Giardini della Biennale (Venice) Giardini della Biennale (Venice) The Venice Giardini is an area of parkland in the historic city of Venice which hosts the Venice Biennale Art Festival, a major part of the city's cultural Biennale. The gardens were created by Napoleon Bonaparte who drained an area of marshland in order to create a public garden on the banks of the Bacino di San Marco which is a narrow stretch of water dividing the gardens from St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The gardens contain 30 permanent pavilions. Each pavilion is allocated to a particular nation and displays works of art by
Sir George-Étienne Cartier Square Sir George-Étienne Cartier Square Sir George-Étienne Cartier Square (officially in ) is a town square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Saint-Henri neighbourhood of the Southwest borough. It is a small rectangular square with a fountain in the middle, woods in the northern part and a pool in the southern part. It is surrounded by rowhouses. Named after politician George-Étienne Cartier, it was built in 1912 on the site of an old west-end slaughterhouse. When Saint-Henri was annexed by the city of Montreal in 1905, the construction of this square had been an election promise made by