Parc de la Devesa
Parc de la Devesa features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Girona. Give it roughly ~45 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type park
- Suggested visit ~45 min
- Girona Girona guide
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About Parc de la Devesa
Catalonia's largest urban park, a cool green refuge of long avenues lined with soaring plane trees, some over fifty metres tall. Planted around 1850, they make a cathedral of leaves beside the city's rivers.
The Parc de la Devesa, west of the old town between the city's rivers, is the largest urban park in Catalonia, about forty hectares of green. Its glory is its avenues of plane trees, about two and a half thousand of them, planted close together around 1850 so that they grew astonishingly tall and straight, the tallest measured at over fifty metres, among the tallest trees in Catalonia.
The park has shady walks, formal French gardens, a cafe and sports and fair grounds; each autumn the Sant Narcís fair brings rides and festivities. It is a cool refuge in summer and a cathedral of bare trunks in winter.
Did you know? The Parc de la Devesa, west of the old town between the city's rivers, is the largest urban park in Catalonia, about forty hectares of green.
How long is a visit to Parc de la Devesa?
Set aside roughly ~45 min for Parc de la Devesa. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Parc de la Devesa worth your time?
Parc de la Devesa is among the 13 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Girona, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
Nearby stops in Girona
Sources and further reading
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