{"id":1698,"date":"2018-12-19T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archerphoto.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2018-12-19T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T09:20:41","slug":"central-park-of-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvgrkdwu.a2hosted.com\/archerphotopuntocom\/central-park-of-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Park of Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Singer Carlos Gardel said “Que 20 a\u00f1os no es nada” (“20 years is nothing).\u00a0Gardel was not Valencian, but of course, the arrival of this Central Park would have seemed something to him, because it has taken 30 years to become a reality since its planning.\u00a0The first difficulty was that the space that part of the city was owned by RENFE (Spain national railway company).\u00a0The second is that the plans included the burying of the railway tracks, a really important work in any place and more in Valencia, where the water table <\/a>is very high and as soon as you make a small hole you find water flowing.\u00a0This can be explained by the engineers who had to deal with the construction of the underground lines in the capital of the Turia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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A view of the Central Park of Valencia on the day of the inauguration.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The delays of the Central Park of Valencia<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The park did not arrive although the city had problems to fulfill the ratios of green zone recommended by the WHO, of between 10 and 15 square meters per inhabitant.\u00a0Valencia remained at 5.64 in 2010 despite all the creation of parks and green areas since the 80s, when they came to include islets and roundabouts as green areas to make up the gloomy statistics.\u00a0In 2003, an agreement was signed for the park, but local governments kept promising and not complying. American landscaper Kathryn Gustafson\u00a0won a public contest in 2006 but in the constant discussions the project lost the four aparment towers of twenty-five floors.\u00a0It would not be until 2015 when the works started.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Joan Rib\u00f3, Jos\u00e9 Luis \u00c1balos, Ximo Puig and Salvador Mart\u00ednez Ciscar, visiting the Central Park on the day of its inauguration.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

However, the project that opens today with 11 hectares of garden, with native species, sustainable, with colored lights, specific space for pets, water tanks and other details, constitutes approximately 40% of the total park.\u00a0The garden will cost about 73 million euros once completed.\u00a0 However the cost of burying the roads will exceed 3,000 million euros, specified the Spanish Minister of Development, Jos\u00e9 Luis \u00c1balos, at the opening of the park, present with Joan Rib\u00f3 , mayor of the city, and Ximo Puig, president of the Generalitat Valenciana.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Figures and details<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To follow a little with the figures, about 1000 trees, 85,000 bushes, old ships rebuilt and moved.\u00a0An essential decontamination of the land was carried out, which was soaked with residues of fuel and oils.\u00a0And problems of shortages of some materials, and conflicts with some expropriations of land, have made the park was not available until December 17, 2018. But since its opening Valencians have begun to visit this Central Park immediately.<\/p>\r\n