KENSINGTON GARDENS
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The garden. Kensington Gardens adjoins Hyde Park to create a complex more than 7.5 km long. The garden was originally the Kensington Palace garden chosen by William III and Mary II for their London home. But it was Queen Caroline, George II's wife, who, in 1728, gave the garden its present form by creating Lake Serpentine. It remained closed for much of the 18th century and gradually reopened for high society. It was after a series of improvements commissioned by Queen Victoria that the Italian gardens and the Prince Albert Memorial were created.
Peter Pan. The character invented by James Matthew Barrie is present in the form of a sculpture that all children will think of greeting each other with the promise that they will never grow up.
Albert Memorial. Located south of Kensington Gardens, this memorial is commissioned by Queen Victoria to commemorate the memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert of Saxony Coburg-Gotha. It is based on Sir George Gilbert Scott's plans in the neo-Gothic style. Prince Albert is depicted sitting surrounded by allegorical sculptures: four groups depict Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, technology and industry) and four groups illustrate the four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and America), each continent being adorned with an animal (the bull for Europe, the elephant for Asia, the camel for Africa and the buffalo for the Americas).
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