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Radio Garden Lets You Tune Into A World Of Global Broadcasts

Deepak Singh

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Before my family bought a television set, it was radio that I stayed glued to. I must have been 10 years old, or maybe 9. My grandfather, uncle and I would sit close to a massive analogue radio. One of them delicately held the dial between the thumb and the index finger, fine-tuning, ear close to the speaker, listening carefully for a clear sentence of English amid the sizzle and the crackle of radio signals. A clear signal that lasted for barely a minute put a huge smile on our faces.

Back in the late 1970s, the rectangular machine was our window into the world, a world we had never been to.

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Each glowing dot represents a radio station.

Sometimes I listened to a cricket commentary for a game played in New Zealand, Or the news from BBC London. Every once in a while the radio caught a station that wasn't English, but I listened anyway. A foreign language from thousands of miles away — how exotic!

This week I stumbled upon a new website on the Internet called Radio Garden . Curious, I clicked on it and a globe started spinning before my eyes. It looked similar to Google Earth. Then I zoomed into the northeast part of the United States. And then a radio station started playing. On the bottom left side of the screen it said, Lewiston, United States. This is about 30 miles from Brunswick, Maine, where I now live. On the bottom right side, it said WRBC. The Bates College radio station was playing.

I planned to move the cursor halfway around the world to my homeland but first I dropped in on Tehran, Iran. My screen now said Radio Hamdam. I couldn't understand a word of the song, but the rhythm was upbeat, the kind of music you'd listen to while running on a treadmill. After two songs, I then wandered to Ghana. Highlife Radio Ghana, Kokrokoo FM 90.5 was on my screen. This seemed to be a talk show. Two guys were talking in a language unknown to me, but one of them was speaking in an animated voice, the other was laughing hysterically. They reminded me of Tom and Ray Magliozzi from Car Talk.

To find out more about Radio Garden, I contacted Jonathan Puckey, who is based in Netherlands and is one of the people behind this project.

"The main idea is to help radio makers and listeners connect with distant cultures and re-connect with people from home and thousands of miles away," he told me. So far, some 8,000 stations have signed on.

The website just launched this Monday, and it's got a few glitches. Not every station is located in the right place on the map. For example, if you point at a dot in Texas to listen to a Lone Star broadcast, you might get a station from Russia.

Puckey said he's already being inundated by calls from around the world: "Just yesterday, 300 stations requested to be added. It's going viral. We were not expecting it to be this big. There are 56,000 page views per minute. We have a meeting tomorrow to see how we are going to manage this."

He also told me that Radio Garden is funded with public money from the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision and that there is no commercial aspect to the project right now.

I thanked him, ended the call and moved the cursor to Lahore, Pakistan. I had never listened to a Pakistani radio station, although it's a country next door to my native India. I was hoping to find an Urdu language station — I can understand Urdu. Only "Somebody to Love" by Jordan Smith was playing. I wondered if this was one of the geographic glitches that Puckey was talking about. I stayed on the station for a few more minutes and heard a Pakistani host with a fake American accent. He threw in a sentence in Urdu later. It wasn't a mistake. It was a station in Lahore, Pakistan, that played songs by American singers. The next song was "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd.

I took the cursor to India and put it in New Delhi, India. A Hindi devotional song was playing. The bottom left of the screen said, 10.57 p.m., New Delhi. On the right: Bollywood Radio. I couldn't help but smile.

The whole experience of tuning into stations on Radio Garden was exactly like the analog radio I used to tune several decades ago. Even the crackle and interference of other stations sounded the same. The only difference was that I was using the track pad of my laptop — not the radio dial.

I thought about how Jonathan Puckey described Radio Garden's idea of connecting listeners with distant cultures and re-connecting people with their roots. I found it funny and true. Back in India, when I was little, I used radio to connect with faraway places. Now living in the U.S., I was using Radio Garden to go home again.

Deepak Singh is the author of How May I Help You?: An Immigrant's Journey From MBA to Mininum Wage.

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Perhaps my only favorite application on both laptop and mobile. I have Radio Garden bookmarked on my browser for late night radio listening for almost 2 yrs now. Sometime I get lost into looking at and listening to radio stations from some of the remotest places on the earth out of curiosity and then sometimes I am exploring whats playing in Jamaica, to China to Guam.. Its so fascinating to hear music so groovy, so diverse, no amazing that I think it beats any other platform for me. For someone from 90s this is an old school listening of radio stations from and actually listening to the music than just swiping on to so many options. Kudos to Radio Garden team. This is a pure love. :) Fascinatingly listening to Wizkid Ft. JB’s song playing on Shahghai’s KFM981 FM98.1 sitting in the hill town of Shimla in the Himalayas at 3 am. The world is coming together.

Brought back the culture of listening to Radio

Had there been no Radio Garden probably a large population of the world would have forgotten to listen to Radio. Thanks to Radio Garden that I can listen to some of the best international music from stations across the world. Considering that none of the radio stations in my city actually play great music, Radio Garden came as a rescue for me. Also most of my purchases on Apple Music are after I listened them on Radio Garden. Thank you to the inventors of Radio Garden. You have brought in a new era of Radio listening. For free.

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Imagine looking at Google Earth and seeing thousands of tiny green dots all over the map, with each one representing a playable radio station. That’s pretty much Radio Garden, a mobile and web app offering a fun way to enjoy live radio from around the world.

