The Parque Grande de Zaragoza, also known by its official name the Parque José Antonio Labordeta was our walking route for two mornings while we stayed in that city. The second morning I went alone, as my husband and son had different plans, each of them. Perfect, I used that time to go back to the park and hunt something that my husband spotted the previous day.
Just to clarify, I have not gone hunting for pigeons, squirrels, or the people who used the park to run. I didn't want to harm anyone so no special weapons were needed, but it was a hunting time for sure. The statue of Neptune showed me the direction where I should start with my activity.
Go to the right, find the wide path with the trees and benches and start shooting. But no, not that bench! It is just an ordinary one. We need the painted ones!
Without a map or navigation, but just following the suggestion of Neptun I found a very nice part of the park, with a few parallel paths. There was also a little water canal in the middle, probably part of the irrigation system, though I didn't investigate more about that. My goal was to find the benches that my husband saw yesterday, and to my joy, I found a lot more benches than we thought there were.
Let's start with the hunt then. If you want you can join me. There is one bench already, close to this point where we stand now.
Banco de la salud. (Health bench)
Banco de la amistad. (Friendship bench)
Banco del amor. (Love bench)
I found the message of this bench in my native language. There were words in many languages and as we in Hive are from all over the world, I hope you can find your own language here.
Banco de los niños. (Children's bench)
Banco de la igualdad. (Equality bench)
Banco de la solidaridad. (Solidarity bench)
Banco de las personas mayores. (Bench of the elderly people)
Banco de la naturaleza. (Nature bench)
Banco de la gastronomía. (Gastronomy bench)
Banco de la educación. (Education bench)
Banco de la moda. (Fashion bench)
Banco de la diversidad. (Diversity bench)
Banco de la alegría. (Happiness bench)
Banco del arte. (Art bench)
There were several sections of these painted benches. I noticed that there were older benches and newer ones, and the style was not always the same. The little information board by the benches was not the same either.
So, leaving behind this part of the park we are going to the other side, where I found a few of those without a name.
The name of this one could be easy to guess. It would probably be Respect, though I didn't see any little plaque with the confirmation of it.
A few nice benches are still here to be shown. The one we see above was Banco de Zaragoza renacentista (Renaissance Zaragoza bench).
Banco de Pablo Gargallo. (Pablo Gargallo bench)
Banco de la salud y el deporte. (Health and sport bench)
Banco de la gastronomía aragonesa. (Aragonese gastronomy bench)
Banco de la jota. (Jota bench)
Banco de Zaragoza moderna. (Modern Zaragoza bench)
Banco de la huerta Zaragozana. (Zaragoza orchard bench)
Just behind the main walking route in the park, there was a little space, a section that looked like a mini park. There I hunted several items for this collection of benches.
Banco del pilar. (Bench of the pillar)
Banco del cine aragonés. (Bench of Aragonese cinema)
Banco de los cabezudos . (Bench of of the big-headed?)
Banco de Pablo Serrano. (Bench of Pablo Serrano)
Banco del Ebro. (Ebro bank)
Banco de Goya. (Bench of Goya)
I still have a few photos of benches that I left out as there are too many of them... You would be tempted to sit on each one but that would be a problem then. We are here to walk, as it is time for Wednesday's Walk, but in any case, I hope you liked to see these artistic benches from the Parque Grande in Zaragoza.
Do you have a favourite bench from this post?
