He Palma Town Hall announced on Tuesday that it would finance the project of Botanical garden in the houses of Retiro and Park of Lives in a first phase with more than two million euros from sustainable tourism tax (IST).
The Mayor popular Jaime Martinezaccompanied by the vice-president of the Association for the revitalization of old town centers (ARCA), The Angels Fermoselleassured that “there will surely be a point of execution of the project for next year.” “There will be a ideas competition and the multidisciplinary teams that win these competitions will be hired so that they can develop the project,” explained the first mayor.
In the Parc de les Vies, an area of 31,543 square metersThis project will bring together His Fortified Son with These are the Fort North. For this development, the Palmas City Council benefits from the advice of Pep Lluis Gradaillawho designed the Soller Botanical Garden. In the Retiro CaseThe botanical garden will be deployed at 49,034 square meters.
The final objective, Martínez said, “is to make available to the citizens of Palma this botanical garden that integrates flora from all the Mediterranean climatic regions of the world, such as Californiacenter of Peppersouthwestern Australia or the western part of South Africa.
🌿✨ A new green lung for Palma! ✨🌿
The Botanical Garden of Palma begins walking between two spectacular places: Ses Cases des Retiro de Bellver and the Parc de les Vies. pic.twitter.com/EGZclHunbC
– Palma City Council (@ajuntpalma) September 17, 2024
Furthermore, Martínez expressed that Palma should not only be the administrative and official capital of the Balearic Islands, but also “it should be the capital of many perspectives, such as cultural, scientific and, as is the case today, of the fight against change” . the climate and valuing the environments that we recover.
For her part, the vice-president of ARCA considered that the The capital of the Balearic Islands was waiting for the creation of a central botanical garden with “exceptional facilities”.. He specified that the garden will have an auditorium, exhibition rooms, offices, a herbarium, educational classrooms, an interpretation center of the Mediterranean pine forest and maintenance services, among other facilities.
