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Against plants in the big city

Garden

The Hanging Garden Hotel Mercure Santo Domingo is located in the heart of Madrid.Con over 1,000 m2 and over 110 species of plants inspired by the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Hanging Garden becomes the largest in Spain.

This new green space complete with a spectacular waterfall of 20 meters, a whole green architecture project that bsorbe 25,000 kg of CO2 per year.

Of great beauty stands in the heart of Madrid, located in the interior of the Hotel Mercure Santo Domingo, becomes a unique place in our country by their characteristics: traditional farming, with an area of 1.026 m2, 22.9 meters high and over 100 varieties of plants and non allergic seasonal flowers, shrubs, and most striking trees.

Besides beautify the Hanging Gardens is a sustainable project, significant environmental benefits, making it a design known as ecological art, eco-art and green architecture. Given the large number of existing plants, the garden promotes biodiversity and aims to encourage small nesting birds. The large volume and characteristics of the foliage make it a perfect weapon for sound absorption, given that most species are evergreen, so that the garden acts as insulation and soundproofing.

The Hanging Garden substantially reduce environmental pollution by its ability to absorb CO2. This project also minimizes the heat island effect, as it manages to reduce the temperature between inside and outside of the city between 6 and 8 degrees.

A green corner of this nature is able to provide the amount of oxygen you can consume 200 people a day.

Added to all these environmental benefits, do not forget the beauty of the plant compound and the Hanging Garden of the waterfall to your relaxation. Quite a metaphor in the great noise of the city of Madrid and the architecture of large building, a stark contrast in floral heart of the capital.

The spectacular waterfall drops 20 meters from the top of the garden, providing a point of exoticism. It is controlled by a computer program that allows mutliple options due to the different levels and heights of falling water. Its advanced night lighting system based on LED technology to create different settings, lighting and environments. Thus, the Garden has two distinct visions of the day and night.

This natural space is inspired by the beautiful Hanging Gardens of Babylon, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The use of a scaffold to create the hanging gardens of Santo Domingo was the brainchild of architect Felix Gonzalez Vela. The project involves a complex hidden behind the flora and vegetation.

The ease of work that provides the scaffolding structure that supports the garden, let it be a living project and constantly changing, and that may have seasonal flowers to create a different garden every day. The plants are all seasonally at each station are grown best suited to the climate of the time, ensuring year-round color. They are grown in soil, the traditional way, which together with its size, makes this project unique.

The investment for this project has been more than 380,000 euros.

Adeás, not just the 70 rooms that overlook this magnificent hanging garden, is offered by the Hotel Mercure Santo Domingo. Every corner is designed for the client to be surprised.

Its themed rooms make guests can travel without leaving the center of Madrid: part of the city that never sleeps, New York, immersed in an aquarium, ride with Don Quixote, live a surreal universe, or sleep under the stars on a hut a tropical island are among the options offered by the hotel.

It has 80 rooms on demand, where customers can choose from more than 80 types of environments and different sensations. T he bathrooms are custom, a relaxing aromatherapy shower while watching the Plaza Santo Domingo, through his glasses, which go from opaque to transparent with the click of a switch, a glass floor on a layer of pebbles and leaves dry, a marine grotto, each bathroom is a unique experience.

There are many places to live different emotions, the roof for summer nights, the Caves of Sand or with a relaxed and calm, ideal for sharing a drink after work or after dinner at his restaurant, Sand. Or their classrooms, under the Natura Hanging Garden, listening to music produced by the waterfall falling on the transparent roof, or the Belvedereyour window of about 30 meters and mobile glass roof, makes two unique spaces.