But the pandemic shifted the lens. Confined to their 50-square-meter pisos , Madrileños looked down at their window sills and then up at their rooftops. “We realized that the city was thirsting for life, not just movement,” explains Carmen del Val, a botanist and collaborator on the map (who asked to be identified by her online handle, La Hortelana del Centro ). “The mapa was a response to loneliness. People started tagging their geraniums, and then their neighbor’s roses. Suddenly, we had a community atlas of resilience.”
: Various artists offer paper-cut maps of Madrid’s streets as decor, such as the O3 Design Studio Paper-Cutting Map Go to product viewer dialog for this item. mapa de flores en las calles de madrid
: Edificio icónico ubicado en la , famoso por sus balcones repletos de plantas y su valor arquitectónico. Eventos y rutas actuales (Abril 2026) RUTA / Pasear en compañía vegetal But the pandemic shifted the lens
Mejor época: Mayo y Junio (con repunte en octubre) “The mapa was a response to loneliness
Lucía guardó el mapa en su libro y, antes de bajar la escalera en busca de la noche, dejó un nuevo dibujo en el margen: una pequeña flor azul bajo la nota "Para quien quiera volver". No firmó. No hizo falta: el mapa era ahora también suyo.
was the private estate of Don García de Barrionuevo de Peralta. His vast gardens were divided by the natural slope of the land into two distinct sections: the "high flowers" and the "low flowers."