Fort Canning Park
The Fort Canning Park on the Bukit Larangan hill specified in Singapore with about 18 hectares of land located between the Fort Canning Road (North), Stamford Road (northeast), the Clemenceau Avenue (west), the River Valley Road (south) and St. Victoria Street (east). It was named after Lord Canning .
The park is home to the Fort Canning Center, the Fort Canning Service Reservoir, the oldest Christian cemetery in the city, the ASEAN Sculpture Park (from 1981), the Battle Box (bunker from World War II and the rest of the former Fort Canning fortress ) , two Gothic gates, and the Spice Garden, the city's first botanical garden from 1822.
In 1823 Stamford Raffles built his house on the hill.
In a "19th Century Walk of History" in the Fort Canning Park cemetery, the early European residents of Singapore are remembered in the form of ten steles. Two steles commemorate German residents, one is that of Hans Hermann Eschke , the other is that of Jean Rudolph Lambert .
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Coordinates: 1 ° 17 '38.7 " N , 103 ° 50' 48.2" E