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Phoenix Park
One of Europe's largest enclosed city parks, where herds of wild deer roam, with the president's house and the zoo.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the zoo
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Phoenix Park, Dublin 8Directions
- Getting There
- Bus 46A or the Luas to Heuston, then a walk.
Why Go
Laid out as a royal deer park in 1662, it covers about 700 hectares. Fallow deer graze its meadows, and Dublin Zoo, one of the oldest in the world, is inside.
Rent a bike to get around it.
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