Alupka

Alupka small cozy city resort on the South Coast of Crimea, situated near the foot of Mount Ai -Petri , near the highway linking the Sevastopol and Yalta.

At various times and rest have been treated by such famous people as Bryusov , Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Kotsjubinsky , Lesia Ukrainka, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Chaliapin , Maxim Gorky , and others

In the fifteenth century the city belonged to the Genoese , and was called Lupika . At this time there was a strong point .

C 1475po 1774 years Alupka the Ottoman Empire.

In 1783godu moved into the domain of Prince Potemkin, AR . In 1823, the owner Alupki becomes governor-general of the Novorossiysk Territory of Count MS Vorontsov.That he left behind the most famous reminder of Alupka , laid a magnificent park and built a palace .

Today, the park and the Vorontsov Palace, which was built between 1830 and 1848 was as a summer residence of a prominent Russian politician, is the pride not only Alupki but the whole Ukraine.Thousands of tourists visit this museum complex , enjoying the beauty of the southern coast and blend well into the nature of the creation of human hands.

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