El Bosque Encantado

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Description

Information

75 km from Spain’s capital city, in the municipality of San Martín de Valdeiglesias, is this original botanical garden with more than 500 plant species from all over the world, where you can also enjoy more than three hundred living sculptures made with shrubs in different sizes and with different themes by European topiary artists.

The garden also has a maze, different collections of cacti, bonsai, aromatic plants, minerals, a stream that tumbles into the Barbellido waterfall, fountains, light displays at night... All in the beautiful natural environment of Madrid’s Sierra Oeste.

The Bosque Encantado has free parking, toilets, drinks vending machines, and a bar with several terraces where you can enjoy something to eat and drink, open mainly on weekends throughout spring and summer.

The best way to get there is by car via the M 501 motorway, known as Autovía de los Pantanos, which takes you through beautiful landscapes along the way. Once you reach San Martín itself, the dirt road to the forest is between the two roundabouts on its small ring road, in front of a Romanesque chapel, so you don’t need to drive into the village itself. You can also take the bus. The number 551 leaves from Príncipe Pío station and will take you to San Martín. Once in the village, you can walk the kilometre to the forest or get a taxi.

FOREST ILLUMINATIONS

In summer, nights in the Bosque Encantado or Enchanted Forest are lit up with millions of colourful lights that make its 320 topiary sculptures twinkle. You can enjoy this nocturnal magic every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10pm to 12:30am

Services

Free car parking

Catering area

Botanical trail

Picnic area

Map

WHAT'S IN THE AREA?

Accommodations(4)

Restaurant(11)

Tourist Information(32)

Local Night(3)

Shop(16)

Sports center(20)

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Last updated:

11/01/2024

Practical information

Tourist info

Address

Camino

de Marañones, 217

28680

San Martín de Valdeiglesias

Tourist area

Near Madrid

Telephone

Fax

Web

https://bosqueencantado.net/

info@bosqueencantado.net

Metro

Bus

551

Cercanías (local train)

BiciMAD bike-share scheme

Price

Adults: €12

Children from 3 to 12 years old and pensioners: €8

Check other prices on the official website.

Times

Winter opening times:

Thu - Fri: 10:30am - 4pm

Sat - Sun: 10:30am - 7:30pm

Evening illuminations: 1 hour before sunset

Summer opening times:

Mon-Thu: 10am-4pm

Fridays: 10am–4pm / 6:30pm – 12:30am

Sat- Sun and Public holidays: 10:30am-12:30am

Evening illuminations: From 10pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (weather permitting).

Open picnic areas, with microwave, from 20th June onwards.

Mon-Fri: from 4pm

It can be accessed with pets on a leash.

Type

Parks and gardens

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