Bench under an olive tree, Enchanted Forest, Camino de Marañones, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

            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:

Taken on: September 30, 2023

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