esplanade

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Whenever I return to Batumi, which I’ve done five times, I always do three things: I stroll along the palm-fringed seaside esplanade, admiring the gardens first landscaped in 1881.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

There are also plans to redesign the esplanade, and to create a museum in the neighbouring Hôtel-Dieu hospital.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

The esplanade will be refurbished; visitors will no longer have to line up for tickets outside; and the permanent collections will be rearranged and rehung.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2023

More than 3,000 troops marched past the president and cabinet ministers in a display of pageantry on the central esplanade of Brasilia, where an estimated 30,000 people attended the annual event.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2023

But fate decided that my parents and I and the three wise men, as I shall call them, should meet one day on the Goubert Salai seaside esplanade and that my secret should be outed.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel