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I confess I love trees. I really enjoy every single green corner of this city. After 8 years living here I’ve seen how some beautiful trees have disappeared from this very unique city’s scene. It’s a pity, I know.

It seems trees are not too attractive for some architects when they plan their projects. Sometimes is easy to miss the shadow some huge trees used to bring here and there; especially in the summer.

However I know a place where you can escape and hide from those annoying city noises, a place where you can sit anywhere to read peacefully or walking slowly over earthy corridors hearing the wind’s effect on tree’s leaves. I will tell you this secret, please keep it jealously, I’m talking about Turó Park, one of those very special and favourite corners I have.

Sometimes I play a sort of game, a kind of personal feng-shui. I try to find the right spot to sit and watch carefully, paying special attention to my most close environment. What a pleasure seeing how almost nothing’s happening. There’s just green leaves and me, maybe the birds, maybe some lovers, maybe the one you’re looking for too…

You won’t find this place. This place will find you like it did with me some years ago. It’s the perfect place to meet someone else or close some important business deal, having a first date or writing these notes. I would say more about Turó Park but there are so many things to keep quiet…

Before 1985 there were the ugly railways, as if the city was stabbed to death and was losing its bowels, but then an enlightened and visionary soul started turning it into a relaxing space.

This piece of Gaudian art was finished in 1991 by Beverly Pepper, who achieved the harmonic coexistence of nature and manly intervention to create a magic atmosphere that exerts a strange influence over people that go there for a picnic.

Be aware that there is something in the air in this park and sometimes picnics might turn into a roll in the hay.

It is also said though, that there is a dark mob that operates in this park stealing dogs in order to sell them to some labs that need living victims for their sinister tests and evil experiments with chemical products. At least they tried to steal the front tire of my bicycle almost in front of my nose :-/