Polish Cultural Garden — Attraction in Cleveland

The Polish Cultural Garden is located along East Boulevard just south of St. Clair Avenue. There are stairs at the back of the garden (next to St. John Paul II's bust) that lead down to the east bank of Doan Brook. Here, Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway is on the other side of Doan Brook. You can see the Doan Brook culvert associated with the Schweinfurth St. Clair Bridge. The garden on the East Blvd. level includes busts of: St. (Pope) John Paul II (Carlo Wojtyła)-canonized in 2014, Ignacy Jan Paderewski - world famous pianist, composer, statesman and humanitarian, Frederic Chopin - Poland's greatest composer, Marie Curie - Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist, Henryk Sienkiewicz - novelist & Nobel Prize laureate, Nicholaus Copernicus - astronomer & mathematician and Adam Mickiewicz - Poland's...

The busts surrounding the courtyard are those of pianist and statesman Jan Paderewski and composer Frederic Chopin, whose statues were dedicated in 1947; scientist and Nobel prize winner Marie Sklodowska Curie and writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose busts were unveiled in 1949, and poet Maria Konopnicka. Her bust was completed and unveiled in 1952. The 16th century astronomer Nicholas Copernicus also stands in the...

Bylem milo zaskoczony gdy podczas porannego joggingu natknalem sie niespodziewanie na Pana Pendereckiego a nastepnie na inne postacie upamietniajace nasza kulture i nauke gdy nagle moim oczom ukazal sie Pan Walesa lecz na szczescie okazalo sie przy lepszym zblizeniu ,ze to nasz Mickiewicz.Zabrzmialo to moze groteskowo ale prawdziwie. Polecam gdyz wokol znajduja sie ogrodki upamietniajace w sumie...