Alushta is a quiet and cozy place to relax. You checked into a hotel, swam in the sea and are now ready to have a cultural time and have fun. Alushta will provide you with such an opportunity - a detailed analysis of all the most interesting places in our material.
Unlike the expensive and glamorous Yalta, prices for accommodation and food in Alushta are not prohibitive. And attractions and entertainment: Ai-Petri, Glade of Fairy Tales, tastings, palaces - are equally accessible to those living in both Alushta and Yalta. Therefore, be sure to study in more detail the attractions in the vicinity of Yalta - they will also be useful to you. As well as information about a couple of interesting places on the way from Alushta to Yalta, which also have something to see - Partenite and Gruzuf.
Holiday experience with a small child in Alushta from our author.
Alushta embankment
Unlike Yalta, it is calm and conducive to contemplating nature. The street, paved with paving slabs, offers views of the sea and horizon on one side, and parks, alleys and mountains on the other.
Walk to the Rotunda, a six-column structure with colored flags displayed during the holiday season. Next to the Rotunda is the entrance to the park and water park .
Address: st. Embankment, 4a, on the territory of the Almond Grove recreational complex Telephone: Website: https://aquaparkhotel.ru/akvapark Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00 Cost: from 600 to 1000 rubles per person, depending on the time of visit
In the evening, the Alushta embankment is beautifully illuminated, attracting with music and the smell of delicious food.
Funa Fortress
Another fortress is Funa, located on Mount Demerdzhi (“Blacksmith”). This fortress was built in 1423 to defend the Orthodox principality of Theodoro, which briefly owned these lands. Over the course of subsequent history, the fortress was repeatedly destroyed by natural disasters and wars, after which it was restored. The last time this happened was in 1927, due to the famous Yalta earthquake. Slow restoration of the fortress continues to this day.
Ruins of the Funa fortress
Opening hours: 9–18. A regular ticket costs 75 rubles, and an excursion ticket costs 100. From the entrance to Luchistoye, a paved road leads to the mountain, at the foot of which the Podkova equestrian club is based.
Historical buildings of Alushta and Professor's Corner
Take a walk along the streets of the city - Embankment, Lenin, 15th April, Komsomolskaya. This is the Professor's Corner - an elite vacation spot in Alushta. You will see buildings - architectural monuments: Golubka Dacha, Aluston Fortress, the Beketov House Museum, the Temple of Theodore Stratilates and Mount Kastel.
In the Professor's Corner there is a concentration of restored mansions - both monuments and simply beautiful buildings. Parks, pedestrian alleys, and fountains brighten up the buildings.
FAQ
Where can you go with children in Alushta? Dolphinarium "Aquarelle", "Animal Park" in Alushta, Miniature Park, Dolphinarium "Nemo", Multipark, Crimean Nature Reserve, Alushta Aquarium, Water Park "Almond Grove".
What can you see in Alushta for free? Mammoth tree, House of the merchant Stakheev, Seaside Park in Alushta, Temple in the name of all Crimean saints.
3 main attractions of Alushta that are definitely worth a visit? Professor's Corner, Alushta Museum of History and Local Lore, Aluston Fortress, Alushta Embankment.
Yusupov Palace
Address: town. Koreiz, Park Descent, 26 Telephone: excursion department: +7-978-782-10-16, accommodation: +7-978-053-40-99 Website: https://yusupov-dvorec.udprf-crimea.com/ Opening hours: by agreement, entrance only with a guided tour Cost: please call for details
Not as “promoted” as Livadia or Vorontsovsky. Maybe because of the modest façade? But the most beautiful and interesting thing is hidden in the courtyard - 12 lions lined up, a fountain with a little mermaid, old trees: an olive tree is more than 600 years old, an oak tree - 200 years old. Lions are a unique symbol of this palace - they guard any entrance on both sides.
Inside you will see Stalin's office, and outside there are three cypress trees planted in honor of the victorious countries in World War II.
