Upper Garden of Peterhof

The formal garden before the southern front of the Grand Palace was laid out under Peter I, when the ground still held a kitchen garden and fish ponds. Five fountains stand along its main axis, namely the Mezheumny, the two Square Ponds, the Oak Fountain and the Neptune, whose seventeenth-century bronze group of Nuremberg work was bought for Peterhof at the end of the eighteenth century. The ponds of the garden form part of the water system that feeds the fountains of the Lower Park by gravity alone.

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