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Anton Scudier Central Park
Anton Scudier Central Park, formerly known as Stalin Park and Scudier Park, is an urban park in Timișoara. It was founded in 1870 by General and carried his name until the partition of Banat in 1919. In the early 1950s the park was called Stalin Park, then Central Park. It received its current name in 2015. History Between 1738 and 1771 there was a cemetery on the site of the current Central Park, where about 8,000–9,000 people were buried, most of them dead during the Plague (disease), plague epidemic of 1738–1739. After the arrangement of the cemetery in Calea Lipovei, the one on the site of the current park was closed, and in the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, General , as military commander of Banat, decided to transform the old civil and military cemetery into an English landscape park. The remains of those buried here were exhumed by soldiers and, after a religious service, were reburied in the cemetery in Calea Lipovei. The swampy and insalubrious land was drained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (United Kingdom, UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other municipal corporation, incorporated places that offers open space reserve, green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors. Urban parks are generally Landscape architecture, landscaped by design, instead of lands left in their natural state. The design, operation and maintenance, repair and operations, maintenance is usually done by government agencies, typically on the local government, local level, but may occasionally be contracted out to a park conservancy, "friends of" group, or private sector company. Depending on size, budget, and land features, which varies considerably among individual parks, common features include playgrounds, gardens, hiking, running, fitness trails or paths, bridle paths, sports fields and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
