曾經是繁華的火車站變身成熱帶花園
在這裡，有蜿蜒的小徑和花園內有這多長椅，可以用一杯咖啡和一本書來浪費時間的美好，被鬱鬱蔥蔥的植物包圍，遠離馬德的混亂，你會忘記你在一個繁華的火車站。
這裡是在西班牙馬德里，曾經是舊的Atocha火車站，1992年廢棄後，成為熱帶溫室花園，這花園有260多個物種7000多個植物。
在這植物園你會看到很多原產於熱帶的植物，有古巴的皇家棕櫚樹、桃花心木、巴西的橡膠樹、菲律賓的香蕉樹、馬達加斯加的旅人蕉與日本銀杏樹。
樹冠下有咖啡、可可、南非天堂鳥、墨西哥龜背芋、食肉植物等。
這裡也是許多北美與南美淡水烏龜的家園，這些烏龜是被棄養的寵物龜，被主人拋棄野外後，被當地生物學家從馬德里水溝救出，並沒有當做入侵種實施安樂死，而是給了二次生命，將他們安置在花園睡蓮池中。然而，在2018年春天，由於過多的烏龜繁殖變的過度擁擠，已把一些龜送到附近的野生動物園。
The winding paths and many benches within this garden make it the perfect place to kill time or hunker down with a cup of coffee or a book. The lush greenery is a wonderful escape from the chaos of Madrid. It’s so serene, you’d be forgiven for forgetting you’re in a bustling train station, surrounded by commuters dashing around to catch their trains.
This verdant garden was inaugurated in 1992. It fills an abandoned section of the building that was once the old Atocha train station before the transportation hub was expanded to include its high-speed train links. The sprawling garden contains 7,000 plants from more than 260 species.
In the arboretum section, you’ll find many plants native to tropical forests. Here, you’ll wander among breadfruit and coconut trees from Polynesia, royal palms and mahogany trees from Cuba, rubber trees from Brazil, banana trees from the Philippines, critically endangered palm bottle trees from the islands of the Indian Ocean, and an impressive traveler’s tree from Madagascar.
The plants in the garden’s lower section are also originally denizens of the tropics and include African coffee plants, Central American cacao plants, and South American Heliconia flowers. A few stranger plants such as carnivorous plants, the Mexican fruit salad plant, South African bird of paradise flowers, and the endangered Ginkgo biloba plant from Japan can also be found growing here.
The water lily ponds used to be home to numerous North and South American freshwater turtles that were former pets. After the turtles were abandoned by their owners and thrown into the wild, biologists rescued them from Madrid’s waterways. Instead of treating them as invasive species and euthanizing them, the biologists gave the turtles a second shot at life and set them up in a fancy new home within the garden, where they wouldn’t cause any harm to members of the native Iberian ecosystems. However, in the spring of 2018, the turtles were relocated to a nearby wildlife park due to overcrowding and overpopulation of the ponds.
Know Before You Go
Entrance to the station is free. It's open Monday through Sunday from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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