Miniature Botanical Garden

For many years, La Glorieta has been a place to relax and take a stroll for both locals from Águilas and visitors to the town. Its beautiful garden, shaped by various projects and renovations from past centuries, gives the square a natural look that undoubtedly enriches it and enhances it culturally and socially.
Notable for their size and longevity are the ficus trees, planted in pairs at the four corners of La Glorieta. The ficus on the north side of the square are Ficus macrophylla, known as centenarians, as they were planted around 1915. Meanwhile, the ficus on the south side of the square are Ficus elastica, planted between 1939 and 1940.

However, its botanical value is not limited solely to its striking ficus trees; this garden is home to a wide variety of plant species that give the square a very unique and distinctive landscape. In fact, to many people’s surprise, the centenarian ficus trees are not the oldest specimens in this square. Rather, as a remnant of the first or second planting carried out in La Glorieta, we still have the two araucarias—specimens that, already quite old, watched the centenarian ficus trees grow. The Canary Island pine may also be in similar conditions and, together with the araucarias, would be the three oldest specimens in La Glorieta.