Phoenix Park & Howth Head — Dublin's Natural Escapes

Dublin's natural spaces: Phoenix Park (the 707-hectare public park on the north bank of the Liffey, the largest urban park in any European capital city (larger than Hyde Park, Regent's Park, and the Bois de Boulogne combined), containing the herd of approximately 600 free-ranging fallow deer (established in the 1660s by the Duke of Ormond), Áras an Uachtaráin (the Irish President's residence), the US Ambassador's Residence, Dublin Zoo, and the Wellington Monument) and Howth Head (the rocky peninsula and fishing village 13 km north of Dublin city centre, accessible by DART suburban train).