{"id":5357,"date":"2014-08-05T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2014-07-24T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T11:51:55","slug":"benalmadenas-paloma-park-included-in-list-of-top-25-parks-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/local-news\/benalmadenas-paloma-park-included-in-list-of-top-25-parks-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Benalmadena\u2019s Paloma Park Included in Tripadvisor&#8217;s List of Top 25 Parks in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"sunsetbeachclub\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/local-news\/benalmadenas-paloma-park-included-in-list-of-top-25-parks-in-europe\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5358\" alt=\"Paloma Park in Benalmadena included in Top 25 parks in Europe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Top-25-parks-in-Europe.jpg\" width=\"489\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Top-25-parks-in-Europe.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Top-25-parks-in-Europe-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/>Paloma Park in Benalm\u00e1dena<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> has recently received an important award from Tripadvisor, the world\u2019s n\u00ba1 travel review site. We\u2019re delighted and proud to announce that our beautiful park located in the centre of the town is now included in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/TravelersChoice-Attractions-cParks-g4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Tripadvisor\u2019s 25 Top Parks in Europe <\/b><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">(n\u00ba24), a great bit of news to start off the busy summer season. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tripadvisor is recognised as one the world\u2019s most influential travel sites. In this second edition of its <b>\u2018Travellers\u2019 Choice Attractions Awards\u2019<\/b>&#8211; which honors top landmarks and parks throughout Europe &#8211; the travellers who leave reviews on Tripadvisor have decided that this 200.000 square metre park is worthy of a place in the Top 25 list and thereby become one of the most recommended parks on the continent!\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If we consider the number of parks and gardens throughout Europe, being chosen to form part of this exclusive list, together with world famous parks such as The Retiro in Madrid, G\u00fcell in Barcelona, St. James\u2019 Park in London, Jardins de Luxembourg in Paris or Vigeland Park in Oslo is a true honour for Benalmadena.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Benalmadena town hall will introduce various improvements to PalomaPark. The first of these is the <b>addition of two new members to the park\u2019s extensive family of animals<\/b>; a pair of donkeys named \u2018Dotty\u2019 and \u2018Milagros\u2019. They will have their own dedicated and fenced-off 300 square metre area which includes a small shelter. The peacocks, swans, hens and rabbits will be delighted to welcome these new friends :-).<\/p>\n<p><b>The second improvement will be the installation of an iron sculpture<\/b> created by Italian artist, Silvia Vendamel. It will be located in the stunning cactus garden with its more than 2000 plants and 250 different species.<\/p>\n<p>Have you visited <b>Paloma<\/b><b> Park<\/b>? It\u2019s now a distinguished member of the Top 25 parks in Europe so we highly recommend you take a stroll through its beautiful gardens next time you are in Benalmadena. And don\u2019t forget to say hi to \u2018Dotty\u2019 and \u2018Milagros\u2019! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Paloma Park in Benalm\u00e1dena has recently received an important award from Tripadvisor, the world\u2019s n\u00ba1 travel review site. We\u2019re delighted and proud to announce that our beautiful park located in the centre of the town is now included in Tripadvisor\u2019s 25 Top Parks in Europe (n\u00ba24), a great bit of news to start off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[154,1618,1769,1754],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-benalmadena","tag-paloma-park","tag-parks","tag-tripadvisor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunsetbeachclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}