Peace Gardens
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The Peace Gardens are an inner city square in Sheffield, England. It was created as part of the Heart of the City project, under the jurisdiction of Sheffield One.
The Gardens themselves front onto Sheffield's gothic Sheffield Town Hall (not to be confused with the City Hall, a popular concert venue), creating a spectacular view as shoppers and visiters sit in the gardens
It has won many awards, and was one of the major sites responsible for Sheffield's gold in the Entente Florale 2005.
The aim of this site was as a public meeting space, it has fountains at the centre, and also around the outside. These are to represent the flowing molten steel, which made Sheffield famous, and also the water of Sheffield's rivers, the Sheaf, Don, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter, which were used to power the mills which drove Sheffield's industry
