Parks of Arnhem
These corona days I spent either in Loosdrecht with my brother or in Arnhem with my sister, 2 very different places.
In my previous blogpost I showed a bit of Loosdrecht and its surrounding area, very rural and in a way classic Dutch.
Arnhem however is a big city in the East, but still with lots of older sections and some beautiful parks of which we visited two yesterday.
Angerenstein Park has a long history, going back all the way to 1487 as a private estate, but it only became public about 20 years ago.
The weather was perfect for some walking tru the parks while keeping social distancing in mind...
I better stop rambling on and let the pics speak for themselves...
The next park we visited was just across the road: Sacré Coeur
Sacré Coeur Park dates from 1883 and has been a public place since 2001.
Here too various massive trees - some over a 100 years old - can be found and admired.
Special in this park is the landart-object ‘Sawah Belanda’ which consists of several stone book pages.
The texts showcase various aspects of Dutch Indonesians' lives which make for unsettling reading, but eye-opening at the same time, I found it a very effective way of getting parts of 'unknown' history across.
At the gate of Angerenstein...
More info about the above 2 parks and art can be found here:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Angerenstein
https://www.angerenstein-arnhem.nl/historie/landgoederen/landgoed-angerenstein/
https://www.visitarnhem.com/overzicht/tuinen-en-parken/1809372892/park-sacre-coeur
https://niekravensbergen.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/in-arnhem-ligt-een-sawa/
