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.
Alushta resort
Alushta, along with Yalta, is another major resort on the southern coast of Crimea, and of course we included a tour of this city in our route around Crimea .
The Alushta resort itself is not of particular interest; all the beauty is located outside the city. The city and its surroundings are called Big Alushta and in addition to Alushta itself, it includes such resorts as: Partenit, Rybachye, Malorechenskoye, Solnechnogorskoye, Maly Mayak, Privetnoye.
The best resorts of Crimea on the South Coast→
The Crimea region of Greater Alushta is very rich in natural attractions, there are mountains, caves, and picturesque lakes with waterfalls.
Recommendation: to visit all the interesting places in the surrounding area, spend at least 3 days in this region of Crimea. It is more convenient to explore the sights of Crimea by car; I recommend renting a car on the services Myrentacar.com or Economybookings - these are reliable aggregators, prices are reasonable, from 1,200 rubles per day for a standard sedan.
Our experience of renting a car in Crimea and reviews →
Personal experience: you can safely choose the city of Alushta as a base for sightseeing, excellent infrastructure, there are supermarkets. I recommend a proven, excellent guest house in the city center.
Housing in Alushta⇒
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Next, I’ll tell you what to see in Alushta and the surrounding area on your own. Let's look at the sights of Alushta that are worth visiting and prices. By the way, most places can be visited completely free of charge.
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.
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
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.
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.
First walk
For the locomotives that stand on the pedestals of the railway station with the territory of the Dzerzhinsky plant and the armored train “Ilya Muromets”, which received registration on the Vladimir highway in the PKiO named after the 50th anniversary of Soviet power, for the sake of our curiosity, no one will lay rails around the city. Life at the former airfield also comes to life only on the days of the city’s great holidays, and even then with invited airplane and helicopter crews and parachutists. Regular bus routes do not reach every corner, and traveling by taxi is not affordable for everyone. And taxi drivers are unlikely to take on the troubles of a guide. Therefore, I will allow myself to use the service of a lover of extreme activities, my good friend, a motor glider pilot under the pseudonym “Extreme”, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bondarev .
Sparkling in the eighties of the last century on the stage of the builders' club and on tour around the region as an actor, Volodya became interested in cinema and photography. Thanks to this hobby, many of his works have been preserved in my archives in photo albums and on videotapes, which he now continues to digitize. And his passion for motor gliding and possession of a video camera, with his kind consent, lifts me with you above the surviving pieces of history from the sixteenth century to the present day.
When I flew on a plane - a maize truck, which plied between Murom and Vladimir, regular flights on airliners do not give such pleasure, then the entire flight I could not take my eyes off the window, behind which square fields, forests of the Meshcherskaya lowland, strips of roads, boxes of houses floated by. and even small dots of people. A walk on a motor glider deprives those who want to fly of the protection of an airplane cabin, and the feeling of flight becomes not imaginary, but real! You're flying! And once you get used to the state of flight, you begin to explore the world above and below you! Familiar places that have been traveled far and wide open up with new facets! The horizon moves away and you see a more detailed image of buildings, people, equipment... Details are revealed that you didn’t pay attention to while walking along the sidewalks, and from above you have the opportunity to examine in detail the object that interests you.
PHOTO Resurrection, Trinity and Annunciation monasteries
If you look from north to south, and the airfield is located in the north of the city border, the first thing that opens up is: on the left is a protective forest belt, or as we used to call it “Birch Grove”, along the former railway line Murom-2 - Kovrov, and on the right is Vladimirskoye Highway . The “Birch Grove” along the existing bypass route from Murom-1 also makes noise from the fifth kilometer towards Aleksandrovka, connecting behind the airfield with a defunct branch from Murom-2 and until recently served as the border between the city and the airfield.
We rise higher and ahead, glancing along the Vladimir highway, through the bus station, through the towering elevator, a panorama of the Southern microdistrict opens up, and on the right - Nezhilovka, Sobachaevka and by the will of people, between Sobachaevka and the military town, in the north-west of the city, the "Africa" microdistrict has grown » with the “Crocodile” store and the “Crystal” ice palace. A little further towards the horizon, where the bypass road under construction points the way, you can see the nine-story buildings of the legendary Verbovsky village, which is currently included within the borders of Murom.
