Englischer Garten (Munich)

The Englischer Garten or "English Garden" is a large urban public park that stretches from the city centre to the northeastern city limits of Munich, Germany. It was founded in 1789 by Benjamin Thompson, who is also known as Count of Rumford (German: Reichsgraf von Rumford). With an area covering 3.7 km², the Englischer Garten is one of the world's largest urban public parks.

It is bigger than New York's famous Central Park but smaller than the Phoenix Park in Dublin, which is the biggest city park in Europe. The name refers to the style of gardening; the term English garden is used outside of the English-speaking world to refer to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in the United Kingdom from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century, and is particularly associated with Capability Brown.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englischer_Garten_(Munich)
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Coordinates:  48°9'53"N 11°36'21"E