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
Freedom Square (Kharkiv) Freedom Square (Kharkiv) Freedom Square (, "Plóshcha Svobodý"; , "Plóshchad' Svobódy") in Kharkiv is the 8th largest city-centre square in Europe. Upon the Soviet takeover the square was named Maidan Dzerzhynskoho () in 1926 after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka, precursor to the KGB). It is depicted on maps of Kharkiv of 1938. After the independence of Ukraine it was renamed Freedom Square. During the brief German occupation the name of the square changed twice: in 1942 the square was named German Army Square, and in 1943 Leibstandarte SS Square. The main part of