In addition to the excursion in the palace, you can rent apartments: “Stalin”, “Yusupov”, “Molotov” - any of them are at your service for good money.
Where else can you go from Alushta - attractions and entertainment around Yalta? To Crimea by train - is it worth it? Cheap hotels in Alushta with meals - up to 2500 rubles per day Choosing a boarding house for a family holiday in Alushta
Valley of Ghosts
The fabulous-looking rock figures are the result of weathering of volcanic formations on the southwestern slope of the Demerdzhi ridge. Conglomerates of the Upper Jurassic period represent the most ancient rocks that emerged on the surface of the Crimean land, the age of which, according to geologists, ranges from 800 million to 1 billion years.
Demerdzhi, whose height above sea level is 1240 meters, is a jagged mountain located north of Alushta and east of the Angarsk Pass. The mountain range consists of northern and southern parts, separated by a saddle. In 1894, the Southern Demerdzhi Massif collapsed. As a result, the Tatar settlement suffered, the inhabitants of which subsequently abandoned it.
In 1966 there was a second collapse. This phenomenon happened again in 1992. Accumulations of rock debris formed at the disaster site.
Large fragments of rocky debris are transformed by the imagination of travelers into fantastic images of fairy-tale creatures, which gave rise to calling the area the Valley of Ghosts.
Walk along the hiking routes of the Alushta Mountains
You will find a description of popular Crimean routes here: https://mycrimea.su/hiking/ If you decide to go on a serious hike in the mountains for a few days, then this link will help you: https://www.krimoved-library.ru/books /olinskiy-krim-putevoditel-spravochnik31.html
There are trails around the city past waterfalls and caves. If you visit in May or early summer, you will see the waterfalls in all their glory. The Demerdzhi Plateau, the Khapkhal Gorge, the Kanak Balka, the Grand Canyon of Crimea, the Chatyr-Daga Plateau with the Bottomless Cave, the Valley of Ghosts - all this will be available to you if you pack a backpack, buy a map and go on a hike.
Marble Cave
If you go down from the top of Chatyr-Dag following the signs, you can get into another cave called Mramornaya. Entering it after visiting Emine-Bair-Khozar, you are surprised by the huge vaults of the halls. One of them is the height of a 9-story building and the size of a football field.
The guide will also introduce the names of each stalactite and invite tourists to take pictures near the stone called “Kiss”. In this place, stalactite and stalagmite occur together. If you make your way up the mountain in your car, do not rush, as the road is rocky and full of potholes; many cars are damaged on this climb. If you don’t have an SUV, then you can spare your car and leave it at the foot of the mountain, and go up on foot or ask for a bus that takes excursions to the caves.
Entertainment for children and adults
Dolphinarium
Address: st. Gorkogo, 7-D Telephone: book tickets for the show: +7 (978) 830 30 30, sign up for dolphin therapy Website: https://www.delfinarium.com.ua/ Opening hours: closed - Monday, other days of the show takes place at 15:00 and 18:00. Cost: show - from 400 rubles, swimming with a dolphin - from 3500 rubles, dolphin therapy - 4000-50000 rubles from 1 to 10 days
To watch a show with dolphins and fur seals, you don’t need to go to Yalta. Alushta has its own dolphinarium: here you can swim with dolphins and undergo dolphin therapy. And also - buy at auction a picture personally drawn by animals. Don’t get carried away, otherwise in the excitement you can easily leave all your money there.
Miniature Park
Address: st. Gorkogo, 7 Phone: Website: https://park-miniatur.ru/ Opening hours: from May to October - from 09:00 to 23:00 seven days a week Cost: adult ticket - 600 rubles (from 12 years old), children's ticket - 400 rubles (from 3-12 years old)
Do you want to embrace the whole of Crimea in a few hours? See small palaces, cities, mountains and waterfalls? Yalta, Alushta, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Bakhchisarai - take a look at these cities and you will understand that you definitely need to visit them. The park is open all year round, all day and seven days a week.
