Barcelona Botanical Garden
Terraced hillside garden of fractal triangular paths grouping plants from five Mediterranean-climate regions of the world.
This guide to the Barcelona Botanical Garden traces the 1988 competition that reshaped a quarried scar on Montjuic, when architect Carlos Ferrater and landscape architect Bet Figueras bet on fracturing the paths into triangles rather than flattening the slope. You'll hear how botanists then filled those triangular plots with plants from five far-flung corners of the world that share one unusual climate pattern, and follow what a decade of construction, from 1989 to 1999, took to carve out of the old quarry wall. Best walked slowly, wedge by wedge, comparing what grows in each one.
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