Our 5th stop is an elegant garden named "Jardins Muñoz Ramonet". The gardens are part of a former private residence belonging to the Marquis Ferran Fabra (1866-1944), who commissioned the design of the garden to Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, a famous landscape architect known above all for having introduced the concept of "Mediterranean garden" "in the urban environment of Barcelona. He has, for example, designed the gardens of Montjuic in the international exhibition of 1929. In 1945 the property was sold to the brothers Munoz Ramonet, prominent figures of Catalan politics in the Francoist era, who started a major restructuring entrusted to the landscape architect Joan Mirabell, who kept all the existing trees, preserving the original character of the garden. To date, according to the brothers' will, the garden is owned by the Ajundament de Barcelona, which has only recently opened the space to the public, following a careful technical restructuring. The trees present constitute the real heritage. Near the entrance of the house we can see a wisteria arbor surrounded by a pond. In the area of the meadow we find a centenary linden tree, an avocado tree (hardly cultivable according to the Spanish climate), and a group of magnolias. The garden also has a centennial Lauro (near the fence) and a Bagolaro, which is the largest tree. Beyond the pool, now converted into a pond surrounded by white and red lilies, we find a tree of Judas and exotic palms called Latanie. As you can see, the natural heritage of this garden is a treasure for tourists who can admire the uniqueness, maintained through appropriate restructuring and preservation of natural elements which are so peculiar.
