Celebrity Park in Kielce in Poland has the perfect place, a public park with bust of the famous from around the world, as well as Polish personalities, an artist, a writer and a film director.
Some of the statues (alphabetical order by surname)
A-D
Ingmar Bergman, film director.
Marc Chagall, painter, of The Fiddler (inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof) and producer of stained glass windows in Notre Dame Cathedral, Rheims; Switzerland; Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; New York, Paris Opera house;
Charlie Chaplin, film star, silent movies
Salvador Dali, surrealist painter
Miles Davis, jazz player, 'Prince of Darkness'. Kielce also has a full size statue of him.
(See the post in this blog on Miles Davis.)
E-K
George Gershwin
Jimi Hendrix, guitarist. See his house Museum in London beside Handel's house museum.
James Joyce, author (1882-1941), Irish novelist, wrote The Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake.
Franz Kafka
Tamara Lempicka, artist
L-R
Edith Piaf, French singer. Famous song Je ne regrette rien.
Marilyn Monroe, film star, in "Some Like It Hot", married to playwright Arthur Miller
S-Z
Igor Stravinski
Wikipedia has articles on busts of people by country of origin, busts of Romans, busts of religious figures, even busts in Poland by city, but has not been updated to include Kielce.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Poland
Poster of Young lady with gloves by Lempicka can be bought from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce
https://www.cheapflights.co.uk/news/celebrity-park-where-to-see-jimi-hendrix-marilyn-monroe-and-
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