Pavilion at Saint Stephen’s Green
Saint Stephen’s Green is one of Dublin’s largest parks out of the several it already has. It is a surprisingly breath of fresh air in a crowded city center. I think this is to be expected from a city as old as Dublin. Older cities tend to have these large squares or in this case parks which serve as the city’s lungs or just a place for them to walk around. Saint Stephen’s Green has an interesting origin. Back then it wasn’t the nice park it is right now. Dublin wasn’t as large then as it is now. The place where Saint Stephen’s Green is now, used to be swampy land. In a stroke of genius, the city government, then known as the Dublin Corporation, decided to fence out the what would be the park and sell the land surrounding it for development.
Great Day at Saint Stephen’s Green in Dublin
It worked. Soon Georgian style houses were built around the park and it became known as a place for the rich. Back then, Saint Stephen’s Green was reserved for the residents until it was opened to the public in the latter 1800s. By then it has come to resemble the park we know today. The park is still surrounded by fences but there are now gates where visitors can enter. Around the park are nice houses, sadly though the old Georgian houses which we once here were no more to be seen.
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