Grădina Icoanei Park
Leafy nineteenth-century garden on a drained pond, with winding gravel paths and a fountain.
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This guide to Grădina Icoanei in Bucharest goes back to the swampy pond that once sat on this spot, the little Bucureștioara stream that rose from it, and the fever and diphtheria in the streets around it. It follows the residents' petitions, the engineers and gardeners of the eighteen seventies, and an official who wanted only straight rows of acacias and lindens. Best heard near the fountain, on the gravel path.
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