Anchoring a fashionable residential area of Georgian red-brick townhouses, Merrion Square Park is Dublin’s best spot to take a walk among trees and sculptures, read a book on the grass or otherwise find some peace and tranquility among the bustle of the city. In one corner of the park, you’ll find a statue of Oscar Wilde, who lived at 1 Merrion Square in the mid to late 19th century. The square is also famously the location of some of the city’s best festivals. If you’re in town in early June, try and catch the Street Performance World Championships, where jugglers, acrobats and other performers duke it out in a battle of all-out crowd-pleasing proportions.