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Parc Samà, Cambrils (Spain)

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The environment of Parc Samà is Cambrils - Costa Daurada, a territory privileged by its geography, beaches and mountains, its climate, cultural and natural heritage, Mediterranean landscape, first-class gastronomy and infrastructures. All these attributes make it one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain.

Natural environment

The Park was created and promoted by Salvador Samà i Torrens, Marquis of Marianao, heir to a Catalan family established in Cuba. The project was commissioned in the year 1881 to Josep Fontserè, author of the Park of the Ciutadella de Barcelona and with Antoni Gaudí as assistant. 
Parc Samà is a roundtrip, a journey of emigration and return. Dreaming of America, coming back and leaving a legacy. Other trees, other birds, others costumes and colours, other arts…  Adventure, culture and wealth. Parc Samà is the history and the story of the Marquisate of Marianao.

Historical background 

Parc samà is a romantic garden, French parterres, a poetic and abstract forest, plane trees and reeds coexist with wisteria and bougainvillea. More than eight hundred palm trees, magical oak trees and elegant cedar and pine trees surround a lake where the ducks and turtles live. Peacocks and pheasants play around its waterfall, witnesses of our visit. Parc Samà is a companion for our feelings, freedom and encounters. It is romanticism, it is the garden of Parc Samà.
<h3>An eclectic garden</h3>
The search of perfection finds its place in an elegant chaos, in the harmony of nature itself. Built in the image of the English gardens, Parc Samà proclaims freedom from its Romantic conception, as if the park was an improvised creation. Without giving up its organised outlines that follow the French style, the park is mainly romantic and poetic, more or less dense and wild, formed mostly by open spaces and important botanical species.
It is clearly an eclectic garden which combines styles such as Italian Renaissance or English Romanticism, including in this last case their three basic elements: the landscape, which involves leaving out statues, buildings and other elements, as in the rear area of the Palace of the Lake; the poetic, which introduces artificiality and decorative elements, as the Lake or the Waterfall; and the abstract art, the Forest.
<h3>Animal welfare </h3>
Within this exotic and wild variable, many gardens of the time contained collections of animals (deer, pheasants, peacocks…). In the case of the Parc Samà, and following the idea of the founder of the Salvador Samà i Torrens to recreate a garden that would transport the visitor to colonial Cuba, the park housed different collections of animals, among which the birds brought from Central America stood out.
The garden of today recovers this dimension, focusing on the fondness of its founder in the collection of ornamental birds from the new world, but adapting this concept to the XXI century, where animal welfare is the absolute priority. The animal collections that the Parc Samà houses are intended to serve as a classroom for education and conservation, where the visitor can admire, enjoy and understand closely the wonderful world of birds, deer, turtles, etc.

They form the most attractive part of the area and represent the centre of gravity of the entire historical complex. In the lake, there are three islands linked by bridges that imitate wooden logs. On the central island, there is a mountain built with large rockery that forms a grotto with a jetty inside.
The grotto-jetty at Parc Samà follows the guidelines and the model of other grottoes of English typology, especially the one created by Hamilton in Painshill, Bristol, throughout the 18th century.

Lake

The residence of the Marquesado is a large building of about 1,100 square meters, with miscellaneous, ornamental details (baroque, rococo, medieval) finished with solid dependent roofs.
Behind the palace, the central garden is distributed from a small square dominated by a second cast-iron fountain of French origin.
Photo: Eduard Trallero

Palace

Fallow deer is a species native to the Mediterranean region: southern Europe, the Middle East and Asia Minor. It is a medium-sized deer: smaller than deer and larger than roe deer. The fur of the adults is reddish, with white spots in summer and greyish in winter.
Males are larger than females and have shovel-branched horns that are renewed every year between March and April. From October to early November, the rutting period occurs, known as the ronca.

Deer forest

Delve to admire, enjoy and understand the wonderful world of exotic birds closely. The Marianao Aviary is conceived to immerse the visitor in the world of exotic birds, recreating the sensation of being in the tropical jungle. Built on the base of the old deer enclosure, the aviary is eight meters high and includes vegetation and waterways.
The aviary also has the vocation of being a powerful tool for social awareness of environmental problems, the conservation of endangered species and scientific research.

