In Pagrati the first public Japanese Garden in Greece
The Municipality of Athens created the first public Japanese Garden in Greece in the Nereid Park in Pagrati, just behind the building of the National Gallery. The inauguration of the Japanese Garden was held yesterday by the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakoyannis, in the presence of the Ambassador of Japan, Yasunori Nakayama, and other officials.
The garden was created with the kind sponsorship of JT International Hellas through the program Adopt Your City. The Japanese Garden is enclosed by Michalakopoulou, Nereidon and Vassileos Alexandrou Avenues.
The park was created under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy and has an area of 4,000 sq.m. It is a process that followed the typology and symbolism that a Japanese garden should have in its design, with a culture and tradition of about 2,000 years.
Individual themes refer to various features of Japanese culture, philosophy and history. In addition, 40 new trees, 3,000 new shrubs were planted in the park, the water supply system was restored, more than 170 cubic meters of concrete were removed from the curbs inside the park. 350 cubic meters of fertile organic soil were also added.
The visitor walking in the park can enjoy a difference special elements such as the dry torrent that refers to the rivers that cross the volcanic mountains of Japan and end in small ponds, the welcome pine with a granite living room, artificial hills to the side of Michalako. for sound insulation planted in forest pines, pergolas with wisteria (a kind of Japanese flowering plant).
On the north side of the park, the visitor can enjoy the different textures and colors of Japanese jasmine, as well as the cherry blossoms that give the famous Japanese “cherry blossom”.
COSTAS KORELIS