Basilicas Park silver maple ("A. saccharinum"), European hornbeam ("Carpinus betulus"), cherry plum ("Prunus cerasifera"), European beech ("Fagus sylvatica"), French oak ("Quercus robur"), several species of elm ("Ulmus"), black poplar ("Populus nigra"), European black pine ("Pinus nigra"), London plane ("Platanus × acerifolia"), and pagoda tree ("Sophora japonica"). Basilicas Park Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II ("Pope John Paul II Park"), best known by its historic name Basilicas Park (Parco delle Basiliche in Italian) is a city park of Milan, Italy, located in Zone 1. It owes its name to the fact that it connects two major basilicas, the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the
The Old Tree in 1900 in the Pavilion de l'Alma and the "La Plume" salon - in "La Revue Blanche", Felicien Fagus wrote: The Old Tree The Old Tree is a plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as part of his "The Gates of Hell" project. He produced it in 1885, only a year after the formation of the Salon des Independents. It measures 39.3x38.4x27 cm and shows a nude young woman clinging to an old man holding his arms out like a tree, contrasting several opposites - male and female, youth and age, softness and roughness. The work