Tapgol Park (탑골 공원)
Tapgol Park(탑골 공원) eski adiyla Pagoda Park 19,599 m²’lik küçük bir alani kaplar. Halka açiktir. Park, eskiden Wongaksa Tapinagi’na aitti. “Tap” kelimesinin anlami “pagoda” demektir. Park adini Wongaksa Pagoda’dan alir.
Tapgol Parki, 1 Mart 1919 harekâtinin kaynagi sayilmaktadir. “ Ilk Kore Bagimsizlik Bildirisi” Tapgol Parkinda okunmustur. Bu bakimdan tarihte çok önemli bir yeri vardir.
Park, daha önce 15. yüzyilda Budist tapinaginin bir bölümüydü. Bu sebeple parkta Budist kalintilari görmek mümkündür.
Bahçe, Irlandali bir danisman olan John McLeavy Brown tarafindan 1897 yilinda düzenlendi. 1910 yilinda da halka açildi.
Parkta vatanseverlere ve Japonlarin acimasizliginin kurbanlarina hitaben pek çok anit, heykel vardir. Koreli vatansever olan ve Kore bagimsizlik bildirisini okuyan Han Yong-un’u temsil eden bir heykel de vardir.
Adres: 97 Jongno-gil, Seoul, Güney Kore
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English
Tapgol Park, formerly Pagoda Park, is a small (19,599 m²/23,440 yd²/4.84 acre) public park located at 97 Jongno-gil (street), Seoul, South Korea. This park was once a site of Wongaksa (Buddhist Temple). The word tap means "pagoda", and the park gets its name from the Wongaksa Pagoda, a 10 storied stone pagoda (National Treasure No.2) located in the park.
Tapgol Park is historically important as the site of the origin of the March 1st Movement 1919, an important part of the Korean independence movement as the first location for the reading of the Declaration of Independence.
It was previously the site of a 15th century Buddhist temple, and a 10 storied stone pagoda and a few relics of the temple still can be seen in the park. It was organized as a garden by John McLeavy Brown, the Irish advisor to provincial subdivision in 1897, and opened to the public in 1920.
There are many statues and monuments in the park, dedicated to various patriots and victims of Japanese brutality. There are a number of bas-relief statues representing Korean patriots, the Declaration of Independence Monument, and a poem by Han Yong-un.
Address: 97 Jongno-gil, Seoul, South Korea
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