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Park Avenue, Kochi, is a famous tree-lined road starting from Gandhi Round to Broadway. The road is located in Park area where several famous historical buildings are located. It is the most beautiful road with more than 45 flowering trees planted on both sides of the roads, making a thick canopy over the road. This 1 km stretch was considered to be a model road for Kochi City. == History == The idea of the new road came up in 1903, when Kochi Maharaja Rajarishi Rama Varma(1895–1914), was travelling to attend the Kochi Durbar. The king was well known for his deep passion for gardening and nature. He felt need of beautiful tree-lined roads similar to those in Europe and America. He directed the Diwan to lay a new park where the public can unwind in evenings. Thus a new park came up in the open space opposite Shiva temple facing sea, named as Rama Varma Park. The king ordered for beautifying the road bordering the park with various variety of flowering trees like Gulmohar etc. The king even passed a law prohibiting any person cutting down the trees, even branches without sanction of Royal court. The beauty of road impressed the Hon.British Resident of Kochi, that he renamed the street as Park Avenue. The beauty of stretch was so impressive that several important institutions were later established in this stretch. This includes the Kochi State Legislature Assembly Building (current Law college), Kochi Royal Huzur Cutchery (Secretariat- the current Taluk Office), Raja's court of Appeal (current Ernakulam District Courts), Royal Medical Office (current DMO office), Diwan's Bungalow (current Government Guest House), Ernakulam Mayor House (current Corporation of Cochin office) and St.Teresa's College. These were in addition to the existing major structures, the Maharaja's College and Ernakulam General Hospital. The annual Durbar processions which normally used to take place in Chitoor Road, was later shifted to this stretch. The road has seen several major agitations as part of Indian Independence movements. In the 1930s, the students of Maharaja's College lead a major agitation against Kochi Kingdom which was brutally suppressed with help of armed police. The Park was the main venue for Civil Disobedience movement in Kochi. It was for the first time, a major agitation called against an Indian princely state, which spearhead Indian National Congress to spread Independence movement into princely states. The Park Avenue was one of the first place where Aikya Kerala Vedi (Forum for United Kerala) started its agitations for uniting 2 princely states of Kochi and Travancore. On August 15, 1947 the Park witnessed the ceremony lowering of Kochi Kingdom's Flag for fluttering Indian Tricolour as per Kochi Raja's directive (who was the first Indian prince to join Indian Union willingly). After Independence, the road was taken over by Ernakulam Municipality and retain in the same way as desired by its founder- Maharaja Rajarishi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Park Avenue (Kochi)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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