But let’s turn our attention to the west and fly to the beautiful Oka.
PHOTO From Sverdlov to the 1100th Anniversary Square along Moskovskaya
A workers' village with a central hospital complex, a headquarters bridge with houses from the Stalin era, a monastery square with a monument to Peter and Fevronya, the square of the 1100th anniversary of Murom with a water tower and A.V. Ermakov, and behind the administration building there is a local history museum, located in the house of the Zvorykin merchants. The father of television, V.K., was born in this house. Zvorykin, whose monument was unveiled near his home on July 31, 2013. And all this is at arm's length. A little to the west we will see Victory Square with the beautiful Palace of Culture named after the 1100th anniversary of Murom, the building of the central bank, the Ascension Church restored after liberation from the ShRM, and a little deeper, on Karl Marx Street - the beautiful mansion of the pedagogical lyceum and the restored Sretenskaya Church.
But let’s return to the monastery square, to the Holy Trinity Women’s Monastery with the Church of Sergei of Radonezh and the relics of Peter and Fevronya, and the Annunciation Monastery, from there to go down to the Oka River.
“Whoever has not seen Murom and the Oka has not seen Russian beauty” Maxim Gorky
And indeed - babble! The panorama of the Yakimanskaya and Dmitrievskaya settlements opens up in full view, and just downstream stands the beautiful “Cable-stayed bridge”, which in 2013 emerged as the winner among Russian bridges.
PHOTO Cable-stayed bridge from the city side
And on the steep bank of the Oka, like a white swan, the Resurrection Monastery proudly rises above the river, restored after a long stay within its walls as a sports school.
PHOTO West and East
We fly upstream. Some historical monuments! St. Nicholas Embankment Church, Oka Park with a monument to the defender of Rus' Ilya Muromets. Once on this territory there was the Kremlin, the Mother of God Cathedral, and shopping arcades. The Kremlin has been destroyed by time, the cathedral was destroyed in the 30s of the twentieth century, and only a part of the shopping arcade has survived to this day.
At the Oksky Congress, a beautified embankment begins, which stretches to the Murom pier, and every time I find myself on the embankment, I am overcome with a feeling of pride that a part of my work has been invested in the improvement of this embankment. If the parapet gratings were made in the neighboring foundry shop of our plant, then the wooden frame is the work of our workshop.
PHOTO Oksky Park and Nikolo-Embankment Church
With the advent of the cable-stayed bridge, the need for a pontoon bridge became a thing of history, and now at the entrance to the pontoon bridge, annually on the day of Peter and Fevronya, the final concerts of the holiday dedicated to love and fidelity are held on the erected stage, at which even high-ranking guests of the state are present.
If the tent of the Kozmodemyanskaya Church is visible from any point on the embankment, then to the Smolensk Church, erected in honor of the victory in 1812, it is better to climb the stairs past Kozmodemyanskaya. Although from above, both churches look great.
It would be a great sin not to look into the territory of the most ancient monastery of Orthodox Rus', the Spassky Monastery. You can walk from the Smolensk Church, or you can climb up the mountain past the ancient walls from the side of the pier. Impressive! On the territory of the monastery, someone will enjoy the decoration, someone will be impressed by the history, and someone will venerate the relics of Ilya of Murom, brought from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
PHOTO Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and Bogatyreva Mountain (Gubkin St.)
There is also something to see, learn and buy in DNT. Moreover, the corner of the monastery and the corner of the House of Folk Art, which has now become accessible to foreign guests, are located across the road.
But let's continue our way up the Oka. After all, we are in the historical homeland of the legendary hero of Kievan Rus and it will be a shame for the guests of the city that, having venerated the relics of the great monk, they did not have the strength to walk two gallops of his horse to the holy source of his name.
