In heat Puerta -Tod Salt From Madrid, this is a difficult task. From this summer you can look for the shadows of some canopies that the city council directed by Jose Louis Martinez Almeida. These are 32 removable panels that cost one and a half euros. This is the decision that they give to hide from high temperatures in the square, with a long history that was reconstructed in 2023 and was left without any shadow.
“Oven with capital letters” or “remote shadow”The field is that those who pass through the Central Madrid Square say where they are surrounded by asphalt, where there is no shadow, despite these awnings. But why canopies, not trees? And this place never had leafy vegetation as such.
In 1656, he was drawn as a rectangular way to intersect in the plane of Tekeir. This was already around 1857, when several buildings were demolished, and this begins to give a semi -elliptical form. It will arrive later Famous clockTrams, ring interchanges and cars. Until 1950, when another great reform is carried out with the construction of two sources of twins and a garden in the center.
In subsequent years, there is a random tree planted on plantators, but as the green zones also decrease. And so far, where there are many, but all those who are striking in the absence of a shadow, especially because of the high temperatures of summer It’s more hotField
According to the city council, the trees cannot be planted in Puerta -Tod -Sol There is a concrete slab, very close to the surface This is about 20 centimeters from the sidewalk, although in order to be able to plant, and that the roots are attached, it will be necessary, at least one and a half meters of land.
Thus, there will be only two options. It would be possible to lower the objects of the metro and the surroundings that pass below; And the other, in order to raise the land of Plaza de La Puerta -Tod -Sol. option that “I would generate a step”Since the “current level of buildings coincides with the level of area”, Jose Maria Ezizaga, the National Prize for the city planning of the architect.
But there are options for this place to be more pleasant. The same expert indicates that they can resolve “Several sources, even some that can be approached and touched by water”Other optional sprinklers or small vegetation will be other optional. Both, the elements that were already here, and resemble the sun of the past.
