Victoria Tower Gardens South

Victoria Tower Gardens is a public park adjacent to the Victoria Tower, which is part of the Palace of Westminster. You can see several monuments there, including a group sculpture "Townspeople of Calais" by Auguste Rodin. It was bought by the British government in 1911 and set up in the park four years later. There is also a statue of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and the Buxton Memorial Fountain, commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

Victoria Tower Gardens were founded in the years 1864-1870 as part of the Thames Embankment project, which aimed at developing the land on the banks of the Thames. At the end of the 19th century, the park was expanded to include about Dorset Wharf.

In 2015, the then Prime Minister of Great Britain announced that a new monument to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust would be built in central London. Despite discussions in the media and many objections in 2016, it was agreed that he would be in Victoria Tower Gardens, and in October 2017 his project was selected.