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 | | The opening of the Italian Garden was on October 12, 1930, during a joint celebration of Columbus Day and the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil. |
 | | The garden is in the Italian Renaissance style with an upper garden that has a large circular fountain and a lower garden with a double shell fountain upon which six medallions of Italians such as Giotto and Petrarch are located. |
 | | The Italian, German, Lithuanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian gardens were established in 1930; the Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Yugoslav gardens in 1934; and the American, Russian, Irish, Greek, and Syrian gardens in 1938. |
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