{"id":8987,"date":"2010-08-12T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/8987"},"modified":"2010-08-12T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T06:30:07","slug":"the-lower-gardens-at-peterhof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8987","title":{"rendered":"The Lower Gardens at Peterhof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As impressive as the Upper Gardens are, the Lower Gardens at Peterhof are simply breathtaking. Fountains abound, with golden figures as their focal points. From the grand palace above, water plows down the grand cascade to a fountain depicting Samson and the Lion. From there the water flows through a channel\u00c2\u00a0to the Gulf of Finland. Elsewhere in the Lower Gardens is a fountain showing a Triton Fighting a Sea Monster, surrounded by small turtle fountains. A remarkable feature of Peterhof is that the individual fountains are not powered by pumps. The\u00c2\u00a0fountains are powered by hydrostatic pressure &#8211; the difference in height between the ponds that hold the water for the fountains and the fountains themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Samson-Overview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9002\" title=\"Overview of the Samson Fountain\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Samson-Overview-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Overview of the Samson Fountain\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Overview of the Samson Fountain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Overview of the Samson Fountain (St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Samson-and-the-Lion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9004\" title=\"Samson and the Lion\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Samson-and-the-Lion-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Samson and the Lion\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Samson and the Lion<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Samson and the Lion\u00c2\u00a0(St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Grand-Cascade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9005\" title=\"The Grand Cascade\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Grand-Cascade-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The Grand Cascade\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Grand Cascade<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0The Grand Cascade\u00c2\u00a0(St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Triton-Fountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9007\" title=\"The Triton Fountain\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Triton-Fountain.jpg\" alt=\"The Triton Fountain\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0The Triton\u00c2\u00a0Fountain (St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Turtle-Fountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9008\" title=\"Turtle Fountain\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Turtle-Fountain-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle Fountain\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Turtle Fountain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Turtle Fountain (St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As impressive as the Upper Gardens are, the Lower Gardens at Peterhof are simply breathtaking. Fountains abound, with golden figures as their focal points. From the grand palace above, water plows down the grand cascade to a fountain depicting Samson and the Lion. From there the water flows through a channel to the Gulf of Finland. Elsewhere in the Lower Gardens is a fountain showing a Triton Fighting a Sea Monster, surrounded by small turtle fountains. A remarkable feature of Peterhof is that the individual fountains are not powered by pumps. The fountains are powered by hydrostatic pressure &#8211; the difference in height between the ponds that hold the water for the fountains and the fountains themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8987\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,238],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-st-petersburg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2kX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}