Juan Carlos I Park ( es, Parque Juan Carlos I) is a major municipal park in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
,
Spain
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. The park was named after
King Juan Carlos I
Juan Carlos I (;,
* ca, Joan Carles I,
* gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...
. The park contains many modern sculptures.
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.
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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)
*Tribute 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
External links
Parque Juan Carlos I
Parks in Madrid
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