The Thousand-Year Theatre
A circular space walled by clipped elms.
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Walk south from Gustav Adolfs torg about twenty minutes along Regementsgatan, or take a short bus. Malmo is a serious cycling city and completely flat, so hiring a bike from a public station makes it a five-minute trip and lets you link the park with Kungsparken and the castle in one circuit.
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Pildammsparken is Malmo's largest park at close to forty-five hectares, and its origin was not ornamental: the two large ponds at its centre were the city's drinking water reservoirs, dug in the seventeenth century, hence the name meaning the willow-pond park. It became a public park in the 1930s with a design combining free English planting and strict geometric forms. Its best-known element is the Thousand-Year Theatre: a sunken circular space ringed by rows of precisely clipped elms forming a living wall, used for summer concerts and giving the feeling of standing inside a roofless hall. The rest is wide lawns, running paths around both ponds, a rose garden, a seasonal cafe and playgrounds. It is emphatically a residents' park — family gatherings, summer barbecues, skating on the frozen pond in a hard winter — about twenty minutes' walk south of the city centre.
A circular space walled by clipped elms.
Running and walking loops round the historic reservoirs.
Pildammsparken, 214 34 Malmo