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Fort Canning is a small hill more than 60 meters high in the southeast portion of the island city-state of Singapore. It is originally known as Bukit Larangan or &quot;Forbidden Hill&quot; in Malay. According to ancient history, local settlers were wary of ascending the hill as they believed it was the site of palaces built by their ancestral kings.&nbsp;

Fort Canning Park offers a variety of recreational activities, historical, educational, entertainment, and cultural experiences. The park also serves as an essential green lung for Singapore&#39;s downtown area. The unique blend of historical relics, lush greenery, and expansive lawns has made Fort Canning a hub of cultural and artistic activity.

It has been a venue for staging various outdoor events and activities like theatre carnivals, starlight cinemas, art festivals, Ballet Under the Stars performances, Shakespeare in the Park, WOMAD, Singapore&#39;s largest music festival, a regular feature of the park&#39;s calendar of events since 1998.&nbsp; NParks search keywords. For any notifications please see our noticeboard. Close the Announcement Bar Make sure you enter the right URL. To return to our homepage, please click here SHARE

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Fort Canning Park

Singapore Botanic Gardens is located at the heart of the city of Singapore. It is the most iconic garden in the green-obsessed city-state. The garden demonstrates the evolution of a British tropical colonial botanic garden that has become a modern world-class scientific institution used for education and conservation.

Since its creation in 1859, its cultural landscape includes a wide variety of historic features, plantings, and buildings that demonstrate the development of the garden and has been an important center for science, research, and plant conservation, notably in connection with the cultivation of rubber plantations, in Southeast Asia since 1875.&nbsp;

In addition, it showcases the region&rsquo;s most significant living collection of tropical flora with more than 10,000 types of plants. It was inscribed as Singapore&rsquo;s first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.&nbsp; NParks search keywords. For any notifications please see our noticeboard. Close the Announcement Bar Make sure you enter the right URL. To return to our homepage, please click here SHARE

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Fort Canning Park

Singapore Botanic Gardens