We first reported on Radio Garden soon after its launch in 2016. But since then, it’s had a number of design makeovers while constantly adding thousands of new local and national stations (and deleting defunct ones). In recent days, for reasons not entirely clear, Radio Garden has also been causing a buzz on social media, so we’ve decided to revisit it in case you haven’t had a chance to try it yet.

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The free service is available via Radio Garden’s iOS app ,  Android app , and website , though at the current time, it doesn’t play nice with the Brave browser.

To get started, simply spin the globe and zoom in on a place of interest. When you bring a dot inside the green circle at the center of the display, the feed for that station will automatically start playing. The name of the radio station will appear alongside suggestions for other stations in the same area, all of them playable.

You can also search by country, city, and station name, and if you find one you like, you can mark it as a favorite.

Some parts of the world, including China and parts of Africa, obviously have more stations than shown on the map, and Radio Garden says it’s working to expand its station offerings.

Radio Garden is the work of Amsterdam-based studios Puckey and Moniker and emerged from an exhibition project commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Starting out as a web-only offering, the team released iOS and Android apps for Radio Garden in 2018. In 2020, the service underwent a major redesign to improve its look and usability. The work appears to have paid off, too, as the apps currently enjoy almost maximum star ratings on each store.

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One of the more mysterious phenomena discovered in space is fast radio bursts, or FRBs, strange pulses of extremely bright energy a few milliseconds long which sometimes repeat in distinct patterns. No one is sure exactly what causes these bursts, though astronomers think they may be related to the rapid rotation of neutron stars, and some fringe thinkers have suggested they are evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. And now, an FRB has been discovered in our own galaxy for the first time.

A cooperative effort of astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), McGill University, and more identified FRBs within the Milky Way and were even able to pinpoint their source. Previous bursts had been so far away it was impossible to identify their origin, but the new study was able to identify the source of the bursts, which can be blasts of more than 100 million times the power of the sun.

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"radio garden" lets you explore the world's radio stations.

It's like Google Maps, but with more pop songs.

While radio isn't particularly hard to access --- after all, you just need a device capable of tuning into radio frequencies --- listening to radio outside of your area can be difficult. This app, however, lets you listen to any radio station in any country around the world, complete with a fun interface.

Radio Garden is available as a web version, and it also has mobile apps for Android and iOS. Its whole premise is that you can listen to a number of radio stations in many different countries and cities --- you'll see a bunch of small green dots all across the globe, and those are radio stations that you can tune into immediately. You don't even need a login or any kind of subscription. All you need is a device that can access the internet, like a computer or smartphone.

I played around with the Android version for a bit, and I managed to tune into stations from all across the United States, as well as to a few stations in South American and European countries. As a true test of its global capabilities, I even tuned into a station located in the isolated city of Pyongyang, North Korea, and I was successful.

It's definitely something you should give a shot, even if it's to have fun for a bit.

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When I spent a few days in Ubud, Bali’s cultural-tourism capital, gamelan music was rarely out of earshot. The intricate percussive music — the principal thing that drew me to the island — clanged from shops, restaurants and abundant open-air performance spaces. I expected to experience that ubiquity again when I returned recently, some 20 years later. Instead, as I glided over the Indonesian archipelago, I heard thumping EDM, treacly pop and whole foundries of shrieking heavy metal.

Of course, I didn’t travel to Bali in person this time. The island and the rest of Indonesia are closed to international travelers because of covid-19, according to the latest State Department advisory. Neither could I have physically floated above the South Pacific. It was my cursor that did the hovering as it navigated Radio.garden , a website that portrays more than 33,000 streaming radio stations as individual green dots on a spinnable virtual globe that charts oceans, deserts and mountains but not national borders.

Radio Garden is a banquet for anyone who enjoys maps, international music and travel, and self-guided cultural studies. It began in 2016 as a temporary project of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, devised by interactive design firms Studio Puckey and Moniker. The site was such a sensation that co-designer Jonathan Puckey decided to keep it in operation after its initial run. The website, also available as an app , became an independent company in 2019 — just in time for the pandemic, which boosted usage by as much as 750 percent in some periods.

“Since launching it my view has always been to not mess up the magic that makes people fall in love with the platform, while improving everything else,” Puckey said by email. “I try not to think too much about the millions of people using the platform every week, but my heart does skip a beat whenever I look at our live map and see people across the world using it.”

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To the Amsterdam-based Dutch British designer, the site’s essence is “this exciting tension between people and their geographical location. In some ways we are formed by our surroundings, and in other ways we shape them. Culture flows through the world and shifts in language, accent and tone at every bend.”

Decades before the Internet, Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan distinguished TV, a “cool medium,” from radio. The latter “affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener,” McLuhan wrote in 1964. “It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumor and personal malice.”

Radio Garden’s version of McLuhan’s “global village” is more benign — and far more extensive — than the thinker could have imagined. Yet Puckey tries to make the experience as rooted as possible. “We do our best to verify the location of the streaming stations and turn away stations that do not list their location on their website,” he noted.

Each green dot represents a streaming service, only some of which mirror a radio station’s terrestrial broadcast signal. Several regions are populated by many more stations that could possibly be accommodated on the AM and FM spectra. Green dots are especially thick on the ground in Western Europe, where Paris’s 472 stations make the French capital No. 1 with a bullet on Radio Garden’s hit parade. Much thinner are China, Iran, the Arab world and much of Africa, due to both political and technical considerations.

