The Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the largest urban enclosed parks in the world. At 1760 acres it is larger than Central Park in New York and Hyde park in London. The park is home to the president of Ireland and contains the police headquarters. In addition, the Phoenix Park boasts the third oldest zoo in the world (opened in 1830).

I don't know, but Phoenix park in Dublin is the largest inner-city park in the Europe and Rouge Park, Toronto is the largest natural environment park in an urban setting in North America.

Santiago, Chile has one of the largest urban parks in the world (722 hectareas or 1785 acres), just located in the downtown of this cosmopolitan 6-million people metropolis. It's called "San Cristobal Hill". This lush park includes a zoo, a cable car, international gardens and restaurants. Ideal for tourists, , outdoors sports, trecking, hiking, mountain bikin, panoramic swimming pool (Chilean summer, seasons are reversed). At the top of San Cristobal Hill, there are spectacular panoramic views of the city. Crowning the hilltop are beautiful tiered gardens and an impressive 45ft (15m) statue of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception that can be seen from most points in the city. (For Christians: here are open-air Religious services every Sunday noon). The climate is pleasant due its Mediterranean regime, similar to LA or Southern Europe, just consider that seasons are the opposite in Chile. How to get there? Easy by subway (Metro Baquedano) is excellent, clean and cheap. It costs about 50cents a ride and the french-modern train seems to always come in a few minutes. I hope it helps. More info: http://www.parquemet.cl

Santiago, Chile has one of the largest urban parks in the world (722 hectareas or 1785 acres), just located in the downtown of this cosmopolitan 6-million people metropolis. It's called "San Cristobal Hill". This lush park includes a zoo, a cable car, international gardens and restaurants. Ideal for tourists, , outdoors sports, trecking, hiking, mountain bikin, panoramic swimming pool (Chilean summer, seasons are reversed). At the top of San Cristobal Hill, there are spectacular panoramic views of the city. Crowning the hilltop are beautiful tiered gardens and an impressive 45ft (15m) statue of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception that can be seen from most points in the city. (For Christians: here are open-air Religious services every Sunday noon). The climate is pleasant due its Mediterranean regime, similar to LA or Southern Europe, just consider that seasons are the opposite in Chile. How to get there? Easy by subway (Metro Baquedano) is excellent, clean and cheap. It costs about 50cents a ride and the french-modern train seems to always come in a few minutes. I hope it helps. More info: www.parquemet.cl

In my opinion it 'Phoenix Park' in Dublin is definetely not the largest inner-city park in the Europe. Poland is in Europe as well and 'Silesian Culture and Recreation Park or Voivodship Culture and Recreation Park' located in Katowice (Poland) is the biggest city park in Europe. Its area is 620 hectares (1532,055 acre). Which means that this park is much more bigger than Phoenix Park. This park has got much more to offer as well: Silesian stadium which hosts national football matches, motorcycle speedway world championships and music festivals, Planetarium, Zoological Garden with dinosaurs valley, Ethnographic Park, Amusement Park, International Trade Hall, Swimming pool complex, Water sports centre, tennis courts, restaurants, cafes etc. Moreover its got Poland's largest rose garden, home to over 30,000 and one of the most beautiful in the world. There is also 'Elka chairlift' which is an unique city chairlift in Europe. It's running in a huge triangle up to 20m above the park between the Silesian Stadium, Amusement Park and Planetarium and carring up to 1,300 people every hour at a speed of 1,6 m per second. This chairlift is 6 km long

Chapultepec (the woods of Chapultepec) is the largest urban park in the Americas. With an extension of 2,000 acres (800 Ha), it is considered the second in the world after some other in Beijing. In its three sections, it encloses: 1. One of the most important and renowned anthropology museums in the world. 2. The only REAL castle in the continent (actual kings lived there, in Chapultepec Castle, when Mexico was an empire ruled by the Habsburgs from Austria), now Museum of National History. It was previously a resting place for aztec emperors. 3. A theme park 4. A zoo 5. Four World- class hotels (J.W. Marriott, Presidente, Nikko and W Hotel) 6. The National Auditorium, with capacity of 10,000 expectators 7. "Los Pinos", the President's House 8. Campo Marte, a military base where the National Guard is trained 9. Four more museums: Modern Art, Natual History, Technology and The Children's museum (called Papalote). It is noticeable that Mexico City has more museums than any other city in the world. 6. Three excellent restaurants. The best one is "El Lago" (the others are Meridiem and Café del Bosque) 7. Two lakes It's been an important scene for many important national events. No wonder it's nominated for being in the World Heritage List (it's not already in the list because we Mexicans tend to be messy and wreck all our valuable landmarks. The woods are endangered but civil efforts are bringing the park back to life) For more information: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapultepec http://www.chapultepec.com.mx/

CHAPULTEPEC, in Mexico City, 2.5 times bigger than Central Park in New York, and with many more things to do... You should go some day. It's pretty cool.

bitsevski park in moscow (russia) where i work is 2200 hectares and it's not the biggest one even in moscow - there are 2 bigger parks.

Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is 9200acres in the hills of Philly. It has many wooded valleys, hills, rivers, hiking and mountain biking just to name a few things. I've just moved to the area and started to explore, it is truly amazing since it is within the city limits of a major urban area.

I dont know what katharsis is talking about Silesian Culture and Recreation Park in Poland is the second largest city park in Europe (620 hectares)The Phoenix park in Dublin is the largest (712 hectares). At this moment I am in Parque Metropolitano in Santiago and its really beautiful.