Multipark
Address: st. Gorkogo, 16 Phone: Website: https://mult-park.ru/ Opening hours: from 09:00 – 22:00 seven days a week Cost: 400 and 300 rubles for adults and children, respectively
When you arrive with children, be sure to take them to the Multipark. They will see the heroes of their favorite cartoons - Snow White, Mickey Mouse, girls from Monster School, Shrek. In addition to modern characters, everyone’s favorite ones from Soviet times are presented: Carlson, Winnie the Pooh, Matroskin. A large kaleidoscope, an inflatable trampoline and a mini-zoo are installed in a prominent place.
Alushta Aquarium
Address: st. Gorkogo, 4 Phone: Website: https://alushta-aqua.ru/ Opening hours: in summer: from 09:00-21:00 (ticket office until 20) Cost: from 13 years old - 600 rubles, up to 13 - 400 rubles per person
In addition to the exhibition hall with residents of the Black and Azov Seas, there is an exhibition of corals and sea shells, inhabitants of the Red Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and freshwater fish from all over the world.
There is a terrarium and an aquatherapy salon. This is a course of treatment with the help of live fish: you put your feet or hands in a container where the fish are swimming - when they touch your skin, they not only heal, but also tickle you quite a bit.
Dendrozoo
Address: Alushta, st. Partizanskaya, 42
In addition to the animals walking around the spacious enclosures, the zoo is equipped with an observation deck and benches in the shade of trees. You can get to the place using these instructions: https://crimea-blog.com/dendrozoo.html
Day visit to Mriya Resort & SPA
Address: Yalta, p. Opolznevoye, General Ostryakov Street, 9 Phone: Website: https://mriyaresort.com/dream-day/ Opening hours: Mon-Sun 08:00 - 22:00 Cost (season/off-season):
- Adult with meals – 9,000 rubles/6,000 rubles.
- Adult without meals – 6,000 rubles/3,000 rubles.
- Children's with meals – 6,000 rub. / 3,000 rub.
- Children without food – 3000 rub. / 1500 rub.
Check the exact cost on the website or by phone.
There are an incredible number of interesting and beautiful places in Crimea. You can come here again and again, and there will still be items on your tourist checklist that are a must-see. The large-scale resort complex Mriya Resort & SPA has been one of these places for a long time. Many people know it as a hotel, although you can visit it without staying. Available to all guests and residents of the peninsula.
Relax in the SPA center, swim in the pool, sunbathe on the modern beach, stroll along the paths of the Japanese Garden or try yourself in a rope camp. Sounds like a good plan for a long vacation, but at Mriya Resort & SPA you can get all these experiences in just one day!
“Dream Day” is a day when you can walk around the complex from morning until evening, use its services - there will be entertainment for every family member.
Includes visits to many locations of the complex:
- indoor and outdoor swimming pools
- spa zones: Finnish and cedar saunas, hammam in the SPA center
- beach area
- Japanese Garden "Six Senses"
- gym and scheduled group training
- entertainment center Metropolis
- children's amusement park Dreamwood
- Winepark
- children's club and games room (children over 4 years old are allowed to stay without parents)
- concerts of invited stars, events on the day of the visit (according to the poster on the website)
- meals: depending on the ticket category, meals at the Azurr Swedish line restaurant may be included.
You can also visit one of the 8 bars and restaurants located on the territory of the complex. At your service: European, Italian, Mediterranean, Asian and of course local, Crimean cuisine.
Japanese Garden "Six Senses"
Address: Yalta, p. Opolznevoye, General Ostryakova Street, 9 Phone: Website: Japanese-sad.rf Opening hours: Mon-Sun 08:00 - 22:00 (from September to May - until 20:00) Cost of the excursion: Group excursion - 1500 ₽/person , preferential categories of citizens and children 6–14 — 1,000 ₽/person. Check the entire list of services and tariffs on the website or by phone.
Guests of Crimea, who have already visited various palaces, wineries, parks and other attractions of Crimea more than once, having had enough of them, will be able to get acquainted with and try a completely different format of tourist recreation.
