El Manzanares Linear Park connect the Madrid River ’s relationship with the South East Regional Park and allows us a good bike ride towards the southeast, following the course of the Manzanares River. 35 hectares of green areas at the exit of the city.
It has several elements of interest, the connection with the Cycling Green Ring, the Magic Box designed by Dominique Perrault, like the bridge of the same name in the Madrid River. Also the sculpture of the Head, as everyone calls it. The official name is The Lady of the Manzanares, an urban sculpture located at the highest point of the Manzanares Linear Park.
The work was made in bronze and steel, designed by the Valencian artist Manolo Valdes. It is huge, measuring 13 meters high and weighing 8 tons.
It is on the top of the artificial hill of La Atalaya, an authentic viewpoint of Madrid, a 21 m high pyramidal platform, designed by the architect Ricardo Bofill, taking advantage of years of rubble in an area of ​​the city that for many years was very neglected. It represents the head of a woman, with her face facing north, dedicated to the Manzanares River.

A good recovery and enhancement of a peri-urban space. The connection with the Madrid Río is still marked as provisional, those provisional things, which in Madrid can last decades, even so, the connection is very simple.

A abrazo.