Park Reserva Photo: Park Reserva

Parque de La Reserva is situated in the centre of Lima. His irregularly shaped area is located between two main streets, highway Paseo de La república and Avenida de Arequipa.

In a Park of 8 hectares, designed in neo-classical style by the French architect Kodama Shalom, you can see a large number of works by Peruvian artists. Before construction of the Park, this place housed a part of the exhibition is nearby a large Park. In 1926, at the direction of President Augusto Legia started the construction of the Park de La Reserva in honor of the soldiers who defended Lima in Tihookeanskoi war in January 1881. The construction of the Park was completed in 1929.

On site Parque de La Reserva in 2007 was opened the Fountain complex "Magic water" - El Circuito-Magico del Agua. This complex was part of a series of projects completed by the mayor of Lima Luis castañeda, Lossio, worth 13 million dollars. This project was criticized because of its costs and design, and also because of the need of a complete renovation of the Park has great historical significance. In addition, has been criticized and relatively high ticket price. But for the year of fountains to look at it it's 2 million people.

Currently, "Magic water" is the world record holder among fountains: the complex consists of 13 different fountains, many of which are interactive. All the fountains are lit at night with the ever-changing color scheme. The largest fountain sprays a jet of water to a height of over 80 m.

This eco Park has fountains fountain Tunnel de Las Sorpresas, it is a water tunnel with a length of 35 m. If you walk through the fountain-tunnel Fuente de Los niño that connects the two parts of the Park, you can get to the exhibition of recent public works projects in Lima. Another interesting fountain Fuente de La Fantasia - its jets synchronized with the music.

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