Shakespeare garden
A Shakespeare garden is a themed garden that cultivates some or all of the 175 plants mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. In English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, these are often public gardens associated with parks, universities, and Shakespeare festivals.- Type: Garden
- Description: type of themed garden
- Also known as: “Shakespeare Garden”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. American Museum of Natural History is situated 1,300 feet west of Shakespeare garden.
Belvedere Castle
Public building
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Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle is situated 350 feet southeast of Shakespeare garden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
Upper West Side
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The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and Central Park and Morningside Park on the east.
Upper East Side
Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0.
The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lincoln Square
Neighborhood
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Lincoln Square is the name of both a square and the surrounding neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Lincoln Square is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.
Shakespeare garden
- Categories: theme garden and recreation area
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.77982° or 40° 46′ 47″ northLongitude
-73.96996° or 73° 58′ 12″ westInception
1913Open location code
87G8Q2HJ+W2OpenStreetMap ID
way 429887431OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=gardenWikidata ID
Q7462839
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Shakespeare garden” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “莎士比亞花園”
- Esperanto: “Ŝekspir-ĝardeno”
- French: “Jardin shakespearien”
- Hungarian: “Shakespeare-kertek”
- Japanese: “シェイクスピア庭園”
- Korean: “셰익스피어 정원”
- Portuguese: “jardim Shakespeare”
- Portuguese: “Jardim Shakespeare”
- Spanish: “jardín de Shakespeare”
- Spanish: “Jardín de Shakespeare”
- Ukrainian: “Шекспірівський сад”
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Notable Places Nearby
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