Elysian Fields
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceElysian Fields may refer to:
In mythology:
- Elysium, Paradise; In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields were the final resting place of the blessed chosen by the gods; Part of the Greek underworld .
In geography:
- Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, site of the first organized baseball game
- Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans
- Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris.
- Elysian Fields, Texas is a rural community in Harrison County, Texas.
- In Mexico City, Campos Eliseos is a street in the Polanco neighborhood where several of the city's best hotels and restaurants are located.
- Elysian, Minnesota of Le Sueur County, Minnesota is a town of 550 residents.
- In Nova Scotia, Canada, a rural community near Minudie, on the Bay of Chignecto.
- Nyack, New York has a street named Elysian Avenue.
- Campos Elíseos is a popular name for neighbourhoods and districts in Brazil, found for instance in São Paulo and Duque de Caxias.
- There is a frozen sea on Mars called Elysium.
In the arts:
- A song by British electronic music band The Future Sound of London
- Elysian Fields (band), an American Art Rock band.
- The Elysian Fields (band), a Greek black-metal band
- The street in New Orleans that is a setting and a symbolic element in A Streetcar Named Desire
- A song by American heavy metal band, Megadeth
- A fictional territory in the BattleTech universe.
- A song by Irish Post-rock band God is an Astronaut
- The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) a movie, Starring: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger; Director: George Hickenlooper
- A song Champs-Élysées by Joe Dassin
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