Marianao Aviary

This 350 m2 greenhouse was built in the old riding arena building where riders and horses trained, the great passion of the park’s founder, Salvador Samà y Torrens.
It is home to more than 75 species of palm trees and other tropical trees, among which are two specimens of Roystonea regia, the royal palm, the national tree of Cuba; a specimen of Dypsis decaryi, a strange triangular palm native to the rainforest of Madagascar; and two Ravenala madagascariensis, known as the traveller’s tree of the Strelitziaceaemas family.
MORE INFO Parc Samà, like most of the romantic gardens, had a greenhouse, but it was destroyed in the civil war. The new facility aims to enhance the bucolic atmosphere of the historic park, offering visitors an immersion in a tropical environment that will allow them to isolate themselves from the outside environment, following the principle of prioritizing feelings, typical of romantic gardens.

Fontcuberta Greenhouse

Also called Torre Angulo, it is built on a cliff or masonry mountain and reaches a height of 24 meters. The mountain is hollow inside, forming a dome like a romantic grotto. The tower has a classically medieval shape: Round floor, frustoconical section and upper platform with battlements.
Its original conception obeys the albarrana tower model, since it starts from a closed area and communicates with the rest from the round pass. The dome breathes the style of Antonio Gaudí, who endowed this type of interior spaces with special dynamism.

Viewpoint Tower

Description

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<li>1881 Salvador Samà commissioned the construction of the park in 1881 as his private resting place. Parc Samà hosted the visit of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia and headquarters of numerous meetings and political conventions.</li>
<li>1920 In the 20’s, the Development Council carried out different botanical experiments in the Parc, especially tests which expected to exterminate the olive tree fly.</li>
<li>1936 But Parc Samà was also a witness to the Civil War. In 1936 the park was used exclusively for military purposes. The palace and gardens were confiscated by the Comitè Antifeixista de Cambrils and the site became a Military Instruction Centre where thousands of soldiers passed through and after a few days were sent to the trenches.</li>
<li>1938 In 1938 the Park took in the soldiers of the "Quinta del Biberón" who, after receiving military instruction for just three days, were sent to the Ebro or Segre lines. At the end of the same year, a "Hospital de Sang" or field hospital for the war wounded was set up within the enclosure.</li>
<li>Post-war period The post-war period brought changes and what was once a hunting estate became an agricultural estate. Olive trees, vines and hazelnut trees were planted. A wine cellar and a press were built where Muscatel wine was made and sold directly. In this new stage, Parc Samà hosted the first editions of the Cambrils International Classical Music Festival. Salvador Samà i Coll, a music lover, was the driving force behind this festival together with Lluís Recasens, the mayor of Cambrils at the time. Salvador Samà gave the garden to hold concerts there, where José Carreras and Monserrat Caballé, among others, performed.</li>
<li>1981 Alfonso de Fontcuberta, VII Marquis of Marianao, received the park as a donation from his mother in 1981 and made the second great change to the park: he restructured the estate, invested in machinery, planted new trees such as almond and peach trees, and marketed the produce wholesale. He put in drip irrigation throughout the estate and for all this he received the Deu award from the Institut Agrícola de Catalunya as a model farm. Alfonso de Fontcuberta realised that the park had become a centre of reference for tourists and, after a trip to California, he copied the model of visits to places with cultural and leisure attractions and so began the tourist visits and the commercialisation of the park through intermediary agents. In this sense, it could be said that Parc Samà was the first leisure park in Spain.</li>
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Museum space in the premises of the old winery and oil press, being a sample of agricultural production in the area and an experimental space where you can taste original cuisine products from the area of high quality as vermouth, olive oil, nuts, etc.

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Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the palace and the forecourt, Sylwester Cichal,

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Palace garden in Nieborów, boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, the linden alley, Dariusz Piwowarski

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Palace and garden complex in Nieborów, Dariusz Bógdał

Palace garden in Nieborów, view of the palace from the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

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Palace garden in Nieborów, ornamental parterres and boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

Old orangery in Nieborów, aerial view, Dariusz Bógdał

Old orangery in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

Garden cabinets in the regular garden in Nieborów, Katarzyna Piotrowska

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Linden alley in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Garden cabinet with the eagle column, garden in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

Garden canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Alley by the canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak,

Canal in the garden in Nieborów, Monika Bajkowsk

Plane trees in the palace garden in Nieborów, Xenia Modrzejewska-Mrozowska

Old orchard in Nieborów, Katarzyna Żak-Zatorska

Orchard in winter, Nieborów, Sylwester Borusiak vel Boruta

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Nieborów palace garden

Palace Garden in Nieborów

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