Set in a large block, the Floridablanca Garden was the first public garden to be opened in Spain

It currently occupies 11,330 square metres in the heart of the Barrio del Carmen, one of the most traditional areas of the city.

The Floridablanca Garden was the first public garden to be created in Spain, around the same time that Charles III opened up an area of the Royal Site of El Buen Retiro to the inhabitants of Madrid.

Monuments have been placed in the Garden, making it an evocative space of the city's history over the last three centuries

In the Garden there is a monument to the Count of Floridablanca, José Moñino y Redondo, who was a Spanish politician who held the post of Secretary of State between 1777 and 1792 and presided over the Central Supreme Junta, created in 1808. It also has a monument to the poet Jara Carrillo, the monument to Selgas, the bust of the sculptor Antonio Garrigós and in the middle of its flowerbeds is the doorway of the old abattoir from 1748, as a decontextualised access gate, as it was moved in 1848 from the nearby Plaza de la Paja, where the city's abattoir was located.