PHOTO Two banks on Moskovskaya: Moscow Industrial and Sberbank
The Murom port in pre-perestroika times was a busy place. Motor ships with excursionists moored regularly, and as for the hydrofoil routes, they went strictly on schedule both to Gorky and to Kasimov. The Murom textile mill “Red Ray” was also known throughout the Soviet Union. And the importance of the railway bridge across the Oka on the Moscow-Kazan route, which became double-track in the seventies and eighties of the last century, cannot be overestimated at all.
The territory of the plywood mill, which is also famous for the production of aircraft plywood, is clearly visible from above, but completely invisible from the river. But its neighbor, the “Uvarov Palace,” is clearly visible. After all, before the expropriation of the palace and its property, the building looked like a palace, and the park and stairs from the palace went down to the river itself.
Four blocks from the palace you can see the Karacharovo Trinity Church with its bell tower, and below that legendary spring from Burushka’s first leap. In total, eight Burushka skoks live in legends and eight springs bear the names of saints.
to be continued…
Ivan Vasilievich Kostin
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.”
Alushta
History of Alushta
Monument to the Liberators of Alushta In written sources, mentions of Alushta have been found since the 6th century, after the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I erected the Aluston fortress here and built a large harbor.
Subsequently, the fortification passed to the Genoese, who for a long time could not share the bastion and port with the neighboring principality of Theodoro. After the Turks arrived in Crimea, Alushta quickly fell into decline, degrading into an unsightly Black Sea village, which it remained until the 18th century. The future resort began to grow and develop only after Crimea was annexed to the Russian Empire and received the status of a volost center. Moreover, things did not go well for the town right away, as a result of which permanent fans of Alushta appeared only towards the end of the 19th century, when it turned into a nice, ennobled town. Soon rumors about a new Black Sea resort reached the ears of the Russian intelligentsia, who rushed to buy land and real estate in its vicinity. As an example: by the beginning of the 20th century, most of the dachas in the city belonged to famous scientists and medical luminaries.
Alushta. Carlo Bossoli. From the album “Landscapes and Sights of Crimea”, Sheet 29 (1856). Temple of Theodore Stratilates on the central hill, to the left of the Genoese towers.
Best time to travel
Alushta in June
In climatic terms, Alushta is the same as Yalta, but with some additional “options”. So, for example, despite the fact that the summer heat here is almost the same as in the resort capital of the southern coast of Crimea, it is more easily tolerated due to the breezes blowing towards the city during the daytime. The microclimate is also formed by two mountain passes (Angarsky and Kebit-Bogaz), thanks to which there is an intensive exchange of air masses between the sea and the surrounding plains. But autumn and winter in Alushta are no different from those in Yalta: it is still warm (the average local January temperature is +4 °C) and relatively humid (the bulk of precipitation falls from October to February).
Formally, the swimming season in this part of the South Coast starts in May and subsides by October. However, if you plan not only to test the strength of beach loungers, but also to swim properly, it is better to come to Alushta in July-August, when a thermometer lowered into the water shows +25...+27 °C. For vacationers going to the resort to get acquainted with the wellness programs of local sanatoriums, it is wiser to book places closer to May-October. The fact is that the main healing factor of the city is climatic. And late spring and mid-autumn are the best time to enjoy air saturated with iodine and pine resins, without melting under the Crimean sun, which is too generous with ultraviolet radiation.
Alushta in winter
Sights and entertainment in Alushta
15th century tower in Alushta
In Alushta there is where to go within the city limits and what to see in the surrounding area. The most visited attraction within the resort remains the Aluston fortress, which marked the beginning of its history. More precisely, not the entire fortress, but its epic ruins in the form of a stone tower and a section of a wall. In the center of the city there is the Golubka dacha, built at the beginning of the 19th century, an elegant mansion made of grayish-beige Crimean shell rock, where the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II met his future wife, Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Another historical building called Villa “Otrada” is located in the Primorsky Park. The exquisite building with a massive colonnade belonged to the millionaire M. D. Stakheev, but it became famous among the townspeople thanks to the visits of the artist I. I. Shishkin, who got into the habit of spending his holidays here. By the way, about the park in which the villa is located. The recreation area was founded by the same Stakheev, who planted olive trees, cork oaks, as well as various species of coniferous and rare deciduous trees on its territory. Today in the Primorsky Park you can not just sit on a bench, looking at the greenery raging around you, but also play sports, take the kids to fun rides and order a cartoon from the artists sitting along the edges of the alleys.