The Japanese Garden of Six Senses is a place for contemplative relaxation and leisurely walks in Crimea.
Six Senses is a three-level, 6-hectare walking garden where guests can see with their own eyes several types of Japanese gardens in one place: a tea garden, a walking garden with a stream and a pond, a dry rock garden, a shady garden and buildings of Japanese architecture.
The pearl of the garden is the open thermal baths overlooking the sea and mountains.
Here, a visitor to the peninsula in search of new entertainment and experiences will be able to discover a new, different type of vacation: thoughtful, contemplative, filled with meaning.
Guests of the garden have numerous opportunities: you can take part in an excursion, take a yoga class, plunge into thermal springs with stunning views of the sea, or enjoy a tea ceremony.
The author of the project is Shiro Nakane, curator of the Imperial Japanese Garden in Kyoto. The garden is located on the territory of the five-star Mriya Resort & SPA. Every year about 25,000 people become its guests.
Waterpark "Almond Grove"
What to visit in Alushta first if you are vacationing with children? Of course, a water park. It’s just a stone’s throw away, just walk along the embankment to the right of the rotunda to the end. This huge structure with many attractions and various slides was built in 2004.
You can spend the whole day riding the slides, swimming in the large pool and sunbathing in the warm southern sun on the sun loungers. And how happy the children will be, for whom there is a small paddling pool. The townspeople are very proud of this marvel of engineering, because the length of all the slides is about 1 km, there is a wave pool and a solarium, a jacuzzi and an entertainment pool. A particularly unforgettable sight is the waterfall flowing into the pool.
If you are still choosing where to go in Alushta, then be sure to go to the water park. Not only children will be happy and surprised. A sea of positive emotions is caused by many fountains, canals with currents, and tunnels. The complex is designed for 1,500 vacationers, but 14 slides, 6 large swimming pools and 4 Jacuzzis cope with the task perfectly.
You can take a break from water activities at the billiard table, playing bowling or snooker. In the evening, be sure to stay for the disco. If you wish, visit the Finnish sauna or Roman bath, trust the massage therapist, or spend active leisure time in the gym.
Museums
House-museum of A. Beketov
Address: st. Komsomolskaya, 4 Phone: +7(36560)5-79-43 Website: https://alushta-museum.ru/ Opening hours: from 10:00 - 17:00, Sunday, Monday - weekend Cost :
- for adults - 100 rub.
- for pensioners - 80 rubles.
- for students - 50 rub. (if documents are available)
- children under 16 years old - free
Excursion service:
- groups from 1 to 9 people. — 150 rub.
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting one museum - 500 rubles.
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting 2 museums - 300 rubles. every museum
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting 3 museums - 150 rubles. every museum
Paid events - 50 rub.
Among the intellectuals who looked at the Alushta area for the construction of a dacha was the architect Alexey Nikolaevich Beketov. Villa “Marina” in Alushta and the Simferopol Drama Theater are famous buildings built according to his designs. And, of course, when planning his own dacha, the architect did his best - it is considered a monument.
The house is decorated in Moorish style and made from local materials. Even if you are not familiar with Beketov’s work, you will love this cozy corner with access to the sea.
Museum of Disasters on the Waters
Address: pos. Malorechenskoye, st. Dizha, 17 Phone: + 79780594144 Website: https://water-disasters-museum.com/ Opening hours: from 09:00 – 18:00 without breaks and weekends Cost: Without excursion: 100 rubles for adults and 50 for children’s tickets, with excursion – 1660 and 100 rubles, respectively
Please note that the Museum of Water Disasters is temporarily closed for technical reasons.
Sounds like a great name, isn't it? The museum itself, located in the basement of the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, makes no less an impression: the visitor finds himself on board a sunken ship, walks through its rooms and holds, watches videos describing sea shipwrecks.
