Koreiz

Koreiz small resort village 15 km from Yalta , situated at the foot of Mount Ay -Petri. Known fact that its territory is the Yusupov Palace.

In addition, there are a large Number of guest houses, holiday homes and sanatoriums. It borders on Gaspra. Mediterranean-type climate .

This is one of the oldest villages of the peninsula , whose history begins with the early medieval period - the end of the VIII century.

At the time he is mentioned as a market place kurasaitov , which translated from Greek means Selishche .

In the middle of the XIX century was a pretty lively Koreiz villages in which there were several shops, a restaurant, a mosque.Koreiza population was mostly Muslim . The first and largest landed estates arose among koreizskih houses and rocks, was the estate of Princess Anna Alekseeva Galitzine . It was built in 1820 .

In 1904, Princess acquired an old estate , Prince Yusupov, Count FF Surmakov - Elson, governor general of Moscow.Yusupov Palace, built in the early XX century by the Yalta architect Krasnov in Neo-Romanesque style with elements of the Italian Renaissance. Steep slope led to the palace architecture : single storey to the north and south, it looks like an ancient powerful fortress in the shape of a horseshoe.The strictness of the building soften sculptures of lions and mythological characters that adorn the entrances , staircases and arches. In February 1945 , during the Yalta conference of heads of the three great powers, the palace housed the Koreizskom Soviet government delegation .

Today it is one of the busiest places of summer tourism.Here are such well-known resorts, as Ai-Petri, Mishor , Marat, Dulber and many others.

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