“While we were blocked in China on a domain level and in the major app stores for unknown reasons, we have been receiving submissions for stations in China again recently,” Puckey wrote. (Most of the currently available ones are in the Hong Kong/Macao/Guangzhou region.) “In certain countries bandwidth costs are very high, which might make it unsustainable to stream online.”

Radio Garden isn’t the only Web platform that streams radio from around the world. Other sites — streema.com and mytuner-radio.com are just two of them — often offer more information about stations and programming than Radio Garden does. Puckey plans to add more such data and to translate his site into such languages as Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French and possibly others. But Radio Garden has a significant advantage over other worldwide streaming-radio sites, he suggested.

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“While these services work well if you already know what you want to listen to, they do not offer much in the form of magic or heart when it comes to discovering new things,” he wrote. “There is a magical space in between getting lost and finding your way that we try to tap into with Radio Garden.”

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Hours spent circling Radio Garden yield many insights — all of which are debatable, since no listener can sample enough stations at enough times to really comprehend what’s streaming worldwide. English-language pop seems to be the most common content, followed by local-lingo versions of such music. U.S. radio formats are widely emulated, with American-style promo announcements — in English — employed by stations from Gold FM 93.2 (Colombo, Sri Lanka) to Love FM 97.5 (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) to Radio Mega Mix (Kameyama, Japan).

From Jerusalem; to Cape Town, South Africa; to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, the performers I encountered most often were the Beatles and Beach Boys, although oldies stations generally trend toward the 1980s and ’90s. (Berlin’s uber-specialized 80s80s service has channels devoted to multiple genres from that decade, as well as three that play nothing but Prince, David Bowie or Michael Jackson, respectively.) Once, while swooping from continent to continent, I chanced upon Diana Ross’s “Upside Down” twice in under 10 minutes. And I heard John Lennon’s “Imagine” on a Basque- language station that, presumably, would rather dump its equipment into the Bay of Biscay than air a word of Spanish or French.

Another popular English-language export is Christian soft-rock from, or in the mode of, Australia’s Hillsong megachurch. The many religious stations generally track the dominant local faith, but Christian stations do missionary work from Macao to Chennai, India (which has at least four), to Lusaka, Zambia.

For Radio Garden users, the possibilities are effectively infinite. Listeners can surf nonstop or settle in one spot. They can seek patter in a language they know or groove to the cadences of one they don’t. They can partake in such near-universal hymns as “Hey Jude” and “Good Vibrations,” or seek something more regionally specific. They can explore places they’ve never been or revisit ones they know.

I audio-hopped to several music capitals I’ve never toured in real life, including Dakar, Senegal, and Dunedin, New Zealand. But I found myself drawn to places I know, at least a little, and to music that would never air on a globalized oldies station.

I found both familiar turf and unconventional music on such stations as Carmarthen’s Cymru FM, which plays nothing but Welsh-language rock, folk and pop. (“Cymru” is Welsh for Wales.) Also on Osaka, Japan’s Gyusyabu Retro AC Game Radio, which programs only bleepy tunes from ancient electronic games, and Tokyo’s Listen.moe, which specializes in songs from anime. (“Moe” is Japanese slang from the affection fans feel toward fictional characters, usually big-eyed girls.)

Then, as my cursor slipped northeast from Ubud, I discovered Radio Seribatu, which operates four channels. Komodo streams Asian-only rock, punk and metal; Volcano entirely Balinese punk, indie and alternative rock; and Mesin exclusively Balinese house, techno, trance and electro. The other outlet is Seribatu Village Radio, an FM station that plays traditional Balinese music.

The metallic tones and interlocking five-note patterns were transporting. In them I heard rice paddies, monkey forests, sultry air, shadow puppets and tiny lizards perched on the ceiling. I was sitting at the same computer where I’ve been for all too much of the last year. I was also somewhere else.

Jenkins is a writer based in D.C. Find him on Twitter: @MarkJenkinsDC .

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A digital tool that allows us to surf the world’s radio stations is perfect for lockdown liberation

I n The Aleph, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the narrator encounters “a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness” in a Buenos Aires cellar. Through it, all the places in the world “can be seen from every angle, each standing clear, without any confusion or blending”. This extraordinary instrument (the aleph of the title) is being used by the owner of the house to write a poem which will meticulously describe everywhere that exists. Rather surprisingly, this epic enterprise wins him only second place in the Argentine national prize for literature.

The poet’s modern heirs are based in Amsterdam, where a group of tech developers have created a 21st-century version of the aleph. Radio Garden, a free app which carries over 30,000 radio stations from around the world, offers aural transport to the rest of the globe. Specifically adapted for mobile phone screens, the app allows the user to scroll across a digital map of the world. One can pause, for example, in Tralee in south-west Ireland to listen to Radio Kerry , before crossing the Atlantic to see what Radio Blanc-Sablon on the east coast of Canada has to offer. (The answer, at 8.26am local time today, perhaps disappointingly, was So Far Away by Dire Straits.) Meanwhile in the town of Bertoua, in eastern Cameroon, a preacher is glossing St Paul’s letter to the Colossians, while the Arctic Outpost station on Svalbard is helping listeners through the dark winter afternoon with a jaunty 1920s number from the Merry Macs .

