The Padang as it is today - a swathe of green in front of the National Gallery - dates back to the early 1820s. The British carved out the space by flattening the land there.
Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced its gazetting as a national monument alongside three historic bridges along the Singapore River, as part of efforts to commemorate the Bicentennial.
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