Throughout history, all gardens appear as areas created by the reflections of lived cultures on physical spaces, which are transferred to future generations by people. Nation gardens are areas that provide recreational opportunities to the public, and they ensure that people are intertwined with nature, protect historical, natural and cultural values, improve the vision of the country reflecting the socio- cultural structure of the society and provide important contributions. These areas, which are binding between the past and the future, provide important information about societies for the study of the change and development processes of cultures. During the transition from traditional to modern society with Westernization in the Ottoman period, green spaces were differentiated in semantic, formal and functional terms. After the Tanzimat and reform edicts, with the new regulations, the concept of ummah and nation was united and only the concept of nation was used. In this scope, the Nation gardens was a subject in the Provincial Regulations. Nation gardens is a concept that symbolizes integrity. Since then, the understanding and practices of the nation garden have continued. In this study, the concept of the nation garden and the design criteria that should be in the garden of the nation based on the history, the project design and implementation stages of the 15 July Nation Garden of Kahramanmaras were examined. The method of study includes literature surveys, on-site examinations, history, projects and photographs taken on-site.