Jardines y parques públicos de GaliciaUna visión histórica desde una perspectiva botánica y ambiental

Abstract

: Galician gardening has been marked during the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries,due to the existence of important private spaces configured around the palaces and largeperi-urban and rural houses (Pazos), in which the landscaped areas constitute a differentiatorelement compared to the dedicated areas to agricultural production, which will progressivelyreduce and transform. The configuration and temporary prevalence of the gardens of thepazos will be a backbone for the emergence of more domestic private gardens, which arise indifferent territorial areas, especially in cities during the nineteenth century. On the contrary,public gardening has had less relevance, being scarce and sometimes imperceptible withinthe urban fabric, the public gardens existing in Galicia before the 19th century, while, duringthe second half of the eighteenth and the first decades of the century XX, almost all of the cities, towns and villages of Galicia create public landscaped areas, which in most casescorrespond to the Alameda (tree-lined avenue) or Parque-Alameda (tree-lined avenue-park)model. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, economic and social changes mark astage of developmentalism that in many cases is irrational and predatory, losing or altering alarge number of historical gardens, while in the field of public gardening new models of pooraesthetic, landscape and environmental quality, which in many cases have had a negativeimpact on the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage of Galicia.