Radio Garden was created five years ago, but there has been an exponential increase in the number of users during the current Covid confinement. For some, unable to travel to visit relatives back home, the app must provide an invaluable source of consolation. The Cameroonian minister would doubtless spy a remarkable opportunity to reach a wider audience. Similarly, those who believe a single global language, such as Esperanto , can advance peace and understanding between nations might be inspired by the possibilities it throws up in a new age of digital translation .

The app’s founders hope users will channel the spirit of the French situationists , who cherished the idea of le dérive – a kind of unplanned journey in which the aim was to get hopelessly, gloriously, lost. This seems like the right approach to a device tailor-made for the global flâneur . The radio is a peculiarly intimate medium. Freed from extraneous sensory clutter, the broadcaster’s voice establishes a direct and personal connection, even as it reaches into millions of kitchens and bedrooms every day. Experiencing this across the great, unfathomable diversity of the world’s places and situations is mesmeric; it would be a mistake to rush to extract general, abstract lessons from such encounters.

The miraculous quality of Radio Garden, which richly deserves its growing cult status, lies in its agenda-free offer of somewhere else; its ability to spirit a listener from a lockdown afternoon in Manchester to the sounds, mood and preoccupations of a sunny morning in Monterrey. Borges began his short story with a quote from Hamlet: “Oh God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of infinite space.” Armed with this lockdown liberation tool, that can go for the rest of us too.

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Apple Music now has its three 24-hour continuous radio stations , but radio has existed for a lot longer than Apple — and thousands of stations are still broadcasting constantly. While you've long been able to search the web for a station's homepage and, usually, listen live from there, now there's an app that is particularly built for the global radio explorer.

Radio Garden and its iOS app Radio Garden Live , presents a Google Earth-like globe of the world. As you spin around it, myriad green dots appear. Each dot represents one place — a city or a town — where there is at least one radio station.

Tap on any of them and you are listening to that station. It sometimes takes a moment for them start as the connection is buffered, and Radio Garden quite subtly plays the sound effect of old-time tuning in.

But it's never more than a moment's delay before you can hear the station relayed live. If you like the station, you can mark it as a favorite — and you really should. In AppleInsider testing on iPhones, it was preposterously easy to find a station but then accidentally graze the screen and send it spinning around the globe again.

Fortunately, there is a search feature — if you know the name of the station. Enter the station name, or the region where it's broadcasting from, and Radio Garden will first show a list of the most popular stations there.

You can swipe around the globe to find stations, to search directly

You can then tap to see the complete list of location stations available in that area. And whichever way you find a station, you can then share it with others, or tap to see where it is located on the globe.

As well as the iPhone , there is an iPad version of the app. You can also use a Mac to listen via the official Radio Garden site , though that's a little more inconsistent.

Some AppleInsider staff listen to it over Safari on Mac, but others find they need to switch to Firefox for it to work reliably.

There is a version of the app called Radio Garden Live in the Mac App Store. However, it's an iOS app running on Macs and so requires Apple Silicon that's M1 .

Radio Garden is a free, ad-supported app on the iOS App Store. There is an in-app purchase for $2.99 to remove advertising.

The internet is responsible for many radio stations closing down, particularly ones that relied on shortwave. But if we've lost the old fun of trying to tune in to a distant signal late at night when atmospheric conditions were just right, we can now hear the world clearly.

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If you’re working from home and looking to travel to a faraway place without leaving the comfort of your chair (perhaps you’re even reading our blog on visiting landmarks virtually ) add a soundtrack to your home life with Radio Garden .

Radio Garden allows you to tune into over 8000 radio stations across the world. Essentially Google Earth for Radio. Click and drag a 3D globe around and zoom in on local stations and listen!

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Created by Golo Föllmer, he says Radio Garden allows listeners to explore processes of broadcasting and hearing identities across the entire globe. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away – or using local community radio to make and enrich new homes.

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Radio Garden: tune into local and remote radio stations in your browser

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Radio Garden is a free online service that provides radio stations that users may listen to from any browser they use. The service is free to use and does not require an account.

Apps for Google Android and Apple iOS devices are also available.

Radio Garden's website has a minimalistic design. The service displays a local radio station on start automatically using an extensive database of available options. It zooms in on the user's location on a map and visualizes all available radio stations in the vicinity and farther away.

The selection depends on the user's location, which means that mileage may vary depending on availability. Some regions, e.g., China, are blank entirely, while others have lots of options to choose from.

A click on the play button starts playback immediately. The browser window can be minimized and you may switch to another tab without interfering with playback.

There is also an explore option. Activation of the button displays local stations, stations from the area, nearby cities and stations from farther away that may be selected with just a click.

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Map navigation is possible as well. A click on a region or station on the map selects it and starts playback right away. There are zoom buttons to zoom in or out.

There is also a search, to find stations quickly. Search supports finding stations by their name, country or city. The search interface displays popular stations by default and replaces that default listing with the results once a search is made.

Radio Garden has a couple of extra features besides those already mentioned. You may add a station to the favorites for quick access, lock the radio station that is active, or use the location finder to get an exact reading of the device's location.

The service supports thousands of radio stations from all over the world. Missing stations may be suggested in the Settings.

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Radio Garden is an easy to use website to tune into local, nearby or remote radio stations. It is free to use, has no advertisement, and does not require an account.

Some may prefer a dedicated app like Tray Radio , PCRadio or  VRadio , or to tune in using an audio player that supports online radio station streams.

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I’ve been using a radio gadget for a while now, which is called Mini radio and was created by a guy in Holland. Very good compared to other built-in Internet radios, you can also put your own stations, which are updated automatically. I will also try the radio garden, but it needs a strong web engine.

