Jardí de Monforte
Monforte Gardens—Jardins de Monfort—speak from the 19th century with a neoclassical whisper. The park sits on about 12,000 square meters in Valencia and is part of a historic arc that links a private orchard, the Hort de Romero, to a public, artistically laid-out greenspace. It was designed in 1859 by architect Sebastián Monleón y Estellés, commissioned by the Marquis of San Juan, Juan Bautista Romero Almenar, and later named Monforte after the family that owned it until 1872. A key thread here is transformation: it passed to the State in the 1940s, was declared a National Artistic Garden in 1941, and then became municipal property in 1970, with restoration work that revitalized both the palacete and the neoclassical layout, reopening to the public in 1973. …
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