The Icon’s Garden (Grădina Icoanei) is a small urban park in central Bucharest. The triangular-shaped park is named after the nearby Icon’s Church.
In the location of the current park, there used to be a pond with its own water source, which covered an area of about 20 hectares. Between 1832 and 1846, the so-called Icon’s Pond was drained as part of the urban development of the area. Between 1870 and 1873, the park was laid out based on the plans of the architect Karl Kuchnovsky and with the help of the the horticulturist Louis Leyvraz.
At the entrance of the park there’s a statue of George C. Cantacuzino-Râfoveanu (1945-1998) with a female character at the base of the statue. The monument is the work of the French sculptor Ernest Henri Dubois and was inaugurated in 1904. In another corner of the park stands a buste of the poet Adrian Păunescu (1943-2010) who lived near the park. The monument is the work of the sculptors Ioan Deac-Bistrița and Dragoș Neagoe and was inaugurated in 2012.
Although the park is relatively small, it’s a nice and quiet green space in the city with lots of trees and plants. There’s also a children’s playground, two small ponds, a dog park, and there are two restaurants.
In the southwest corner of the park there’s the Anglican Church of Bucharest, and across the road to the east of the park is the Sala Toma Caragiu of the Bulandra Theater.
