Summer Garden — Attraction in Palace District

After spending a day going through the Winter Palace, Winter Palace Garden, Hermitage Museum, Palace Square, and Alexander Column, we were a bit zonked and need to rest. The Summer Garden seemed like the perfect place to recuperate. We were grateful for its peaceful atmosphere while walking through the trees and even more grateful for a bench to rest on.

Wheelchair users: You should also always call ahead to find out if there is wheelchair access to bars, clubs, museums, and restaurants. In most cases the answer, sadly, will be in the negative. Alternatively, assume it is inaccessible and hire a few people to lift you and your chair up the stairs, and then be sure to pay very generously for...

English version below.

Прекрасный недавно восстановленный сад. Там уютно, тихо, красивые фонтаны, аккуратные газоны и тропинки. Везде чувствуется атмосфера прошлых веков и людей, гуляющих в саду... Потрясающе! Если хочется на час отойти от шума большого города - вы нашли то самое место!

The garden was reconstructed few years ago and it has become a brilliant, cozy, calm and quite place to relax from the noisy loud city. The avenues, bushes and greens, fountains and summer houses - they all let you feel better and better. Don’t about monuments and atmosphere of 18th century that covers you on every step. Enjoy...

Really beautiful and busy place at any time of the year.Awesome statues and landscape one of most romantic places I have seen in city where is free entrance.Very good place to take wonderful pictures or for these who into drawing,draw something nice.It's very close to busy street but until you into garden,feeling like you somewhere far away from dusty,busy city.Really enjoy my time there and wish could visit it at summer and winter as well. p.s. no souvenir sellers makes it...