The fact Radio Garden requires WebGL, insecure connections (http:/) not only for it’s main site but also for several other sites that are required for it to work (showing up in NoScript), plus googlesyndication, all adds up to a hard “No” for me.

I’ve been occassionally using the standalone portable Pocket Radio Player but will look at some of the others mentioned above.

Blocked by the Great British Firewall, well the stations outside the UK anyway

You must access the site via “http”, not “https” … otherwise I see no explanation. Worldwide here on Firefox 108.

I just saw Brian Krebs post about this on Mastodon last week. Okay, that sentence made me sound like a real dweeb. But I do enjoy this site.

Zero luck here finding anything that would play–pure background static coming from Denver, CO? Impossible? I would think.

Back to archives:

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/03/listen-to-online-radio-stations-with-vradio-a-portable-application-for-windows/

Portable Screamer Radio picks offers more stations than I dare peruse. Lots of tunes coming out of Germany.

How about [http://radio.garden/visit/denver-co/GTrLRuGq] ?

[Radio.garden] then ‘Search’ :=)

Nope–not picking up anything. Something’s not right. Me or my connection or something. Get loads of stations with an actual program. Give me time; I’ll figure it out, or it will figure me out.

I prefer to use my own ol’tyme player & rss-audio-feeds, because they’re quieter and only use one connection/IP

To bad that it’s not a secure site. And another bother is that every single site needs his one right. When I look at NoScript it’s unbelievable how many rights I have to give before I can hear a snippet.

Radio Garden is an innovative way to discover and play worldwide radios.

– Even if launched with ‘https’ the app’s url it resolves to ‘http’ — given many of the radios it accesses are ‘http’ only. – Requires WebGL (Firefox : pref(“webgl.disabled”, false); // DEFAULT=false — given the wonderful globe/map

I must say that the experience is uncommon, as if traveling in space and listening to countries’ radios with a simple geostationary ‘pause’ so to say. Really nice. Great you point it out, @Martin :=)

Radio Droid 2 is what I use for worldwide radio streams.

Really nice the navigation map, but to be honest I still prefer: – StreamWriter (PC) – RadioDroid (smartphone) – mytuner-radio.com (browser –> https://mytuner-radio.com/search/?q= {searchTerms})

Here a script is needed to set it among radio stations search engines and I suck at understanding how to do it. I didn’t know about TrayRadio, thanks.

> Here a script is needed to set it among radio stations search engines and I suck at understanding how to do it.

Do you mean to add [https://mytuner-radio.com/search/?q={searchTerms}] to Firefox’s search engines? I don’t know if a userScript can perform that. Dedicated extensions do it easily. I use the following :

Add custom search engine : [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/]

myTuner Radio seems built for smartphones or is it that ‘uBlock Origin’, even with max permissions, breaks the layout? Unless it be my system-wide blocklists that interfere on 3rd-party connections, mainly to Google servers which is heavily called by myTuner?

Several Radio portals exist as you must know, a few others which all play internally (no new tab to the chosen radio) :

1.FM (not a portal, only its own channels) : [https://www.1.fm/stations] FMstream : [http://fmstream.org/] — Requires ‘http’, runs with ‘https’ but links to ‘http’ radios won’t access. Internet Radio : [https://www.internet-radio.com/] OnlineRadioBox : [https://onlineradiobox.com/] Shoutcast Radio : [https://directory.shoutcast.com/] vTuner Radio : [https://vtuner.com/setupapp/guide/asp/BrowseStations/startpage.asp]

There’s also the ‘Radio player’ Firefox extension [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/radio_player_/] which provides an editable list of radio stations: toolbar button and drop-down menu. The easy way to add radio stations’ urls is to refer to above mentioned ‘FMstream’ : [http://fmstream.org/] which includes many stations and provides their urls, i.e. [http://server4.streamserver24.com:26331/stream] for the Chromanova radio. I use this extension extensively, allows to hear radio without opening a tab :=)

Hope that helps .

>Do you mean to add [https://mytuner-radio.com/search/?q={searchTerms}] to Firefox’s search engines?

No, I mean if I have to add Radio Garden. MyTuner is already added inside ContextSearchWeb-Ext, but of course you can use AddCustomSearchEngine if you want put it on Firefox’s search bar. In most searches within sites you can get away with SearchTerms (GET or POST parameters), in other cases you have to use dedicated scripts to enter the term and start the search. It seems to me that this is the case with Radio Garden.

>myTuner Radio seems built for smartphones or is it that ‘uBlock Origin’, even with max permissions, breaks the layout?

Could it be, I use uBlock set on medium mode and in this case I have to enable (for the radio streaming): – kxcdn.com – mytuner.mobi

>Several Radio portals exist as you must know

To be honest I am not pretty informed about radio sites, but I have 1.FM, Accuradio, FM Radio Free, Internet-Radio, Online Radio Box, Radio.net, TuneIn together with some other legal music streaming sites. At the end I usually only use StreamWriter on the PC or…. Old guard :-)

@Shiva, I see. Adding a search template via a smart keyword in fact. I do that quite substantially myself.

I’ve had a look, but I don’t think [radio.garden] enables the search feature via a dedicated url parameter.

