading, as well as sport. The floor is dirt and sand. The park is divided into three levels, as it is slightly inclined, all with a walk around the perimeter. Opened in 1982, after years of protests by the locals who demanded an adaptation of an abandoned lot that had been used as a dumping uncivil. Has 1.5 ha.

Barriga Home Park

Small two-level landscaped park with trees, shrubs and grass. Of Mediterranean trees, pines and oak trees share space with exotic as xicandres and paprika. We also found ancient trees Barriga farm dog. It should be noted that irrigation of this park is done with groundwater. Bufalà belongs to the neighborhood bordering the historic district of Dalt de la Vila. With an area of 0.52 ha and opened in 1993.

 

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