Temple in the name of All Crimean Saints and Theodore Stratilates
The Church of All Crimean Saints and Fyodor Stratilates, which is unlike any other resort church, can also impress. The fact is that the main sponsor of the construction, Count Vorontsov, was very fond of everything English, so he chose the appropriate design for the building - a mixture of Gothic and Anglican architecture. Not far from the Alushta embankment there is a wonderful place in all respects - the “Crimea in Miniature” park, so when you don’t have the time or energy to thoughtfully explore the sights of the peninsula, you can cheat and get acquainted with their smaller copies. In total, there are about 40 “Lilliputian” exhibits in the park.
Park "Crimea in miniature"If you want more official exhibitions, in Alushta you will find the Literary Museum of the writer Ivan Shmelev, the Literary and Memorial Museum of Sergeev-Tsensky, and the House-Museum of the architect Beketov. Vacationers arriving at the resort with their entire families can benefit from recharging with positive emotions in the Animal Park and the city aquarium. Local dolphinariums “Nemo” and “Akvarel” also offer no less exciting show programs. You can also pamper yourself with swimming in the company of marine mammals - “only” 3,500 rubles for a five-minute swim.
Alushta AquariumFans of adrenaline-stimulating attractions are recommended to purchase a subscription to the water park of the Almond Grove resort and recreational complex - wave pools, serpentine slides and other “wet joys” are included. Beginner sommeliers and simply those who like to try new varieties of wine will not be disappointed. By the way, it is for the sake of a tour of his cellars that buses with “tasters” from all over Greater Yalta rush to Alushta.
Waterpark "Almond Grove"
Nearby attractions
The approaches to the resort boast no less impressive objects than the city itself. In particular, in the vicinity of Alushta there are wonderful mountain landscapes, and there are also many places of cosmic power where you can discover artifacts of unknown origin. One of these tracts is the Demerdzhi-yayla mountain range, where the Valley of Ghosts is located and where Gaidai filmed several episodes for the comedy “Prisoner of the Caucasus.” Here you can find rock formations in the form of figures of people and animals, and at the same time get acquainted with the Brocken Ghost - an amazing optical illusion that occurs in foggy weather as a result of the play of light rays.
Demerdzhi-yayla
Brocken Ghost
View of Mount Castel
Mount Kastel, located at the southern tip of Alushta, has its own legends. Somewhere on its slopes the remains of an ancient fortress were lost, in which Theodora, the mythical queen of the state of Sugdea (today the city of Sudak), the existence of which historians are still debating, first hid and then heroically died. Beginners and experienced speleologists will be impressed by excursions to the Chatyr-Dag massif, which is literally riddled with caves and underground mines. The most convenient place to recharge yourself with cosmic energy and reflect on ancient civilizations is in the Sotera River valley - a place where you can find a number of “stone mushrooms” (vertical rock formations with earthen-tuff plates placed on them).
Stone mushrooms of the Sotera River valley
A mandatory excursion program in the outskirts of Alushta also includes a visit to the Dzhur-Dzhur waterfall (Solnechnogorskoye village). This is the deepest and most powerful waterfall in Crimea, near which it is pleasant to relax, but nothing more: swimming in Dzhur-Dzhur is a serious extreme sport, since the water flow carries stones with it.
Jur-Jur waterfall
Palace of Princess Gagarina
Of the architectural structures outside the city, the whimsical and at the same time mystical Palace of Princess Gagarina in the village of Utes, the Kosmo-Damianovsky monastery with a holy spring, hidden in the Babugan-yayla mountain range, and the medieval Funa fortress, located at the foot of mountain peak South Demerdzhi. In addition, in the vicinity of Alushta you can find a couple of non-trivial exhibitions, for example, the private mini-museum “House of Brownies” in the village of Zaprudnoye or the Museum of Water Disasters in Malorechenskoye, which has found shelter in the basement of the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra.
