Alcachofa Fountain

Check out our Visitors Guides for six features of Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. Completed by IES Alfredo Kraus 1°D-ESO Global Scholars students. 

Welcome to Retiro Park!

We saw dogs , geese, birds, doves and squirrels

Here at the fountain there are some animals that are not natural for the park, such as doves because interfere with the natural birds, and dogs because their owners don't clean their waste.

The Alcachofa fountain is a monumental fountain in Madrid. Built in the third of the eighteenth century and installed in front of the old Puerta de Vallecas, from where it passed in 1880 to the Jardines del Buen Retiro. There is also a replica in Madrid in broze that was placed in the roundabout of Atocha in 1986.

We saw a lot of trees, some of them are: pine tree, fir tree. We also saw flowers and bushes which were well preserved.

Here is the natural things in retiro park. For example, this is a pansy flower.

The landscape of the Alcachofa fountain has very clean air, the ground has no cracks and there are many people cleaning the ground so that nobody falls. There are many trash bins, and they smelled a little bit bad, but it helps the park stay clean. The atmosphere was good because of the music that the people play and there are a lot of shops and pubs.

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