Here, a 260-metre wooden Treetop Walk carries you through the canopy, ranging from 1.5 to 15 metres above the ground. Added in September 2019, it was designed by Carlos Castanheira in collaboration with Álvaro Siza Vieira and creates a new way to study the park’s fauna and flora. At ground level, the 18-hectare park wraps around Siza Vieira’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Contemporary artworks share the grounds with northern Portuguese trees, including oaks, birches, and yews. This landscape was assembled over more than a century rather than made in one sweep. In 1932, the Count of Vizela commissioned architect Jacques Gréber to design the Casa de Serralves garden; the grounds also retain a nineteenth-century garden and the Quinta do Mata-Sete.
The wider Serralves institution unites this park with a contemporary art museum and an Art Deco villa. Siza’s museum is Portugal’s second-most visited museum. That meeting of designed landscape, architecture, and art is what makes Serralves distinctive: all three belong to the same cultural institution.
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