The Sama Park

«The Sama Park” is nailed in the “Baix Camp” Tarragones, in the middle of fields of avellanos, almonds tree, peaches, olive trees and vines, between the municipal terms of CambrILS and Montbrio of the Camp, to 90 meters on the level of the sea, to 5 km. of the coast and between it laughs themevenness of Alforja and Riude-canyes.

The producer and promoter of the “Sama Park” were Rescuing gift Sama and Torrens, Marques de Marianao (1.861-1933). The “park” conserves that flavor romantic of the last years of the colonial time, since Marques was successive of a family stabled in Cuba, and wanted to transfer to the “Baix Camp”, the exotic atmosphere of the lost Colonia. For it, order the project from the garden to insigne construction foreman Don Jose Fontsere and Mestres, whose father, Don Jose Fontsere Domenech was natural of the neighboring population of Vinyols and Arcs. Jose Fontsere and Mestres were author of the Park of the Ciudadela de Barcelo¬na and juntor to its assistant the architect Antonio Gaudí and Cornet, of the construction of the Great Cascade of same l.

The plantation of the Park gave beginning in year 1.881. Later, Marques of Marianao made construct to diverse cockpits and cages to lodge the different animals from its deprived Zoo, located around the botanical enclosure and of he himself style that the rest conj architectonic grease, that is, done with limestone stones (pebbles), and disguising element of takes hold among them with iron sulphate, in the style of ochocentistas cascades.

The Zoo disappeared during our last civil war, only being left the construction is of he himself. The layout of the “Sama Park” obeys to a composition by axes, ordered by ways, with you hoist aligned to its sides, or by spaces opened between elements important and ectnics

The House and Lake-Suspend, can say that they constitute the centers of gravity of the set of the Park. They follow in importance the Tower Angle and the Cascade to them. Elemsecondary entos are the houses of the old Zoo.

The walled Surface that forms the “Pairthat Sama” is of 14 Has.

The main stroll of entrance in front of the facade of the house, is format by two rows of bananas (Platanus Orientalis), more than 20 mts. of height. To two sides there are plantations of mandarinos ordered geometrically in picture.

To the right of way we can see a group of oaks (Quer-cus robur) of great size. in front of the house and alrededor of their seat, exists centennial trees, like a linden tree (Tilia Cordata) and several chasteus of Indians (Aesculus Hippocastanum), sheltering a precious source, with base of roca¬lla and pinnacle - jet, formed by shells of conches and giant clams; by I knew itrficie of the water floats nenúfares (Nymphaea Alba), alrede¬dor of the source is parterres Con high palms (Phoenix Canadensis) surrounded by groups of palmitos (Chamaerops Excelsa and Ch. Humilis) and some Washingtonia Filifera. Next to the good two marble bank-Baviera ejempl areplow of Brazilian Yuccas and a rarest tropical species of Wichichin-tum (original of the Brasil), both of more than 100 stops.

The left of the house, we can see an exotic pairterre, presided over by great jarro, enameled in rich colors, scenery with reasons for flora and fauna Eastern. This original piece comes from Vichy (France), anus 1.881.

In extrem Southeastern of the “Park”, descries Tower-Angle, maintained on a mountain of great pebbles that as well form a great vaulted cave. Parterres with pa completes this set two palmeras (Phoenix Canadensis) and the old house of the parrots, cover of ivy and you accompany to of precious a Eucalyptos White Globulo (Fam. Amirteceas). Next to - the Tower, and in the ex- on extrem opposed of the wall, Almezos are two (Celtis Aus-tralis), centenaries, of about 20 mts.

To the right of the house it excels a palm unit (Phoenix Dac-tylifera), of about 25 mts. Also they emphasize a pair of Pritchardias (Robust Washing¬tonia) and a Phoenix R1n covered of common green ivy, that it climbs up the trunks of the trees and palms hastto about two meters.

We arrived at the later facade of the house, that gives on a small square presidida by a strained iron source-jet of French origin. To beautiful am¬bos, two ejemplplow of Phoenix Canariensis. To the left, exotic parterre with groups of palmitos of all classes, where they emphasize a rare Blue Phoenix and a Phoenix Dactylifera. The central way this VORdeado of palms of several classes. In parterre to the left of this, there is exotic variedad of you hoist Philippine (Brochichintom), of graft and smooth trunk. Also it excels a gr.an cypress (Cupressus Sempervivens), of more than 30 mts. of height.

At the end of the way there is a group of the cedars (Cedrus Deadara) of ejem¬plares highest. Before arriving at the Lake, four singular pines excel: two Pinus Halepensis, and two Pinus Pinea, of 20 mts.

The Lake, with their Channel and Cascade, forms the most attractive center of the Par¬que. Its surface es of 1 Has. In him, there are three islands, connected by he¬chos bridges with cement imitating trunks of wood. In the central island, it excels a mountain of singular beauty, constructed with greats pebbles that in their interior form a grotto with wharf. On her, a viewpoint with templetand the set ends.

The island next to the bridge that it gives to the channel, contains a unit of Taxo-dium Dactara (of Mexican origin), very beautiful and of rare species in our country, about 20 mts. of height whose leaves you expire, of yellowish color in spring, green in red summer and in Autumn, they make him be, perhaps, the exotic tree but of the Park, since its peculiarity radica in which their roots grow and live within the water.

The channel is going to give an original one you crackto that it supplies from water to all the Lake. This, comes from an underground mine of 5 km. of longitE1nicas of the “Park”, without whose spring it would not be possible the life and existence of he himself.

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