Visit Coruña

The gardens are located in the Old City. The place used to be a fort, protected by thick walls to store gunpowder for the city's defence.

In 1834, the city governor, Don Francisco de Mazarredo, transformed the fort into the present gardens with a romantic air.

Among old trees in the middle lies the Funeral Monument to British General Sir John Moore, mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 by the French troops under Marshal Soult.

On the walls are two poems to the General, one by Rosalía de Castro and the other by Charles Wolfe. Another plaque recalls the Duke of Wellington's words in praise of Galician soldiers.

From the balcony there is a magnificent view of the port and the city coastline.