Parc del Laberint d'Horta
This park has the city's oldest conserved garden. Once Neoclassical, with a slightly Italian look, it later adopted a Romantic style.
Every doubt is a labyrinth. Decisions, hypotheses and theories are paths for finding solutions, with every shortcut opening up a new point of view. Think about that as you try to work your way deep into the park’s labyrinth, made from wide, domesticated cypress hedges. If you reach the centre without finding the heart the park will have robbed you of, go and ask Eros where you can get it back. His sculpture stands smack in the middle of the labyrinth. Once you are back in the world, you can face the second challenge: Is this a Neoclassical or Romantic garden?
History
The park occupies the land of an estate once owned by the Marquis of Llupià, Poal and Alfarràs, a very enlightened man who gave the project to the Italian Domenico Bagutti, who worked on until 1808. A French gardener Delvalet was put in charge of the plantations, while the Catalan master builder Jaume Valls supervised the work. The Desvalls family remained the owners of the estate right up to the 1970s, when it was acquired by the City Council. It was officially opened as a public park in 1971. A complete overhaul followed in 1994 which changed its concept to that of a museum garden.
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