Parque Central

This guide to Parque Central in Valencia starts on February 26, 2003, when officials signed a deal to bury the freight tracks that had cut through the city for over a century and hand back twenty-three hectares of parkland. It follows the project through changing ministers and ballooning budgets, from an eight-hundred-million-euro promise toward a far larger bill. Listen for how a single signing-day promise kept slipping for two decades, and look toward the park's edges, where fencing and idle machinery still mark unfinished ground.