Step by step you will be shown photographs, wrecks of ships and their equipment. You will be completely immersed in the atmosphere of the inevitable collapse in the depths of the sea with the help of documentary chronicles, archival videos and the interior: the walls seem to be overgrown with algae, and you are walking on the seabed.
After such a gloomy but alluring exhibition, it’s so nice to come out of the dungeon into the sunlight and see the quiet and calm blue sea.
Historical and Local Lore Museum
Address: St. Lenina, 8 Phone: +7 (36560) 3-55-09
Perhaps when you come to Alushta, the last thing you expect is to visit an art museum. But, walking along the embankment, you will often pass by and still look there out of curiosity.
Archaeological finds, old vessels, an ethnographic collection, and personal belongings of participants in the Patriotic War make up the fund of this museum, collected in the 60s.
Literary and Memorial Museum of Sergeev-Tsensky
Address: st. Sergeeva - Tsensky, 5 Phone: +7(36560) 2-21-08, mobile phone: + 7 978 883 06 65 Website: https://alushta-museum.ru/ Opening hours: from 09:00 -17:00 except Sunday and Monday Cost : Entrance ticket to the museum:
- for adults - 100 rub.
- for pensioners - 80 rubles.
- for students - 50 rub. (if documents are available)
- children under 16 years old - free
Excursion service:
- groups from 1 to 9 people. — 150 rub.
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting one museum - 500 rubles.
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting 2 museums - 300 rubles. every museum
- groups from 10 to 20 people. when visiting 3 museums - 150 rubles. every museum
Paid events - 50 rub.
The writer built his house twice: the first time in 1905, having acquired a plot in the vicinity of Alushta, and the second time after the war, when, returning from Germany, he found ruins, a destroyed archive and library, and a cut-down garden.
Restoring the house and park took about two years, and now we see the museum in the form that the writer left us.
House-museum of Shmelev I.S.
Address: st. Embankment, 2 Phone: +38 (06560) 2-59-90, mobile phone. +7 978 742 95 29 Website: https://alushta-museum.ru/ Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00, except Sunday and Monday.
Be afraid of your desires - they may come true. This quote perfectly reflects the life of the Russian writer in Alushta. For many years he longed to build himself a house in Crimea, and when he acquired the plot and began construction, Russia was torn apart by civil war.
As a result, Shmelev was forced to emigrate to Europe, and the four years spent at his much-coveted dacha in Crimea became a nightmare for him and formed the basis for his work “The Sun of the Dead.”
Jur-Jur waterfall
Address: Alushta, Generalskoye village.
The sights of Alushta are represented by many natural beauties. Not far from the city, in the picturesque, wooded Khapkhal gorge, there is the deepest waterfall in Crimea - Dzhur-Dzhur. Its height is about 16 meters, formed by the Eastern Ulu-Uzen River. Translated from Turkic languages, the name of the waterfall means “murmuring”.
Jur-Jur waterfall is a popular tourist destination. Next to it there is a cave 750 meters long with the same name. If you go up from the waterfall, you can see three natural bowls with clear water. According to legend, each of these bowls has healing and magical properties: if you take a bath in the first, all sins will be forgiven, the second bath will give you youth and health, and the third will give you good luck in love. It is not surprising that there are always a lot of people who want to take a dip here, despite the fact that the water is very cold - no more than 10˚C.
Where to taste delicious dishes
The largest concentration of catering outlets awaits tourists along the embankment. There is an establishment for every taste and income, from pretentious to small eateries and cafes. Fish and coffee cooked on hot sand are especially appreciated by lovers. The most affordable canteens on the street. Embankment 6, Khromykh 25 "A". Cafes with a pleasant variety, including a children's menu, are “Golden Fish”, “Barabulya Bar”. For a full lunch in a pleasant atmosphere, the restaurants “Lesnoy”, “Vodoley” and the cafe “Vstrecha” are suitable.
In Alushta, interesting places for leisure are found literally at every step, so your vacation turns out to be full of impressions, vivid photographs as a keepsake and an amazing feeling of unity with nature under the vast sky of Crimea.
