Torreblanca Park
The Park Torreblanca is located in the municipalities of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Egham and Sant Joan Despi and covers an area of 12 hectares. The Barcelona metropolitan area, in coordination with local councils, is responsible for the overall management and maintenance of the park.
The History Torreblanca brings us to the transformations experienced by one of the most notable farms in this sector of Lower Llobregat. The farm has its origins in the Middle Ages, but it was not until 1564 that the name first appears Torre Blanca, due to the presence of a defense tower which was near where the maze. The owners, the Marquis of Monistrol d'Anoia, in the late nineteenth century, it became a major transformation and build a palace and large gardens. It is for this reason that the heart of the park can admire the magnificent romantic garden, which introduces us to a world full of charm and mystery. During the Civil War the building was severely damaged, which caused the palace was demolished in 1958.
Finally, in 1982 the estate becomes public ownership, becomes the seat of the Regional Council of Lower Llobregat and creates metropolitan park that we enjoy today.
At the heart of the park is a beautiful historic garden nineteenth century. Their design imaginative as to imitate the forms and elements of nature, such as caves, islands, caves, lakes and waterfalls surrounded by lush vegetation and diverse. Their roses remind Torreblanca was one of the most important production centers of roses in the country.
Thus, playing the romantic gardens, we can find the modern park, which follows the traces of ancient fields of roses farm with a large platform structure
where they incorporate several meeting spaces and places with large trees and settled there playgrounds, furniture and fountains.
Among the plant species present in the park to highlight the extent to which the banana and pine, but we found many more such as oaks, palm trees, lime trees, acacia, mulberry, cypress, palmetto, oak, etc. .
environmental Jugateca
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona with the support of the Regional Council of Lower Llobregat and the municipalities of Sant Feliu, Sant Joan Despi and Sant Just Desvern remain active during the school year on Sunday 'Jugateca environment' in order to invigorate the park and provide families with a children's play area and learning which will appraise the significance of the environment.
Guided tour
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona also offers a view of the park tour, where they teach the importance of vegetation in parks, unique trees and trees of this area listed local interest, through the location of copies the park and its identification by a simple dichotomous key.
360º Virtual Tour
AMB has begun the process to facilitate the tour of all metropolitan parks with 360 images. is a technology of photo geo Google Trekker.
The tour is done through the map viewer's own website AMB, made with Google Maps technology. Once you access the general plan of the park are available all the services and attractions of the space itself, which are geolocated on the plane.
At the top right of the viewfinder can access all three tabs display types: map, satellite or virtual tour. Once this has been done here last tab you can 'walk' through the different spaces and corners of the park, as if the user is walking in the park.