Stanley Park is a public park in the town of Blackpool on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England. It is the town's primary park and covers an area of approximately 104 hectares. The park was designed to include significant sporting provisions, along with formal gardens, a boating lake and woodland area. It was designed and built in the 1920s, under the eye of Thomas Mawson.
View of the Stanley Park's Italian gardens and art deco cafe
Ironwork over a Stanley Park gate
Woodland walks through Stanley park
One of the new Medici lion statues
The Medici lions are a pair of marble sculptures of lions: one of which is Roman, dating to the 2nd century AD, and the other a 16th-century pendant. Both were by 1598 placed at the Villa Medici, Rome. Since 1789 they have been displayed at the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. The sculptures depict standing male lions with a sphere or ball under one paw, looking to the side.
Fancelli's ancient lion
Vacca's lion
The Albani lion, a similar ancient sculpture, now at the Louvre
The original Medici lions at the Villa Medici (Giovanni Francesco Venturini 1691)