Jardines del Descubrimiento

Jardines del Descubrimiento (translated into English as Gardens of Discovery) is a park in the Spanish city of Madrid, located next to the Plaza de Colón.

Occupying an area of 1.87 hectares, the park is delimited by the streets of Goya, Armada Española, Serrano and Paseo de la Castellana.

The gardens have a quadrangular plan, divided into two large triangular-shaped sectors, between which a main promenade extends diagonally distributed.

They are made up of several wooded areas (olive trees, cedars and pines) and, initially, grass meadows, replaced in August 2006 by ornamental gravel, as a measure taken by the City Council of Madrid to save water and prevent leaks that occurred on the Cultural Center of the Town of Madrid (currently known as Fernán Gómez Theatre).

[2] Its main artistic value is found in the monument to the Discovery of America, whose author is Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, on its eastern side.

Part of the monument to the Discovery of America
Detail from the monument