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      With kids: the zoo and Central Park

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A historic zoo with hippos, lunch at a restaurant with a kids’ room, a puppet theatre in a church and the rides of a former royal park.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
      👶 under 3, 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The paths in the zoo and Central Park are paved, and Prospekt Mira has wide pavements.

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        ✨ Kaliningrad Zoo
        пр. Мира, 26
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        A historic zoo founded in 1896 — also an arboretum with pre-war sculptures and rare trees.
        Start in the morning: in October the zoo is open until 17:00, with entry until 16:00. Visit the hippos — Hans the hippo survived the storming of the city in 1945.
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        • The Königsberg zoo was founded in 1896; it now has the status of a historic zoo, like those in Moscow and St Petersburg.
        • According to one account, only four animals survived the war — a fallow deer, a donkey, a badger and a hippo.
        • Hans the hippo, hit by at least seven bullets, was nursed back to health by the zoo technician Vladimir Polonsky.
        • The zoo is also an arboretum: a relict ginkgo tree grows here.
        • At the entrance are animal sculptures from the 1950s, restored in 2019–2020.
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      3. 2
        🍽 Skazka restaurant · 🧸 play area
        пр. Мира, 31
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        Lunch across the road: a kids’ room, pirozhki (small pies) and oven-baked borshch.
        🍴 A modern Russian restaurant with a kids’ room, a stone’s throw from the zoo. What to order: oven-baked borshch, a basket of pirozhki (small pies), choux buns with smoked trout and sprat rillettes, grilled mackerel.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Queen Louise Church (Puppet Theatre)
        пр. Победы, 1
        A Neo-Gothic church of 1901 at the entrance to Central Park, now home to the regional puppet theatre.
        The puppet theatre in the former church — shows are usually at weekends, tickets at the box office.
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        Queen Louise Church (Puppet Theatre)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Queen Louise Church (Puppet Theatre)
        © Ирина Ермоленко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built in 1899–1901 in memory of the Prussian Queen Louise; the architect was Friedrich Heitmann.
        • After the war the building stood in ruins for a long time, and in the 1960s there were plans to demolish it.
        • The architect Yuri Vaganov converted the church into a puppet theatre, which opened here in 1976.
        • There are two floors inside: an exhibition hall downstairs and the auditorium upstairs.
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      7. 4
        🌳 Central Park
        пр. Победы, 1 / пр. Мира
        🚪 entrance from Pobedy Avenue
        🆓 free entry
        The former royal park of Luisenwahl: Parkovy Stream, shady paths, rides and a bandstand.
        The park has rides, a Ferris wheel and playgrounds, and the paths are good for scooters.
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        Central Park
        © Valdis Pilskalns · CC BY 3.0
        Central Park
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Central Park
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Central Park
        © Anton Yefimov · CC BY 3.0
        • Before the war this was Luisenwahl Park: at the end of the 18th century its owner named it after his wife Louise.
        • In 1808–1809 the park was the summer residence of the Prussian royal family; Queen Louise was especially fond of it.
        • In 1914 Wilhelm II gave the park to the city.
        • The park covers about 47 hectares, and Parkovy Stream runs through it.
        • The bandstand was restored for the city’s anniversary in 2005.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Peperoncino pizzeria · 🧸 play area
        ул. Елены Ковальчук, 3–9
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        Pizza and pasta at the family pizzeria with a kids’ room by the park exit.
        🍴 A family pizzeria with a kids’ room by Central Park. What to order: wood-fired pizza, pasta, the children’s menu; there are sometimes kids’ workshops at weekends.

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