National Garden of Athens

Why go

The Municipality of Athens describes the National Garden as a 19th-century landscape garden in the English style, whose construction began in 1839 under Queen Amalia and which first served as the garden of the palace that is today the Hellenic Parliament building. The municipality says the garden became state property in 1923, was run from 1927 to 2004 by a public body for public gardens, and has since been managed by the municipality, and that the Ministry of Culture declared it a historic site in 2011. Its page says visitors enter through the garden's gates and that when opening hours change, notices are posted at the entrances or on social media. This record is the garden as a whole; its map point is inside the garden, not at a gate.