Río Manzanares
Madrid is embarking on a mammoth infrastructure project, where six kilometres of the city’s innermost motorway are to be moved underground along the stretch where the road runs on both sides of the River Manzanares. The area thus reclaimed for urban life is to be redesigned as an active park. A Park Emerges: The Parque Manzanares Madrid is not a city we associate with nature. It was not founded on a major river, a lake or a seacoast, and no large park conveying a sense of identity was ever planned as part of the city. “Operation Manzanares” is making it possible for the city to finally acquire a central green space. It is as though the body of the city were being opened up and given space to think and breathe. We see the Parque Manzanares as part of a greater system of natural spaces, it is the urban section of a long green space linking two great areas with each other. They are the Sierra de Guadarrama range in the north and the Tajo river valley in the south. The long-term project envisions transforming the full length of the former M30 motorway into an area with parkland and public facilities.
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