Prado Park

The largest of Montevideo's six major public parks is Park Prado. It was founded in 1873 and encompasses an area of 106 hectares in the barrio of Prado. The Miguelete Creek flows through the Miguelete neighborhood and park in the city's northern outskirts. Beyond the Botanical Gardens sits the Presidential House. Rosedal, the rose garden, is surrounded by the avenues Agraciada, Lucas Obes, Joaqun Suárez, Luis Alberto de Herrera, Castro streets, and José Mara Reyes. The park features four pergolas, eight domes, and a fountain, as well as 12,000 roses brought from France in 1910.

The Prado houses two museums. The Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, which opened in 1930, is housed in a Palladian villa that has been designated a National Historic Monument since 1975 and features a Japanese garden. In 1902, the Professor Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Gardens were founded. The Prado also houses the National Institute of Physical Climatology and its observatory. Across the Miguelete Creek from the Blanes Museum, in the Paso de las Duranas district, is a smaller park area known as Prado Chico (Little Prado), which is considered an extension of the Prado Park.

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