{"id":39674,"date":"2018-02-27T20:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/v-botanicheskom-sady-sankt-peterbyrga-zimnii-festival-sireni.html"},"modified":"2018-02-27T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:01:05","slug":"v-botanicheskom-sady-sankt-peterbyrga-zimnii-festival-sireni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/v-botanicheskom-sady-sankt-peterbyrga-zimnii-festival-sireni","title":{"rendered":"The St. Petersburg Botanical Garden is hosting a winter lilac festival."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/f88514c028dbe79e68d4d6b51d9ea77e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>These days, the world&#039;s only winter Lilac Festival is taking place in St. Petersburg. Visitors to the Botanical Garden can see blooming white, pink, and purple lilacs, as well as a multitude of tulips and azaleas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spring was artificially created for tubs of lilac bushes by moving them successively into warmer rooms, TASS reports. The &quot;Lilac February&quot; festival features lectures, family quests, and master classes on creating your own perfume from the Perfumers&#039; Guild. The Botanical Garden on Aptekarsky Island is also hosting an exhibition, &quot;Lilacs and Tulips in Watercolor,&quot; and a photo zone featuring blooming tulips. Tickets to the festival are 400 rubles for adults and 200 rubles for children aged 4 and older.<\/p>\n<p>The Peter the Great Botanical Garden is one of the oldest in Russia. The garden&#039;s greenhouses cover one hectare and stretch for about a kilometer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel.ru\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/260643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the world&#039;s only winter Lilac Festival is taking place in St. Petersburg - visitors to the Botanical Garden can see the blooming white,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}