Moscow parks : Tsaritsino (Царицыно)

One of the nicest park that we can find in Moscow is Tsaritsino. This park is situated at the south side of Moscow. I have been there already many times and enjoyed all of them. The Tsaritsino park is very well maintained, large enough to walk for several hours, and has a mixture of historical monuments together with nice natural spots. I strongly recommend to visit the park earlier than noon because in the afternoon, specially during the weekends and when the weather is sunny, there are tons of people coming to visit. In the summer, there is some refreshing fontains dancing under some soviet-style chill-out music.

There are tons of pictures on the internet of this park : you can find few on wikipedia (along with history) and in Mikhail Fursov's folder of pictures. I am sharing here a couple of pictures I made.

The first one is a general view of the park. This photo and the one below were made in end of october 08. There is a large lake in the park with a couple of neat islands which are full of ducks because no one can get on these islands to bother them!



This second picture shows nice contrasts between the blue sky and the "blue" water. It was taken from one of the corners of the park.



This third picture shows another view on the lake. The photo as well as the two following ones, were taken in the summer, in the period of July. As you can see, there is a lot of green...!



The following two pictures were made close to the Tsaritsino Museum. This is one of the bridge leading to the park.


This is a picture of a small artificial lake made to decorate the park.