Welcome to the
José Celestino Mutis Platform
An invitation to discover our rich green heritage

Urban parks, wetlands, marshes and salt flats, modernity mixed with past, make up the catalogue of exceptional natural and cultural value that the municipality of Cadiz treasures.

The recreation of our small, quiet oasis of calm in the bustling comings and goings of the city, inspiration of photographers and artists and a must visit of scholars, visitors and the curious, our Parks and Gardens are much more than the lungs of our city, they are part of our history, our creators and our accountants of it.

Committed to the protection and diffusion of the natural beauty of our municipality, embodied in its parks and gardens, we want to get closer to its particularities, history, monuments, fauna and botanical heritage.

Walk through them, get to know them, and you will fall in love with them.

Genoves Park

The old romantic

The Goverment of Andalucia declared it an Asset of Cultural Interest (BOJA 19/3/2004)

Jewels of
Genoves Park

THE DRAGON TREE

Dracaena draco L.
Mythology locates the birth of the first Dragon tree at the point where Hercules killed his enemy the giant Gerion. Hercules plunged him into the mud with a huge pole, after his betrayal to seize the kingdom of Gades.

THE POHUTUKAWA

Metrosideros excelsa = Metrosideros tomentosa A.Rich.
Genovés Park hosts the most important centennial specimen in Europe that, together with another smaller one in the north, are the two oldest documented examples in this continent. There are other younger specimens in the Gardens of the Paseo de Carlos III, Paseo de Canalejas, Alameda Apodaca, Rochester street, Cortadura, etc.

NORFOLK ISLAND PINE

Araucaria heterophylla
The centenarian specimens located in Genovés Park, Alameda de Apodaca and Marqués de Comillas, Plaza de Candelaria and Calle Tinte are of great importance in Cadiz.

Jardines

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her”

 William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
English Poet

The great Cadiz botanist naturalists:

Columela and Celestino Mutis

Columela

Since his childhood, Columela broadened his mind with the love of nature and agriculture and livestock.

José Celestino Mutis

Distinguished and renowned Cadiz-born José Celestino Mutis y Bosio (1732-1808), priest, botanist, geographer, mathematician and doctor, carried out numerous studies of Botany in the New Kingdom of Granada, territory occupied today by Colombia.

The great Cadiz botanist naturalists:

Columela and Celestino Mutis

Columela

Lucius Junius Moderatus, nicknamed Columela, was a Roman agronomic and military writer, born in Gades (Cadiz), in the year 4 AD.

José Celestino Mutis

Distinguished and renowned Cadiz-born José Celestino Mutis y Bosio (1732-1808), priest, botanist, geographer, mathematician and doctor, carried out numerous studies of Botany in the New Kingdom of Granada, territory occupied today by Colombia.

Natural Park, Bay of Cadiz

Living between the sea and the land

Marshes, salt flats, pine forests, beaches, the perfect coexistence of man and nature.

A space of 1,000 m2 of surface where education and training about the environment is “generated” and “cultivated”; as well as being a meeting place to discuss and share experiences.

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© 2018 Ayuntamiento de Cádiz – Área de Medio Ambiente - Delegación Municipal de Parques y Jardines.

Bibliografía y fuentes consultadas

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