Beaches of Alushta
The resort is lucky with its beaches. A wide coastline with pebble and, much less frequently, sandy surfaces stretches for almost 80 km along the sea. Conventionally, all swimming places in Alushta are divided into three types:
- free municipal beaches with paid rental of sun loungers and umbrellas;
- municipal sites with sunbeds and awnings, equipped with showers and toilets, but with paid entrance;
- beaches assigned to sanatoriums and hotels, access to which is given to guests of the establishments and, in rare cases, to guests.
The main city beach is called Laskiy Bereg and runs parallel to the resort promenade. Its vast territory is beautiful in everything - developed infrastructure, accessibility (the center of Alushta is a few minutes walk), and a variety of water attractions. However, the beach has a serious disadvantage that outweighs all its advantages - it is super popular among vacationers. So, if you want to stake out a place here, come at dawn, or better yet, spend the night nearby. By the way, among local residents, Laskovy Bereg has a reputation as a beach for lazy people who are ready to splash in muddy water, lie on pebbles in the midst of hot bodies, but in close proximity to a cafe.
Beaches of Alushta
Adjacent to the main city swimming area on the north side is the Children's Beach, assigned to the Center for Children and Youth Creativity. Underfoot here you find pebbles mixed with sand, and the shallow water area is much larger than on other beaches. In addition, due to its distance from public transport stops, Detsky is less popular among tourists than its neighbor. Accordingly, if there is no place for your towel on the Laskovy Bereg, take a walk in a northerly direction and move here.
Professor's Corner
The second center of attraction for Alushta bathers is the Professor's Corner, where, along with pebbles, shale sand is also found. The 2.5 km long coastline is divided by breakwaters into several mini-beaches, most of which belong to sanatoriums and boarding houses (“Sea”, “Alushta”, “Dnepr”). Here they are only willing to rent out an umbrella to uninvited guests - the best places are reserved for guests. The second half of the site remains municipal, but with an entrance fee. However, the official “tax” here is ridiculous - about 100 rubles, and this amount includes not only access to the sea, but also a sun lounger.
The amenities of civilization in the Professor's Corner are also in perfect order: there is somewhere to eat, have fun, rent sports equipment and even get a massage. The only difficulty is the path to the coastline. In many areas there are no pedestrian paths, which means you have to meander for a long time to find the right place.
Alushta embankment
If you have a strong desire to get away from the bustle of the central beaches, welcome to the eastern part of Alushta. The places here are not completely wild, but there are definitely no mountains of bodies on the shore, and the coastal cover is approximately the same as within the city, that is, pebbly. But it’s better to get here by car - the journey on foot will be long and exhausting. The most civilized beach in this direction is considered to be Royal. It is closer to the center of the resort, so it has retained a semblance of infrastructure.
Stones of Destiny
Everything east of Korolevskoe is a relatively deserted area, where you will have to sacrifice basic amenities in favor of silence and clean water. As for sun loungers, you can find tents offering them for rent here too. By the way, it is in the east of Alushta that there is a nudist beach, so those arriving at the resort to “have fun in a primitive way” are better off anchoring at the end of the Eastern embankment, the landmark is the last breakwater.
In cases where you want to get away from the crowd of Alushta beaches, but it’s a pity to part with comfort, neighboring villages will come to the rescue. For example, in Satera there is a small but quite cozy piece of the coast, on which there are places even during the peak season. It is better to go to Semidvorye with children. Here the shore is wider, with imported sand and a narrow pebble border at the very edge of the water. The infrastructure in the village is also great - there are sanatoriums, various taverns and rental points for everything in the world nearby. In addition, young holidaymakers will definitely appreciate the gentle slopes to the water, which is quite a rare occurrence in this part of the South Coast. However, it’s better not to forget about the pebbles and large pebbles on the seabed here, since the range of rubber slippers in the Semidvorsky kiosks is designed for every taste and budget.
