It is an outdoor track cycling, opened in 1903, and used to be the most important velodrome built in Spain for six decades until the construction of the Velódromo de Anoeta (San Sebastián) in 1965.

[8] Like the rest, its construction was technically deficient (it was reopened two times more to make up for its shortcomings) and Veloz Sport Balear (one of the tenants of the track) thought of building an enclosure of higher quality, in addition to doing it on their own land guarantee its durability.

The first stone of the Tirador was placed on 4 December 1898, but various circumstances (mainly lack of liquidity) interrupted the works on several occasions and prolonged them for almost five years, until the velodrome was inaugurated on 10 August 1903.

[11] Despite this, the cycling fans in Mallorca were going through a period of crisis and the amateur only responded to the big events, so during the rest of the year in the precinct was practiced all kinds of sports, especially football.

In 1920, Veloz Sport Balear planned to replace the runway with a covered velodrome of greater capacity and functionality due to the success of the contested events, similar to Vélodrome d'Hiver of Paris (the Vél d'Hiv); but nothing happened, and the track remained the same.

[14] From the 1950s, some projects were created to replace the velodrome with other facilities of greater capacity and functionality, once the worst postwar years were overcome, because of gradual aging of the Tirador.

The moment of greatest danger was the ambitious municipal project planned in 1960s by the mayor Màxim Alomar to cover the torrent of Sa Riera that crosses the city and passed by the side of the track, but that was finally discarded due to its high cost.

[15] The opening of the Velódromo de Anoeta (San Sebastián) in 1965, with the celebration of the World Championships the same year, marked the beginning of its decline.

Its increasing deterioration and the generalized loss of interest in track competitions to the detriment of road cycling forced its definitive closure in March 1973.

The last rehabilitation projects in collaboration with the Spanish or Balearic federations did not succeed and the construction of a new velodrome in the neighboring town of Algaida in 1975 buried it definitively in oblivion.

In 1999, paddle courts were built in the central space and a parking lot for the users, for which the runway was mutilated at the height of one of the cantons to allow access for the vehicles.

[19] The design of the park, in line with a project by Manuel Ribas i Piera and approved in 2002, contemplated the disappearance of the track, except for the Xalet of Gaspar Bennazar.

When the expropriation took place in 2015, the Palma City Council had replaced the initial design of Ribas i Piera with another that maintained the historic installation integrated in the future green area, plus the annexed site of the old Canòdrom Balear (an old greyhound track).

The new design was in charge of the architect's studio Isabel Bennasar Félix and the green area was named Bosc Urbà (Urban Forest).

[29][30] Due to the lack of maintenance until the expropriation of 2015 was final, the facilities underwent an accelerated process of degradation until finding themselves in an unfortunate state of neglect and dirt, in addition to the presence of squatters.

The track has a rope of 333.33 m and 6m wide, with two solid concrete banks (facing east and west) and stands on each side of the straight lines: main (north) and general (south), with capacity for approximately 2,000 spectators.

As a result, the central space has an approximate area of 110 by 33.3 m.[33] At the beginning of February 1918, Veloz Sport Balear undertook works to improve the facilities that included fixing the track, redoing the walls that surrounded it and renovating the covered grandstand on the Ponente canton, until then provisional.

In addition to serving as a grandstand, it also provided a cafeteria and terrace service for members, offering a privileged perspective of the cycling events that were held there.

But it never was highly successful, mainly due to the lack of resources of the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation to confront the company and the superiority of other countries in the economic sphere, logistics and sports.

The failing of projects for its extension or substitution (first) and the relative abandonment (after) in the 1950s were already qualified to the track as old-made that the Tirador remained almost unchanged as is since its inauguration, except surface arrangements for its basic maintenance.