1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
This NBS aims to enhance the grounds of the former San Rafael Cemetery through the development of an urban park for residents of the Cruz del Humilladero district (ref 3,7).
Quantitative targets
68205 m2 (ref 1)
4000 m2 of gardens (ref 3)
Green area of 104 trees, 8 palm trees and 400 shrubs (ref 3)
4 water deposit areas to be constructed (ref 3)
Creation of 2 ponds (ref 1)
4000 m2 of gardens (ref 3)
Green area of 104 trees, 8 palm trees and 400 shrubs (ref 3)
4 water deposit areas to be constructed (ref 3)
Creation of 2 ponds (ref 1)
Monitoring indicators defined
Rehabilitation and strengthening of green space (ref 3)
Effective storage and reuse of water (ref 3)
Biodiversity and green spaces criteria:
Percentage of surface with a degree of protection (ref 5, p 28)
Hectares of forested area (ref 5, p 28)
Hectares of forested areas with organizational projects and technical plans (ref 5, p 28)
Percentage of Protected Natural Spaces with Sustainability Plans. (ref 5, p 28)
Effective storage and reuse of water (ref 3)
Biodiversity and green spaces criteria:
Percentage of surface with a degree of protection (ref 5, p 28)
Hectares of forested area (ref 5, p 28)
Hectares of forested areas with organizational projects and technical plans (ref 5, p 28)
Percentage of Protected Natural Spaces with Sustainability Plans. (ref 5, p 28)
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Please specify "other Habitats and biodiversity conservation activity"
conservation area as historic memory: Building of a Historical Memory Pantheon to commemorate the victims in the communal graves exhumed from the grounds where the park now stands. (ref 1)
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What types of conservation goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Please specify "other Type of NBS project"
historical site : Building of a Historical Memory Pantheon to commemorate the victims in the communal graves exhumed from the grounds where the park now stands. (ref 1); commemoration site built over former communal graves containing more than 2000 bodies of victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Franquista regime. (Ref 3)
Implementation activities
Four planned phases involving the creation of two ponds, one of great dimensions, which has already been excavated in the first phase, and which will also function as a reservoir regulator of the irrigation network, and another, of much smaller dimensions, which serves to configure a Space more classic, taking advantage of the existence of an already consolidated woodland. (ref 1)
Planting new forested trees (ref 1)
Gardening of more than 4,000m² of green area with 104 shade trees, 8 palm trees and more than 400 units of shrubs, in addition to covering the rest of the surface with perennials and meadows (ref 3)
Building of a Historical Memory Pantheon to commemorate the victims in the communal graves exhumed from the grounds where the park now stands. (ref 1)
The latest phase, phase 3 was planned for 6 months, during which 8 400 m2 were rehabilitated. (ref 3)
Participatory process for the design of children’s area, and it was the schoolchildren of the CEIP Simón Bolîvar, Camino de San Rafael and Hernández Cánovas who decided by vote the model of these two areas: one of a forest nature and the other with swings and grass floor. (ref 1)
Planting new forested trees (ref 1)
Gardening of more than 4,000m² of green area with 104 shade trees, 8 palm trees and more than 400 units of shrubs, in addition to covering the rest of the surface with perennials and meadows (ref 3)
Building of a Historical Memory Pantheon to commemorate the victims in the communal graves exhumed from the grounds where the park now stands. (ref 1)
The latest phase, phase 3 was planned for 6 months, during which 8 400 m2 were rehabilitated. (ref 3)
Participatory process for the design of children’s area, and it was the schoolchildren of the CEIP Simón Bolîvar, Camino de San Rafael and Hernández Cánovas who decided by vote the model of these two areas: one of a forest nature and the other with swings and grass floor. (ref 1)
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Please specify technological innovation
The rehabilitation of the space from a cemetery site of communal graves to one for citizen use and access is a main point of transformation, as well as discussion and contention of the project. By converting the space into a public park, while keeping the memory of the site’s past the project provides a new product innovation. Yet is potentially very controversial. (no reference from 2017 cited)
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
Unknown
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
Unknown
6. Evaluation and learning
7. Sources
Please specify other source of non-financial contribution
2000 bodies of victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Franquista regime (Ref 3)
