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      Central St Petersburg by stroller, no stairs

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2.6 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A flat route through the center for strollers: New Holland with lawns and cafés, a boulevard, Alexander Garden and Palace Square — no steps and no underpasses.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture
      👶 under 3, 3–6 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      Admiralteyskaya has no lift — get to New Holland by taxi or by bus to Truda Square. There are no stairs on the route: gentle bridges lead onto the island, and you cross Palace Square at street level.

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        🌳 New Holland Island
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2
        🚪 entrance from the Admiralty Canal Embankment
        🆓 free entry · The island is free; some exhibitions and events are ticketed
        An 18th-century artificial island with brick timber warehouses, lawns, cafés and a pond.
        Lawns, a pond and playgrounds on the island; the frigate “Peter and Paul” is for older children and runs in the warm season. Quiet on weekday mornings.
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        New Holland Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Anders98en · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in 1719, when the Kryukov and Admiralty canals were dug for shipbuilders; its area is 7.8 ha.
        • The name comes from the warehouses of ship timber, which was dried the Dutch way — standing upright.
        • Vallin de la Mothe's arch over the canal to the inner basin was built in 1779–1787; it is 23 metres high.
        • The round naval prison building from the 1820s was nicknamed the “bottle” — it is said to be the origin of the Russian idiom for flying off the handle.
        • In the 1894 experimental basin, the shipbuilder Alexey Krylov carried out experiments on ship unsinkability.
        • During the First World War the most powerful radio station in Russia, belonging to the naval staff, worked here.
        • Until December 2004 the island was occupied by Baltic Fleet services, and it was closed to the public.
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        🍜 Restaurants and cafés in the “Bottle” (New Holland)
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2, лит. Т (Новая Голландия)
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        Eat at the Bottle: a café on the ground floor, with a stroller-accessible toilet nearby. Ask the island's administration in advance about a changing table.
        🍴 The ground floor of the round “Bottle” building on New Holland Island is filled with cafés and street food from different cuisines, with tables in the courtyard in summer. What to order: shawarma on a plate and hummus at Bekitzer, udon and fried bananas with ice cream at Hagao.
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        🚶 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        A wide boulevard with lawns and trees from Senate Square to Truda Square, with columns topped by Victories at the start.
        A wide boulevard with lawns — the stroller glides smoothly and the baby naps to the rustle of leaves.
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        Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • From the 1710s until 1842 the Admiralty Canal flowed where the boulevard is now.
        • The name comes from the riding hall and barracks of the Horse Guards regiment and has been known since 1842.
        • The columns with "Victories" at the start of the boulevard were a gift from the Prussian king Frederick William IV to Nicholas I; Rauch's originals stand in Berlin.
        • In 1918 the boulevard was renamed Professional Unions Boulevard, after the Palace of Labour.
        • From 1907 to 1997 a tram ran along the odd-numbered side of the boulevard.
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        🍽 Teplo restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Морская ул., 45
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        Teplo is 300 m from Konnogvardeysky Boulevard (Bolshaya Morskaya 45): a kids' room; there are a few steps at the entrance — staff will help carry the stroller in; on weekend afternoons it is nearly impossible to get in without a booking.
        🍴 A living-room restaurant in the House of Composers: several cosy rooms with a homey feel, home cooking and their own baking. What to order: chicken liver salad, draniki with salmon, a curd cheese bake, the “Aunt Tanya” sponge cake.
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        🌳 Alexander Garden
        A garden along the Admiralty with paths, busts of cultural figures and a big fountain in the middle.
        A fountain and shaded benches — a good spot for a feeding break.
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        Alexander Garden
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Alexander Garden
        © Bernd Fiedler · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden opened in 1874 and was named after Alexander II; it covers 9 hectares.
        • At the opening Alexander II planted a young oak himself opposite the portal of St Isaac's Cathedral — the oak still stands inside the fence.
        • In Soviet times it was the Workers' Garden (named after Gorky from 1936); the historic name was restored in 1997.
        • A bronze camel lies by the 1892 bust of Przhevalsky; because the explorer looked like Stalin, tourists asked: “Why is Stalin with a camel?”
        • The height of the central fountain's jet changes with the music, which is why it is called ‘dancing’.
        • The busts of Gogol and Lermontov by the fountain were put up in 1896, and Glinka's in 1899.
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        🏛 Palace Square
        The city's main square between the Winter Palace and the arc of the General Staff Building with the Triumphal Arch.
        The finale on Palace Square: space, pigeons and the Alexander Column. The cobbles are even but a bit bumpy.
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        Palace Square
        © Mikhey77777 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • From 1918 to 1944 the square was called Uritsky Square, after the head of the Petrograd Cheka, killed by the General Staff Building.
        • On 16 June 1766 Catherine II held a Carousel here — an equestrian festival-tournament with Rinaldi's wooden amphitheater seating several thousand.
        • The granite monolith of the Alexander Column is not fixed in any way and stays on its pedestal under its own weight alone.
        • In 1924 it was decided to replace the angel on the column with a figure of Lenin, but after a year of discussion the project was dropped.
        • The east side of the square is closed off by the Guards Corps headquarters, built by Alexander Bryullov in 1837–1843.
        • In 1932 the square's cobblestones were paved over with asphalt, and the diabase-cobble paving was restored only in 1977.
        • In autumn 1941 they seriously discussed making an airfield for fighters on the square by moving the column, but dropped the idea.

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