Cleveland's Cultural Gardens Map the World in a City Park
Cleveland's Cultural Gardens map the world within a single city park, a chain of individual gardens each honoring a different nationality that threads through the greenery of Rockefeller Park. Together they form a living tribute to the immigrant communities that built the city.
The gardens are a walk through Cleveland's heritage, each designed by and for a community, with statues, inscriptions, and plantings that reflect a homeland. Strolling from one to the next is a quiet lesson in the city's astonishing diversity.
Decades in the making and still growing, the gardens are among the city's most distinctive and least-touristed attractions. They reward the visitor who slows down enough to read the plaques and notice the details.
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