The world's largest urban garden has appeared on the roof of the Welligton Hotel in Madrid. Vegetables and fruits, as tomatoes, hot peppers, zucchini, eggplant, greens, chard and strawberries, grow on the 325 sq.m area and then dish up to hotel guests, ee24.com reports citing idealista.com.
The urban garden on the Velázquez street in Madrid was opened in March 2014. Its creation took 1800 bags of ground from Tudela (Navarra), 80 kg each, Land was specially brought. Irrigation takes 20 liters of water that accumulates due to drop system.
Manuel Moratel, the head of the Wellington Hotel, came up with the idea of urban garden on the roof. The best-known restaurateur Florent Domesain, head of Raíces restaurant in Zaragoza, is responsible for it.
The Wellington Hotel in Madrid