A first-class park for a first-class neighbourhood

Parc de Sant Martí offers local residents the chance to enjoy a great variety of sports and leisure activities, with a small lake, a paved square for playing ball games and various courts. There is abundant vegetation, very varied and mainly Mediterranean, plus big stretches of grass and shaded areas with cypress trees, elms, poplars and alders. The orange and olive trees are a reminder of the area’s agricultural past.

The jewels of the park

At Can Cadena, a magnificent country house dating from the 18th century, there is a vegetable garden with allotments farmed by some of the district’s elderly residents. There is also an area set aside for farm animals, a compost area and a classroom for organic agriculture training. The park also contains the magnificent Sant Martí de Provençals medieval church and two country houses, Ca l’Arnó and Can Planas, which house a toy library and a residential centre.