The site itself has a search bar (Search for Country, City, Station] and once clicked displays [http://radio.garden/search] in the urlbar, and the chosen user’s quest appears as [http://radio.garden/listen/[USER_QUEST]/[PARAMETER_CREATED_BY_RADIO.GARDEN]]

No way to land directly into search results such as, i.e. [http://radio.garden/listen/chromanova/] [http://radio.garden/listen/chromanova/]

Search query results are displayed in the site’s dedicated left toolbar and the user’s choice within the results always leads to a url of the form [http://radio.garden/listen/[USER_QUEST]/[PARAMETER_CREATED_BY_RADIO.GARDEN]]

[PARAMETER_CREATED_BY_RADIO.GARDEN] is created by the site. No workaround as far as I understand it.

> No workaround as far as I understand it.

I don’t know all the extensions of Firefox related to search engines, but ContextSearchWeb-Ext support the use of scripts. In the case of Radio Garden you only need to have the word to be searched inserted into the search input field.

[https://github.com/ssborbis/ContextSearch-web-ext#javascriptengines] [https://postimg.cc/PN6jHmNj]

@Shiva, I see (further than previously) : “Some websites use search bars that do not offer a GET or POST query, instead relying on web forms and javascript.”.

Well, javascript able to resolve search on such sites is news for me.

What I do in such situations is to search the site via a search engine, i.e. [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chromanova+site%3Aradio.garden&ia=web]

Which is fine but not always and certainly not with [radio.garden], not to mention that the results appear on the search engine’s page…

I’m afraid I can(t help in this case : your working scheme is more elaborated than my knowledge :=)

Thanks for the links. I’ll investigate that.

EDIT, sorry :

No way to land directly into search results such as, i.e. [http://radio.garden/search/chromanova/] [http://radio.garden/listen/chromanova/]

@Martin Brinkmann,

Thanks for this tip, didn’t know this site. Works great and a white range off music is available.

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The best things to do and places to visit in Moscow, Russia

Updated On 14th October, 2021

While Moscow isn’t always at the top of everyone’s Europe bucket list , it’s certainly one of the best places to visit in Europe if you’re looking for a more alternative adventure! In this blog post I plan on sharing some of the free things to do in Moscow, as well as the best places to visit in Moscow, so that you can enjoy some of the best things to do in Russia! 

Moscow, the capital of Russia, sits in the European part of the country. It’s an incredibly beautiful city, which I personally found to be more beautiful than Saint Petersburg (which is often people’s preference). The capital is certainly a lot busier, and less laid back than Saint Petersburg , but it’s a much more colourful and vibrant city, full of stunning and unique architecture.

Visiting famous landmarks such as The Kremlin and St Basil’s Cathedral, enjoying some of the green space in Gorky Park, watching a ballet in the Bolshoi Theatre… these are just a few reasons that you should visit Moscow! On top of that, because of visa restrictions (we’ll get onto that later), it’s also one of the most unique destinations in Europe. 

There is a common misconception that Moscow is a dangerous city, but now that I’ve visited, I don’t believe this to be true. I would say the same rules apply here as to other large cities: avoid walking in dark areas alone at night, keep an eye on your belongings on public transport, and be streetwise. There’s no reason to avoid visiting this energetic city and miss out on these amazing things to do in Moscow! 

It would take months if you wanted to truly explore Moscow because it’s a huge city, but I’m going to share some of my favourite things to do in Moscow and places to visit in Moscow so that you can prepare for your upcoming adventure! Even if you’re only there for a few days, you should be able to fit in these highlights from my trip. 

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Where is Moscow?

If you’re wondering ‘Where is Moscow, Russia?’ then you’ve come to the right place! Moscow in in west Russia, the European part, and it’s the capital city. 

How do you get to Moscow?

Getting a visa for moscow:.

To get into Russia, you need to get a visa. The processing time is approximately 20 days, and you’ll need to have your fingerprints taken at a visa centre in London , Edinburgh or Manchester. You can find out more about getting a visa for Russia here.  

Getting to Moscow:

Once you’ve got your visa, the easiest way to get to Moscow from the UK is by flying. Direct flights between London and Moscow take just under four hours, and with an airport layover you’re looking at a 6-7 hour trip. You can also fly in from many other major European and international cities. 

Top tip: Check out flights to and from Copenhagen on  Skyscanner here.

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16 best places to visit in Moscow...

1. st basil’s cathedral.

The most iconic building in Russia and one of the most iconic buildings in the world. St Basil’s Cathedral is one of the best places to visit in Moscow, if not the best! 

St Basil’s is situated on Red Square, where you’ll also find many other popular places to visit in Moscow. In my opinion this still stands out against them all. There’s something about the multi coloured domes against the Moscow skyline that I found quite spectacular. 

Although I’d already been in Russia for several days, it wasn’t until I was at this amazing piece of architecture that I really felt I was in Russia.

The cathedral was built by order of Ivan the Terrible, and apparently after the architect completed it, Ivan blinded him so that he could never build anything more beautiful. Whether or not this story is true, it certainly adds a bittersweet feeling as you stand admiring the beauty of St Basil’s Cathedral.

Inside is a museum displaying many historic items once used at the cathedral, which costs 700 rubles to enter. In my opinion it’s worth the entry fee, as simply seeing the ornate interior walls is a spectacle in itself.

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2. The Kremlin

This historic fortress that sits on Red Square is probably the largest landmark and one of the most popular places to visit in Moscow. It’s the official residence of the President, although he doesn’t actually live there. It’s been rebuilt many times since it was first constructed in 1147 out of wood, before Ivan III the Great ordered it to be made from stone, which is the Kremlin you’ll recognise today. 

