Cypress cataloged as a unique tree by the Community of Madrid

The month of August is approaching and the heat this year in Madrid is being very intense. Another month of August in 1774 and by order of Carlos III, The architect Sabatini work on the Botanical Garden began in its current location, replacing the Hot Crumbs garden. The king inaugurated the garden in 1781. From it the Royal Apothecary was supplied with medicinal plants and plants from America and the Philippines were acclimatized. The initial design created a space on three levels: the Plano de la Flor terrace (the upper level), the Botanical Schools terrace (middle level) and the Barracks terrace (lower level next to the Paseo del Prado).

Between 1785 and 1789, Juan de Villanueva He carried out a second and definitive, more rational and scientific project.

Much later, in the 2005st century, in XNUMX, the Terraza de los Laureles would be added to the site (approximately one hectare of new exhibition space). Making up the nine hectares of the enclosure.

An ideal place to escape the rigors of summer, today we want to recommend an excuse to visit it. Several unique trees Awaiting our visit are no less than 17 unique trees cataloged by the Community of Madrid: Yew, Himalayan Pine, Hackberry, Himalayan Cedar, Sequoia, Gingo, Carraco Pine, Oak, Plantain, Beech, Canary Palm, Linden, Tree of the Iron, Elm of the Caucasus, our Elm (Ulmus minor), Granado and one of them, a Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), which disputes the honor of being the oldest tree in Madrid with the  Ahuehuete (taxodium mucronatum) Of retirement.

Many of these specimens survived from the cyclone that devastated Madrid in 1886, the War of Independence and the Civil War, moments of political abandonment and plagues and diseases.

A good way to spend a summer day in Madrid.

A abrazo.