Dades bàsiques

Duració:

1 h

Punt de partida:

Wangari Maathai Park

Punt de finalització:

La Rambleta Cultural Center



The presence of Monumental and Singular Trees in the city of Valencia reflects the spirit of people, many anonymous, who opted to preserve and protect one of the longest living beings on the planet, and whose ability to grow throughout their lives allows us today to surprise ourselves with their dimensions or by characteristics that have nothing to do with the measurements but with their rarities, their peculiar shape, the historical facts associated with them or because they are unique species.

All of them silently contribute to the fight against climate change. They are our allies and will play an important role inside cities.

All of them make our lives more pleasant. They are the living witnesses of our history, the travelers of time and space, they are the heirs of the model of sustainable city that we build now.

“A journey through the Mediterranean” is a journey through a sea of cultures and a “sea” of trees, in the domains of the Mare Nostrum, they talk about it and link our historical ties. Different countries with a common link: the climate and its trees.

And to find out, nothing better than the La Rambleta Garden, designed by its creators to “question the relationship of humans with powerful nature to the vision of omnipotence of the human capable of bending it to his convenience, opting now for the search for a relationship of respect and integration”.


At the last stop of our route we have a Tamariu (Tamarix gallica). This tree is native to Gaul (present-day France) and can also be found in the Turia Garden.



Specimens of white spines, chicranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia), strawberry trees or holm oaks are part of the Parque de la Rambleta, the main element of the route.



Two large olive trees, possibly the most characteristic tree of the entire Mediterranean basin, stand out in the surroundings of this old mill, near the Parque de la Rambleta and the last phase of the route.



In this first phase of the route, located in the Wangari Maathai Park, we can find an olive tree, a hackberry tree or an elm, trees frequent throughout the Mediterranean basin and that serve as an introduction to this route.