Kyiv City Park

The regular garden, which laid the foundation for the future City Park, appeared in Kiev in the XVII century. Peter I himself took part in its creation, by whose order several vineyards and fruit trees were planted on the left bank of the Dnieper.

On the basis of this garden in 1763, a park was built, called the Royal Garden. His ensemble was created by park masters Fock and Hofmeister under the leadership of the famous Bartolomeo Rastrelli. In the garden were laid alleys, built arbors, greenhouses, planted many trees brought from all over Ukraine. The area of the park in which the Dynamo stadium stands today was called the "Valley of Roses", on the site of the stadium in those days there was a lake.

By the end of the XIX century, the Royal Garden is in decline. During a large-scale reconstruction, in 1902-1912, the park was divided in two by the Petrovsky Alley, over which the openwork park bridge was thrown. In the valley of roses was opened cafe-shantan "Chateau de Fleur", which attracted a huge number of the Kiev public.

Today, the City Park is part of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation of Kiev stretching along the entire embankment of the Dnieper.