Juan Carlos I Park Explained

Juan Carlos I Park
Alt Name:	Parque Juan Carlos I
Map:	Spain Madrid#Spain
Map Label:	Juan Carlos I Park
Area:	160ha
Operator:	City of Madrid

Juan Carlos I Park (Spanish; Castilian: Parque Juan Carlos I) is a major municipal park in Madrid, Spain. The park was named after King Juan Carlos I.^[1] The park contains many modern sculptures.^[2]

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.^[3]

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)
Monument 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)

External links

Parque Juan Carlos I

Notes and References

Web site: Scolovsky. Jerome. Spain's Royal Family Under Fire. National Public Radio. 10 October 2007. 12 March 2009.
Web site: Juan Carlos I, un parque arquitectónico. es. El Mundo. 26 December 1998. 12 March 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20020602212529/http://www.elmundo.es/1998/12/26/madrid/26N0032.html. 2 June 2002.
" METROROCK." El País. 23 June 2006. Retrieved on 12 March 2009.