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I share in the Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia these photographs of the orchard that is the beautiful park of Alameda de Cervantes, in Soria.
Here the squirrels run around and interact with the visitors who offer them food. Because it has even a hermitage inside, that of the Virgen de la Soledad, to which pilgrims come to keep her company.
The books are distributed throughout the park on cute and practical cubic shelves. It also has a merry-go-round and a tree wrapped around the spiral staircase of a temple.
At the end of the park there is a huge meadow, whose grass the Santiago Bernabéu or Camp Nou stadiums would like for themselves.
It covers an area of almost ten hectares, making it one of the oldest public gardens in Spain and Europe. The people of Soriano know it as La Dehesa, in memory of what it once was, a pasture for the livestock of the former inhabitants of the city.
Its official name, Alameda de Cervantes, dates back to 1905 and is due to the tribute that the city paid to the greatest figure of Spanish literature on the occasion of the third centenary of the publication of Don Quixote.
