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The statue was intended as a symbol for better times in the new millennium, and was erected in two days from December 25–27, 2000 in a spot once occupied by a statue of Lenin. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Statue of Sofia is named after the capital of Bulgaria, which in turn is named after the Saint Sophia Church .
City Garden: The City Garden is Sofia's oldest and most central public garden, in existence since 1872. It is located between Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard to the north, Knyaz Alexander Battenberg Street to the west and Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko Street to the south, in the historical centre of the city. Vitosha park and mountain
Statue of Alexander Hamilton: Lincoln Park: 1952 () John Angel: Sculpture: Bronze: Chicago Park District: More images: Statue of Alexander von Humboldt: Humboldt Park: 1892 () Felix Görling Sculpture: Bronze: Chicago Park District: Bronze Cow Statue: Chicago Cultural Center: 2001 () Peter Hanig: Sculpture: Bronze: Height: 4.5 feet (1.4 m ...
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago.Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
Choose Chicago is the official tourism organization for the city. [5] In January 2012, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched Chicago's new tourism organization, Choose Chicago. [ 6 ] The Mayor's vision was to restructure all tourism sales and marketing activities under a single, streamlined agency, and outline clear and measurable objectives to ...
The district was first settled in 1833, when Mark Noble Sr. built his house northwest of Chicago, Illinois. However, the area remained sparsely populated when the Chicago and North Western Railway built a station there in 1864. The Norwood Park Land and Building Association (NPLBA) formed in 1868 to purchase 860 acres (350 ha) of farmland with ...
Grant Park map. Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.Located within the city's central business district, the 319-acre (1.29 km 2) park's features include Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum Campus.