NATIONAL GARDENS
The National Gardens or Vassilikos Kipos (Royal Gardens in Greek as it was formerly known) is a peaceful, green refuge of 15.5 hectares in the center of the Greek capital. It is located directly behind the Greek Parliament building . . . . The Garden also encloses some ancient ruins, tambours and Corinthian capitals of columns, mosaics. etc. . . .. National Gardens Designed by Amalia, the first Queen of Greece, it is an oasis in Central Athens.

Henry Miller wrote in 1939 "It remains in my memory like no other park I have known. It is the quintessence of a park, the thing one feels sometimes in looking at a canvas or dreaming of a place one would like to be in and never finds."

Today the National Gardens, as they were renamed after the 1974 plebescite to abolish the monarchy, are open to the public from sunrise to sunset and provide a peaceful respite from the center city. . . . In the National Garden you will find: a duck pond, a small zoo, a Botanical Museum, a small cafe, and a Children's Library and playground.

SOURCE: NATIONAL GARDENS - ATHENS GREECE

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