Alupka is a resort town on the Black Sea, the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula. Distance from Yalta -17 kilometers.
Population: 8,075 (2020).
The climate is subtropical, in January the average temperature is + 5 C, July + 26 C. You can swim in the sea from May to October, the sea temperature varies from +21 C to +25 C.
Vorontsov Palace (museum-reserve) and the top of Ai-Petri are considered the main attractions and symbols of the resort. The city also has a landscape park, in its collection - more than two hundred varieties of flowers, plants and shrubs.
Vorontsov Palace was built in the neo-Moorish style, it was opened in 1848. The summer residence was built for the Holy Prince M. S. Vorontsov (state figure of Russia). The two hosted the participants of the Yalta Conference of the Allied Powers in 1945 - delegates from England under the leadership of Winston Churchill stayed there.
Ai-Petri in Greek means “Saint Peter”, the absolute height of 1234.2 meters. You can get to the top by car, the road from Yalta to Bakhchisarai or using the Miskhor - Sosnovy Bor - Ai-Petri cable car.
Alupka lives by tourism: the city has built sanatoriums (treatment profile: cardiovascular diseases, tuberculosis, lung diseases), hotels and hotels of different price categories. You can also have a snack in dining rooms, cafes, restaurants for every taste.
In different years in Alupka rested and treated M. Gorky, F. Chaliapin, S. Rachmaninov, L. Ukrainka and other famous people.
The beaches of Alupka are more often pebble, the city beach is located under the park of the Vorontsov Palace.
For rest with young children, "Children's Baths" are well suited - this is a cozy cove with amenities, small pebbles and canopies. Also popular beaches "Frog" and "Black hill". There is a separate beach for nudists.
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