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Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell
Passive park in Ponce, Puerto Rico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell (English: Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park) is a passive park in Ponce, Puerto Rico.[3] The park is named after the mother of ex-governor of Puerto Rico and Ponce native, Rafael Hernández Colón.[4] It opened on 9 December 1995.[1] The park was designed by Ponce architect Juan Dalmau Sambolín.[5]
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Location
The park is a passive urban family park. It is located in Ponce's Historic District, near several museums and parks, including the Ponce Massacre Museum and the Abolition Park. It features a number of kiosks that open on an as-needed basis (i.e., depending on the function taking place at the park) and a central stage where the Banda Municipal de Ponce stages free open-air concerts.[6] The location where the park now sits used to be occupied by Hospital Damas before it moved to its current location on Ponce By Pass on 6 May 1973.[7][8]
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History
The park was built in 1995 under the administration of mayor Churumba and, in the same year, it received the award for Outstanding Construction Work of the Year (Spanish: "Obra Sobresaliente del Año") from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico.[9] It was built with an original appropriation of $5.5 million.[7] Final cost in December 1995 was $11 million.[10]
Amenities
The park features gardens, a Mudéjar-style kiosk for the Ponce Municipal Band traditional Sunday concerts, a trolley stop, a restaurant, and food stands.[11] This Mudéjar-style kiosk is a smaller replica of the one built on Plaza Las Delicias, in 1882, but since demolished, for the town's 1882 Feria-Exposición.[12] It was designed by José Carlos Villaró, a Spanish architect from Málaga.[13]
The park also has an underground parking garage with two levels. In the first (top-most) level of the garage there is a Ponce tourist police station.[14] The parking garage has space for 400 vehicles.[2]
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