Spectacular Great Falls fountain group Peter the Great Summer Palace musical fountain

Summer Palace, also known as Peter Palace, located in the Gulf of Finland, 29 km from the city of St. Petersburg, divided into "garden" and "garden", "Versailles of Russia," said. Under the garden a total of more than 200 fountains, more than 2000 water jets, of which the "chess mountain" and "Jinshan" two cascade waterfalls are the most famous, other fountain modeling is also colorful.

Summer Palace is the main landscape of up to 20 meters of the Great Falls group. There are 37 golden statues, 29 bas-reliefs, 150 figurines, 64 fountains and two trapezoidal waterfalls. In the middle of a large semi-circular pool of fountains, stands Samson and Lions wrestling statue, which is the famous Rumsong fountain. The statue is 3 meters high and weighs 5 tons. Samson both hands to the lion's upper and lower jaw distraction, spring water from the lion's mouth in the sky, the water column of 22 meters, is the palace's largest fountain of water, agitated springs from the lions mouth spewing out, springs along the summer palace garden to Finland Bay.

It is worth mentioning that the fountain does not use any power or external force, but the use of natural water pressure drop and pressure. In the summer palace on the garden, built a special reservoir, through the palace underground aqueduct connected with the fountain. Need to open the fountain, just open the leading, can be described as "low carbon."