Visit a major city in the United States, and there is a good chance you could stumble across a “Little Italy,” some variation of the one found along Mayfield Road in Cleveland featuring fine dining, bakeries and the yearly Feast of the Assumption.

What you won’t find most places elsewhere is something like the Italian Cultural Garden a couple of miles away, celebrating Italian heritage in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens for nearly 100 years. Dedicated in 1930, the Italian Cultural Garden was initially created as “a symbol of the contribution of Italian culture to American democracy,” according to the cultural gardens.