Situated on the slopes of the Almáciga hill, this extensive park, inaugurated on 24 July 1994, was restored by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza and the landscape designer Isabel Aguirre.
The land was part of the Convent of Santo Domingos de Bonaval, transferred to the City Council of Santiago after the confiscation of 1836. The building is home to the Museum of the Galician People and the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, from which you can access the lower part of the park and the old convent orchard, where the visitor is welcomed by a sculpture named La puerta de la música (The Gate of Music), by Eduardo Chillida. The central part preserves the old cemetery, in use from 1837 to 1960, which is connected to Bonaval street through the so-called Porta da Memoria, and, in its highest area, the sculpture Espacio Crómlech Ocupado, by Leopoldo Nóvoa, was placed in 1998.
In the upper part of the park there is an oak grove with the remains of a mine and a washing place, as water was and is also a fundamental value of the land, carried by various channels from the grove to the lower part of the orchards, separated by a 35-metre drop.
Álvaro Siza's work received many architectural awards, which emphasise respect for the existing elements and their integration into the new landscape.
