Queen's Park Savannah

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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Botanical Garden
Concert Hall
Cycling
Field
Flower Garden
Football Field
Park
Rest & Relaxation
Running
The world's largest traffic roundabouts, is the Queen's Park Savannah, known colloquially simply as "the Savannah". It occupies about 260 acres of level land, and the distance around the perimeter is about 2.2 mi (3.5 km). Once sugar land, it was bought by the town council in 1817 from the Peschier family (except for a small parcel near its centre that served as the Peschier cemetery, which remains in private hands). At first it was used as a vast cattle pasture in what was then the town's suburbs, but by the middle of the 19th century it had become established as a park. Until the early 1990s, horse racing was held frequently at the Savannah race track, and it also contains several cricket, football and rugby pitches. Apart from a ring of trees round its perimeter, the Savannah was never really landscaped, except for the small area in its northwest corner called the Hollows, a former reservoir now drained and planted with flowering shrubs.
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Aug 1, 2010
Very busy day and night!! Too many cars (doesn´t depend what time) and many people walking, running, jumping or only sitting in daytime.
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Love the lush greenery and colonial architecture
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