Parque Municipal de Cortes

The Municipal Park of Cortes, with some 25,000 m2 of surface and ninety plant species, is a unique garden in the Ribera Navarra in which its exceptional and centennial cedars of Lebanon stand out.

Thanks to its two ditches, it used to serve as the Castle's orchard in the past, also using the blanket irrigation system by flooding, which gave self-sufficiency to the construction. Tubers, vegetables, fruit trees, and greenhouses for vegetables and flowers were grown in various orchards; Corrals and chicken coops were also arranged.

At the same time, it was a recreational garden for the family of the Count of the Union; For this, it had gravel paths with a level higher than that of the plantations.

Next to the secondary entrance of the Castle was the winter garden, Italian in design, with a meadow used as a tennis court, which has now disappeared. The rest of the space followed the model of the English garden, in search of the beauty of a space in balance between the natural and the artificial, winding paths were arranged between exuberant and varied vegetation with small artificial hills.

In the mid-19th century, their own wine cellars were added, adding warehouses and the administrator's house to the complex.

On October 21, 1999, the Cortes City Council bought the Castle for its opening as a municipal park. Paths were then recovered, new entrances and toilets were created, the pond used for breeding swans was conditioned, the orchard was transformed into an open-air amphitheater, artificial mountains were added with the earth obtained from the excavation of the aforementioned cellar, and he arranged a large-format chess and swings as a play area.