There are places in Madrid that are almost instinct: l is one of them. The Government Council of the Community of Madrid has approved on Wednesday to declare the farm, a Canillejas park famous for its almond trees, either of cultural interest (BIC) in the category of historical heritage for its “high historical, urban, landscape and botanical value” category.
It is part, next to Torre Arias and El Capricho, of the axis of quintas that marked the old road of Aragon. The object of protection covers the entire set: plant formations, gardens and agricultural area with its hydraulic irrigation system and the constructions that give body. The inventory includes the Palace de Cort – resulting the reforms of César Cort between 1939 and 1954 on a previous structure; The clock house, at the entrance; the old garages and warehouses; laundry; The tennis track and the greenhouse.
: The succession of landscaped spaces around the main property, with geometric gardens that are related to the facades, refer to the precepts of Viennese secessionism. The municipal park took its name from the unique windmills that arrived from the US in the twenties to extract water from the wells. In 1943 a reform and expansion project was promoted that incorporated a goal and a front on Alcalá Street, and over time farms were attached until reaching 29 hectares in its peak.
The fifth has been accumulating layers of use that are part of its memory: between 1986 and 1993 the Clock House housed a gardening school dependent on the Madrid Institute of Employment and Professional Training (IMEFE), and from 1990 part of the access buildings from Alcalá Street were occupied by an addiction care center (CAD). In July 2018, the fifth of Los Molinos open space opened its doors, a cultural and social center that returned public life to some rooms of the enclosure.
The regional statement protects both the landscape and the material traces that have made the farm a unique place. “Recognizes the patrimonial values that this farm has,” said the ViceAlcaldesa of the City Council of Madrid, Inma Sanz, in statements to the media after the act.
In the same session, the Regional Government also declared BIC two pieces of a different nature: the manuscript ‘old fueros and leies of Spain’, of the fourteenth century – a legal text composed of several long -term writings; And the anonymous drawing ‘View of the Hermitage and Fiesta de San Isidro in Madrid’, from the nineteenth century, made of Plumilla and Aguada on paper and linked to the preparatory illustrations of Alexandre Laborde’s work.
For those who enter for the first time or for those who return every year when the almond trees dress in white, the statement is a guarantee: that this fragment of memory – paid, technique and architecture – is now recognized and protected on the map of the city.