The best things to do in Moscow: my favourite places to visit in Moscow

This place is huge, and there’s quite a lot to see. The first problem I had was finding where the entrance was. Even though I had a pre-booked ticket, I was then told I still had to visit the ticket office to exchange it for another ticket. I also needed my passport, so make sure you have yours if you plan to visit the Kremlin. After a lengthy queue I finally had a ticket I could use to enter the Kremlin, and had to go through security. The security here is thorough, so make sure you don’t take too much in with you. I had my pockets full, and it was a nightmare emptying them and explaining each item, before I was finally allowed in. Once inside you can pay for extra tickets to visit the various museums, however there’s also quite a lot to see simply on the grounds if you don’t want to spend too much. 

See more tips for travelling on a budget here. 

There’s so much to see here, including The Assumption Cathedral, Ivan the Great Bell Tower Complex, the Grand Kremlin Palace, the Armoury Chamber and Diamond Fund. There is also the Tsar Cannon (a huge artillery cannon), and the Tsar Bell. The Tsar Bell is the largest bell in the world. An incident with a fire and water being poured over the bell caused it to crack and for a slab to break off from it, which can now be seen propped up next to it.

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As you walk around the grounds you’ll hear the sound of whistles. The guards patrolling the area will blow a whistle at anyone walking where they shouldn’t. Even if it’s just on the grass, or towards more restricted areas. This can sometimes be funny to watch, as often the tourists will be in a world of their own whilst a guard is blowing a whistle at them. Sometimes a guard will be stood face to face with a tourist angrily blowing their whistle before the tourist realises they need to get back onto the main path.

This is perhaps one of the more unusual places to visit in Moscow! Gum is a huge department store situated on Red Square. It’s an interesting department store to walk around, with several levels, although the shops inside are certainly quite pricey. It’s a beautiful building when it’s lit up at night, and it seems to fit in nicely amongst the other famous sights on Red Square. Even if you don’t plan to buy anything here, one of the best things to do in Moscow is to take a quick look inside, although bear in mind there are usually security checks before entering.

4. State Historical Museum

The large crimson building on Red Square is now the State Historical Museum. It was originally the first pharmacy in Russia, and later a University before finally becoming the museum it is today.

Unfortunately I didn’t go inside as my time was limited and there was so much else I wanted to see, but if you have the time I think it would be one of the best things to do in Moscow. There are items dating back to the 6th century, and maybe even further. There’s also a library inside storing many ancient manuscripts and the largest coin collection in Russia. 

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5. Bolshoi Theatre

Bolshoi means big in Russian, so it roughly translates to large theatre. The Bolshoi Theatre is one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. The exterior of the building is an impressive sight, one of the most beautiful places to visit in Moscow, and it’s certainly worth admiring from the outside. There are guided tours of the interior, but if you really want to experience the theatre, one of the best things to do in Moscow is to watch a ballet here.

I was torn between booking a seat, but the ballets were very expensive. I’d have liked to have seen “Swan Lake”, (as at least I may have recognised some of the music). Unfortunately there were no performances on the days I was in Moscow, so I decided to pass. But if I return to Russia, then watching a ballet will be on my list of things to do.

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6. Sparrow Hills

If you want a good view of the city, then Sparrow Hills is one of the best places to visit in Moscow. It’s a bit of a trek outside of the centre, but if you have the time then it offers an escape from the hustle and bustle of the busy city. There’s a viewing platform here which gives you fantastic panoramic views of Moscow.

Nearby you’ll see the magnificent Moscow State University building, which is one of the seven sisters of Moscow.

7. Seven Sisters

Whilst in Moscow, you’ll no doubt notice these magnificent soviet skyscrapers dotted around the city. At the time of construction they were the tallest buildings in Europe, Moscow State University being so until 1997. There are, as the name suggests, seven in total, which are: Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building.

If you visit Sparrow Hills, then you’ll come across Moscow State University, but I’m certain as you explore the city, you’ll see more of these giants against the Moscow skyline. One of the best things to do in Moscow is to see if you can locate all seven as you wander round the city! 

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8. Nikolskaya Street

The start of this street is found by Red Square. It’s one of the most prominent pedestrianised streets in Moscow, filled with shops, restaurants and bars, so one of the best places to visit in Moscow if you’re looking for a bite to eat or some souvenirs!

What makes this street extra special are the thousands of bright lights in the sky above. After dark it looks simply magical with the many colourful lights overhead as you walk beneath them. One of the best things to do in Moscow is to visit Nikolskaya Street after dark and see them for yourself. It almost feels like Christmas in London!

There is another street nearby which also features similar lights, “Kuznetskiy Most”, which is also quite beautiful, but I thought “Nikolskaya Street” was ever slightly more impressive.

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9. Izmailovo Kremlin and Izmaylovskiy Bazar

Did you know that The Kremlin in Red Square is not the only Kremlin in Moscow? Kremlin actually means a type of fortress, so there are many in Russia.

The Izmailovo Kremlin is a fairly new addition to the city, having been built in 2007 as a cultural centre. With its multitude of colours and historic style, it has a real fairytale feel to it. There are several small museums here for you to explore, devoted to subjects such as Russian folk art, vodka and bread (yes, bread). Visiting these is definitely one of the more unique things to do in Moscow! 

