Travel to Crimea!

In the first half of the last century, a palace designed by the English architect Edward Blore was built in Alupka (Yalta) for the governor-general of Nova Rossia count Vorontsov. The count’s serfs were erecting this miracle of architecture for 20 years. The north side of the castle has a definite british aspect, its west wing resembles a medieval fortress, while its frontage facing south looks as a kind of moslem temple. The palace wonderfully fits into the panorama of the mountains and the blue expanse of the sea. Thousand of crimean guests file along these facades each so unlike the other, look over the winter garden, library, Chinese study, grand dining hall, blue drawing room.

The Alupka park, by far the best one on the south coast covers 40 hectares.