Waterfall in Kinského zahrada, Artificial waterfall in Kinského zahrada, Smíchov, Czech Republic.
The waterfall in Kinského zahrada consists of two artificial cascades fed by a man-made channel that supplies a pond. The upper waterfall drops from a step of small sandstone stones in a parabolic curve, fanning out before a stretch of small cascades. These end at a vertical step imitating a cracked rock wall, built of rectangular sandstone blocks with a small bridge; water falling over the bridge forms the lower waterfall, while only a small part flows cascading over protruding stone blocks.
The two ponds and their waterfalls were created in 1908 as part of the landscape park in the English style that was being gradually built in Kinský Garden on the southern slope of Petřín. The water features were fed by an artificial channel, which gives them enough water all year round.
The two waterfalls and their ponds were created in 1908 as part of the English-style landscape park being built in Kinský Garden. The upper waterfall drops from a step of small sandstone stones in a parabolic curve, fans out and runs over small cascades. These end at a vertical step of squared sandstone blocks with a small footbridge, over which most of the water falls to form the lower waterfall.
The two waterfalls and their ponds lie on the southern slope of Petřín hill inside Kinského zahrada. The upper fall drops from a small sandstone step and fans out over short cascades; the lower one plunges from a vertical wall of squared sandstone blocks with a small footbridge. The water comes from an artificial channel fed year-round, so the falls run even in dry spells.
The upper waterfall falls from a step of small sandstone stones along a parabolic curve, fanning out before a run of small cascades. These end at a vertical step built of squared sandstone blocks with a small footbridge; water dropping over the bridge forms the lower waterfall, while only a small part trickles down the protruding blocks.
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