National Garden The garden, an oasis in central Athens, was designed by Amalia, the first queen of Greece
The National Garden (the former Royal Garden) (Greek: Εθνικός Κήπος, Ethnikós Kípos) is a garden in the center of the Greek capital of Athens, about 15.5 hectares. The garden is located directly behind the Greek Parliament building (former royal palace) and continues southward to the Zappeion area, opposite the Panathinaiko or Kalimarmaro Olympic Stadium of the Summer Olympics in 1896. There are also some ruins, columns in the garden and other objects. In the southeast there are busts of Capodistrias, the first head of state of Greece, and of Philhellene, Eynard, and on the south side some Greek poets, Dionysios Solomos, author of the Greek anthem, and Aristotelis Valaoritis.
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."
Translation:
"No park has nestled in this memory like this park. It's the example of what a park should be, that what you sometimes feel when looking at a painting or if you dream of a place you'd like want to be but you never find. " 37° 58′ 27″ NB, 23° 44′ 18″ OL
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