Magnificent garden area with banana trees and palm trees, and forest areas with pine and oak trees.
Within the extensive property of Can Garí in Cros d'Argentona, a large garden was designed that completed the work of remodeling the estate that Josep Puig i Cadafalch carried out between 1898 and 1900. Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí was the first to intervene in the design through the combination of natural spaces with the distribution of tree areas, mainly pines, which responded to leaving a free nature next to other modeled ones. The garden was designed to walk through by means of paths, stepped terraces made of exposed brick, pergolas (some recall the work he was carrying out in the Montjuïc Park, in Barcelona), pointing out points of view that open up to broad perspectives. The presence of vegetation is combined with sculptures that give the gardens a more human dimension. Wooded spaces have been recreated, others with the presence of cacti and a large pond in the middle of which is the glass temple of Baccarat with the figure of Hermes in bronze, or the dots of wrought iron lanterns all resume the stately character of the place.
This garden with the presence of sculptures and areas with citrus trees, so characteristic of the Mediterranean and Italian villas, enters fully into the Noucentisme style. The gardening work was continued by Lluís Bonet and Garí, with whom they shared the same ideology linked to the Noucentisme period.
It is a green space of a large extension conceived as a small botanical garden. It is organised by areas: Mediterranean garden, oriental, with citrus fruits, exotic, with cacti, Central European, with several species of conifers and deciduous trees... The lake area is also noteworthy, both for its aquatic vegetation and for the native species of amphibians which live there. In recent years it has been established as a passage area for some migratory birds.
It could not be accessed to perform the inventory. The description has been based on the existing bibliography and the photographs are from previous visits.
