Juan Carlos I Park

Juan Carlos I Park
Parque Juan Carlos I
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Coordinates	40°27′36″N3°36′22″W / 40.46011°N 3.60605°W / 40.46011; -3.60605
Area	160 ha (400 acres)
Created	1992 (1992)
Operated by	City of Madrid

Juan Carlos I Park (Spanish : Parque Juan Carlos I) is a major municipal park in Madrid, Spain. The park was named after King Juan Carlos I. ^[1] The park contains many modern sculptures. ^[2]

The architects and urban designers are Jose Luis Esteban Penelas and Emilio Esteras Martín.

The Music MetroRock festival is regularly held at the Juan Carlos Park. ^[3]

Sculptures of Juan Carlos I Park

• Fingering (Mario Irarrázaval, Chile, 1994)
• Meetings (Mustafa Arruf, Spain, 1998)
• Eolos (Paul van Hoeydonck, Belgium, 1992)
• Space Mexico (Andres Casillas and Margarita Garcia Cornejo, Mexico, 1992)
• Fisicromía to Madrid (Carlos Cruz Diez, Venezuela, 1992)
• Tribute to Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún (Toshimitsu Imai, Japan, 1992)
• Tribute to Galileo Galilei (Amadeo Gabino, Spain, 1992)
• Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust (Samuel Nahon Bengio, Israel, 2007)
• The songs of the Crossroads (Leopoldo Maler, Argentina, 1992)
• Manolona Opus 397 (Miguel Berrocal, Spain, 1992)
• Monument to Don Juan (Victor Ochoa, Spain, 1994)
• Monument to Peace (Yolanda D'Augsburg, Brazil, 1992)
• My Sky Hole / Madrid (Bukichi Inoue, Japan, 1992)
• Blue Passage (Arghira Alexandru, Romania, 1992)
• Walk between two trees (Jorge Castillo, Spain, 1995)
• Untitled (Dani Karavan, Israel, 1992)
• Untitled (José Miguel Utande, Spain, 1992)
• Inner journey (Michael Warren, Ireland, 1992)
• Beam (Jorge du Bon, Mexico, 1992)

References

1. Scolovsky, Jerome (10 October 2007). "Spain's Royal Family Under Fire". National Public Radio . Retrieved 12 March 2009.
2. "Juan Carlos I, un parque arquitectónico" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 26 December 1998. Archived from the original on 2 June 2002. Retrieved 12 March 2009.
3. "METROROCK." El País . 23 June 2006. Retrieved on 12 March 2009. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• Parque Juan Carlos I (in Spanish)

Preceded by Mandalay Bay	Fed Cup Final Four venue 2001	Succeeded by Palacio de Congresos de Maspalomas