National Garden

The National Garden is a 15.5-hectare public park in the center of Athens, Greece. The garden is located between the Kolonaki and Pangrati districts, behind the Greek Parliament building and continues south to the Zappeion district. The garden contains ancient ruins, columns, capitals, mosaics and other decorative elements. It was commissioned by Queen Amalia in 1838 and opened to the public in 1840. The garden also houses busts of Ioannis Kapodistrias and Jean-Gabriel Einar, as well as famous Greek poets Dionysios Solomos and Aristotelis Valaoritis. In 1920, an unusual event took place in the garden, which influenced the history of Greece. In the 1920s, the garden was opened to the public and renamed the National Garden. The garden has ancient ruins, a museum of botany, a cafe, a children's library and a playground.