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Zelenogradsk City Park is located in the northeastern district of the city near the shore of the Baltic Sea. It was founded in 1856 by the Prussian King Frederick William IV, who allocated funds for the development of the Baltic resort of Kranz. By the 19th century, there were: a public hall and a rotunda for dancing, playgrounds, walking paths, two restaurants, gazebos among the trees. All this has made the park the center of the cultural life of the resort.

Previously, the park was called "Plantage". Now the City Park is no longer such a center of resort life, but tourists come here to relax. In the center of the park there is a Tortilla Pond, which used to be called Stork Pond, because there was a sculpture of a stork in the center. Nowadays, the pond is called "Tortilla", in honor of the tortoise Tortilla. The Bridge of Sighs, built in 1907, spans the narrow part of the pond.

On the south side of the Tortilla Pond in 1871, after the victory over the French troops at Sedan, three Imperial oaks were planted. After the victory over France, the German Empire was proclaimed, and William I became the first emperor. These oaks were named "Imperial" in his honor. Only one oak tree has survived to this day.

Zelenogradsk City Park stretches along the beach. It`s called the Frying Pan Beach. And from the northeast, the park borders with the forests of the Curonian Spit. Frying pan beaches are the dunes of the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea coast, which have many hollows protected from the wind. The sand in these places warms up so much that they began to be called "frying pans". In sunny weather, people can sunbathe in them from May to October, although the swimming season on the Baltic Sea is short.

There are no frying pan beaches in the City Park, but there are paths with wooden decking along the shore where people can walk. Many paths in the park have lanes for cyclists. Sports grounds have been created in various places of the park, which attracts sports fans to the park.