It’s a little way out of the centre, but it’s an interesting place to visit in Moscow to see something a little bit different, and it won’t be as overcrowded with tourists. 

Next to the Izmailovo Kremlin is the best market in Moscow for souvenirs. You’ll find good and poor quality items, but you’ll certainly pick up a bargain if you take your time and haggle for a good price. Many of the items here you’ll get for half the price you would in souvenir shops in the city centre. It’s here that I picked up several Matryoshka dolls for a very good price. I think I’d have paid more than double, or possibly even triple if I’d have bought them elsewhere.

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10. Izmailovsky Park

Not too far from Izmailovo Kremlin you’ll find this huge park, one of the prettiest places to visit in Moscow. It’s easy to get lost here, so try to make sure you keep track of where you entered if you plan to go back the same way. There’s a lot to see in this park, a round pond, ferris wheel, playgrounds and sports grounds, shooting galleries, cinemas and a skate park.

There are often festivals, concerts and exhibitions at the park, on top of firework displays and dance parties.

The main reason I chose to visit the park was to find the painted trees. A local artist “Yevgenia Khlynina” has been painting on trees in this park, and one of the best things to do in Moscow is to explore the park looking for them. One of the most famous pieces of hers is the “Hedgehog in the Fog” from a famous soviet cartoon.

The best things to do in Moscow: my favourite places to visit in Moscow

11. Gorky Park

The most famous park in Moscow is named after the writer “Maxim Gorky”. Although it’s likely you’ve heard it mentioned in the song “Wind of Change” by “The Scorpions”. 

There’s lots to do and see in the park with sports facilities and exhibitions. During the summer months this is one of the best places to visit if you’re looking for things to do in Moscow; there are often open air concerts and an open air cinema. There are many statues and sculptures in the park, including a small sculpture park area which features many interesting pieces.

One piece of advice: don’t visit Gorky Park or any other parks on 2nd August if you’re in Russia. 2nd August is Paratrooper day, which usually encourages a lot of drinking in the park, which is not always very welcoming.

The best things to do in Moscow: my favourite places to visit in Moscow

12. Arbat Street

One of the oldest and busiest streets in Moscow, and the most famous pedestrian street in the city. Arbat is one of the most popular places to visit in Moscow. There are several shops including many dedicated to souvenirs, but although these will have a good range of goods, they will be quite expensive . You may see street performers and buskers, and there are often poets reciting famous works, if not their own works.

It’s within walking distance from the Kremlin, which should only take around 10 minutes.

There are actually two streets with this name, Old Arbat Street and New Arbat Street. Old Arbat Street is where you’ll find the pedestrianised area. New Arbat Street is a separate street which runs alongside a main road, filled with many bars and restaurants.

The best things to do in Moscow: my favourite places to visit in Moscow

13. Metro station art

The best way to get around Moscow is by using the metro, and the metro is a tourist attraction in itself.

Although I obviously didn’t visit every metro station, I believe that every single station is unique in its own beautiful way. Many of the stations I passed through were impressive, quirky or simply jaw dropping. You’ll more than likely pass through many of them on the way to other sights, but I’d recommend the following:  Komsomolskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Mayakovskaya, Teatralnaya, Arbatskaya, Prospekt Mira and Ploschad Revolutsii (be sure to pet the dog statue for good luck).

There are of course many others for you to explore, but these are the ones I considered to be some of the most impressive places to visit in Moscow (even if they’re only metro stations!).

The best things to do in Moscow: my favourite places to visit in Moscow

VDNKh is an exhibition centre with many monuments and museums. Now that it’s combined with the Botanical Garden and Ostankino Park, one of the best things to do in Moscow is to spend the day at this recreational centre enjoying a mix of nature and culture. The most popular museum in the complex which you shouldn’t miss on your trip to Moscow is the Museum of Cosmonautics.

15. Lenin's Mausoleum

Despite requesting to be buried with his mum in St Petersburg, it is at the foot of the Kremlin on Red Sqaure that you will find Lenin’s Mausoleum, where Vladimir Ilych Lenin has been frozen in time since 1924. It’s only open for a few hours a few times per week. Photography is not allowed, and you should line up on the western corner of the square (near Alexander Garden) to wait you turn to see the embalmed body. 

16. Novodevichy Convent

Novodevichy Convent, on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is one of the most beautiful places to visit in Moscow. Located south west of the centre you’ll find this stunning monastery. Inside you’ll find a cathedral and several churches, surrounded by high walls and 12 towers.

Where are your favourite places to visit in Moscow?

What about the best things to do in Moscow? Anything you’d add?

Love as always and happy adventuring…

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1 Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure

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2 Kolomenskoye

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3 Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve

4 all-russian exhibition center, 5 sokolniki park.

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6 Zaryadye Park

7 moscow zoo, 8 izmailovsky park, 9 muzeon park of arts, 10 neskuchny garden, 11 bauman garden, 12 park krasnaya presnya, 13 vorobyovy gory, 14 family park skazka., 15 nebo trampoline park.

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16 Happylon

17 the rink, 18 vorob'yevy gory, 19 moscow-850, park attraktsionov i razvlecheniy, 20 le parterre, 21 vorob'yevy gory, 22 apothecary garden, 23 alexander garden, 24 kuskovo estate museum, 25 patriarch's ponds.

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It depends on when you visit! We've compiled data from NASA on what the weather is like in Moscow for each month of the year: see the links below for more information.

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