On hot days, it’s time to visit one of the most beautiful alleys of the Summer Garden.

Berso is an arch of living plants intertwined with each other and a framework for their support. Arches of living plants were extremely popular among nobles who loved to stroll on a hot day in the shade of greenery, where there was a saving coolness.

For the first time, such covered alleys appeared in the gardens of Europe in the 17th century. In Russia, in the 18th century, this technique became popular and was called a “circular path”.
Berso is an eye-catching landscape structure that can become a real decoration of gardens and parks.

In the Summer Garden, the project to recreate the “circular path” was developed on the basis of historical plans and analogues of similar garden structures from the 17th-18th centuries. The alley is formed by a three-trunked small-leaved linden (lat. Tilia cordata Mill), which was specially formed in the nursery in the form of arches.