Inaugurated in 1983, Parc de Joan Miró was built on the site of the city’s old slaughterhouse, which was demolished in 1979.
The park's design includes an artificial lake and water channels designed to cool the park; walking paths shaded by trees; gardens featuring a variety of native flora and fauna, and which were intended to encourage local biodiversity; as well as calm wooded areas populated by pine, poplar, palm, and holm oak trees.
The crown jewel and main attraction of the park is the eye-catching, 22-meter-high statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird) in the western quadrant of the park, which is covered in a colorful mosaic of ceramic tiles, and is instantly recognizable as Miró’s emblematic style.
