Polvoranca Park

The Polvoranca Park is placed within the municipality of Leganes, in the southern area of the Community of Madrid. With an extension of about 150 hectares, articulated across the move of the Recomba and the lagoons of Mari Pascuala and the Sisones, in its indoors it additionally has diverse thematic gardens, an arboretum, a botanical lawn, a Center for Activities and distinct sports activities tracks.

The Park is one of the twelve centers that the Network of Environmental Education Centers of the Community of Madrid has and is currently included into Bosque del Sur. The Park sits at the grounds of the historic village of Polvoranca, which arose all through the Middle Ages and on which a mayorazgo changed into later created. Of the village, whose economic activity turned into based totally on agriculture and cattle, best the ruins of the church of San Pedro and a few foundations of adjacent houses persist.