The Singapore Cenotaph is an eighteen-meter-tall granite memorial that you can recognize by the sarcophagus-shaped structure crowning its top. It stands in Esplanade Park, marked by sculpted lion heads and bronze tablets that record the…
Civic District Colonial Monuments
Walk through the historic heart of Singapore where modern governance began, visiting grand civic structures and memorials that define the island's colonial era.
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1. Singapore Cenotaph
2. Tan Kim Seng Fountain
The Tan Kim Seng Fountain is a three-tiered cast-iron structure standing seven meters tall in Esplanade Park. You can distinguish it by its Victorian style, featuring four sculpted Muses in its lower bowl and four faces of Poseidon that…
3. Lim Bo Seng Memorial
The Lim Bo Seng Memorial is a white marble, octagonal pagoda rising twelve feet high, topped with a three-tier bronze roof and guarded at its base by four bronze lions. Located in Esplanade Park, it is the only war memorial in Singapore…
4. Raffles' Landing Site
Raffles' Landing Site is distinguished by a white polymarble statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, who stands with his arms folded near the bank of the Singapore River. The site is intended to mark the spot where Raffles first stepped ashore on…
5. Asian Civilisations Museum
The Asian Civilisations Museum is housed in the historic Empress Place Building, a neoclassical structure built in eighteen sixty-seven that sits along the banks of the Singapore River. During the colonial era, this building functioned as…
6. Victoria Theatre
The Victoria Theatre is recognizable by the fifty-four-metre clock tower that rises between two neoclassical buildings, joined by a common corridor. Built in two stages, the complex began in eighteen sixty-two as a Town Hall designed by…
7. The Arts House at the Old Parliament
The Arts House at the Old Parliament is easily identified by its neoclassical white facade and the bronze elephant statue standing in front of it. Built between eighteen twenty-six and eighteen twenty-seven, it is the oldest surviving…
8. National Gallery Singapore
The National Gallery Singapore is defined by its massive, shimmering roof of glass and aluminum panels, supported by tree-like columns that bridge two of the city's most historic buildings. This expansive art institution occupies the…
9. St Andrew's Cathedral
St Andrew’s Cathedral is a gleaming, white Gothic revival structure that rises above the surrounding cityscape with a high, slender spire. It is the oldest Anglican house of worship in Singapore and serves as the mother church for dozens…