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Washington Square Park finds itself, of course, in the city of the Big Apple, but it´s known around the world. It was the stage of various films and its cement floors keep many stories of the city of New York.
This park finds itself on the island of Manhattan, at the south of it, and it´s visited by a university crowd because close there´s the famous University of New York. The district is called Greenwich Village and it´s a beautiful place to walk and see.
Washington Square Park finds itself where the cemetery of the city used to be, but because this grew so much, it had to be transported towards another place further on. That´s how, after this happened, they built a cement park there.
The work started in 1826 and, from that moment on, it became one of the city´s most famous parks. Various people very day meet there to play chess while tourists from all over the world observe them.
The striking thing about this park is that it has very few green spots, but it does have monuments like, for example, the great Arc de Triomphe in the honour of George Washington, or the sculpture of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
If you´re in the city because you rented apartments in New york visit this park because you´ll love it.
