Turisme d’Elx :: Palm Plantations

The Huerto del Cura, categorised as an artistic garden, covers 13,000m². Inside visitors can enjoy a harmonious combination of Mediterranean and tropical plants in an atmosphere of calm and tranquility while the palm trees, the garden’s true stars, endow it with its unique aspect.

Visitors can also contemplate the Huerto del Cura’s magnificent collections of palmaceous plants and cacti from all over the world which have become acclimatised to our climate. As well as palm trees, the Huerto del Cura is home to other typical Mediterranean trees such as lemon trees, orange trees, pomegranate trees, carob trees and jujube trees, together with other sub-tropical plants that have been collected over the years from the most exotic corners of the world.

However, due to its rarity, the Imperial Palm is the garden’s most treasured plant. This unique date palm, of exceptional symmetry and beauty, has seven arms sprouting from a single trunk. It obtained its name when Chaplain Castaño dedicated it to “Sissi” Empress Elizabeth of Austria on her visit to the plantation in 1894.

TICKET
Adults 5€ with audioguide, Pensioners 3€ Students 3€ Children 2,5€ (5 to 15 years) Groups 2,60€ (min 20 persons) Groups children 1,70€ (without guide and up to 15 years)

PHONE 96 545 19 36

OPENING TIME from March to October, from 09.00 to 19.00 hours or from 09.00 to 21.00 hours.
From November to February, from 09.00 to 18.00 hours.