Sanatorium treatment
In Alushta health resorts, they prefer to focus not on trendy procedures, but on natural healing factors - swimming in the sea, climate, helio-mud and aromatherapy, as well as hydrotherapy. By the way, about the water used in city sanatoriums. They do not have their own mineral springs on their territory, so the water in the pump rooms of the health resorts is imported. Usually this is life-giving moisture from the Yalta, Saki and Alushta deposits.
Important information: not all Alushta sanatoriums operate during the low season, so carefully study the institutions’ websites before a winter or autumn trip.
Alushta Reserve
Most resort health centers specialize in diseases of the nervous, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems, as well as problems of the ENT organs. But you can also find places with other profiles. In particular, “Aivazovsky” and “Alushta” provide excellent treatment for allergies. In “Slavutich” they normalize the digestive system, and in “Utyos” and “Blue Wave” they fight diseases of the endocrine system.
Sanatorium prices can vary: from budget to premium, depending on the selected package of services. The period of the best prices in the warm season is May-June. If you try, in this period you can grab a modest room with three meals a day and a set of medical procedures for only 2,500 rubles. per day. By July, the price level in health resorts skyrockets. As an example: you can book a comfort room in July at Utes for no less than 9,800 rubles.
Where to stay
The choice of housing in Alushta is not limited to sanatoriums. In this regard, the resort is universal and welcomes both respectable guests and adherents of budget holidays who are ready to be content with an ascetic room rented from one of the locals. The most expensive housing options are traditionally located near the sea. But if there is a need for global savings, you can move deeper into the city - there will be no less interesting offers in terms of price.
Riviera Sunrise Resort & SPA Alushta
In general, three main types of housing can be distinguished in Alushta - fashionable hotel complexes with their own private beaches (three or four stars), small private hotels (with one star or no star at all) and guesthouses. The range of prices is decent: a double room in posh locations like Riviera Sunrise Resort & SPA Alushta or “IvaMaria” costs about 8,300 rubles, and a room in a guest house remote from the beach (about half a kilometer to the sea) costs 1,000-1,300 rubles.
IvaMaria
Intermediate options like boarding houses or mini-hotels like Lesnoy will cost around 3,500 rubles per day. But it’s worth considering them at least because of the issue of food - most of these hotels can offer guests dishes from their own restaurant. In addition, many mediocre hotels in Alushta have their own swimming pools, where for the sake of variety you can splash around if you were unable to win a place on the municipal beach.
Hotel Lesnoy
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Cafes and restaurants
Alushta catering is moving towards progress by leaps and bounds, and this is noted by everyone who has visited the resort in the last couple of years. You can have a good time in “Aquarius”, where there is a children’s menu, “Library”, where wonderful avocado soups are prepared, and “Meeting”, where media personalities coming to Alushta are celebrated.
Crimean cheeses at the Vodoley restaurant
Restaurant "Library"
Entrance to the Vstrecha restaurant
Red mullet at the "Mullet Bar"
Budget canteens in the “Greetings from the USSR” style also do not suffer from a lack of visitors. True, when choosing a meal in such a place, you will have to play the lottery - not all set meals are equally joyfully accepted by the digestive system. Those who want to treat themselves to Black Sea fish should take a walk to “Barabulya Bar” - an original fast food cafe, where, along with burgers, you will be served a bucket of fried breaded horse mackerel, crayfish or freshly caught shrimp. If you want to not only sit peacefully, but also admire the sea views, come to the city embankment, where cafes are equipped with summer verandas, such as “Santa Cruz”.
Shopping
Market in Alushta
There are no large shopping centers in Alushta - it is better to look for them in Simferopol. At the resort, markets, kiosks and small private shops are still trendy. As for authentic Crimean souvenirs, here they are the same as those found along the coast as a whole - shell small things, juniper crafts, herbal teas and essential oils produced by the Alushta State Farm Factory, as well as cosmetics from the Crimean Rose brand.
Among the delicious holiday gifts, we can recommend mountain lavender honey, but buying it is a whole quest, since the sweetness at the resort is counterfeited by everyone who is not too lazy. It’s good if you have your own person among the locals who will help identify a surrogate and suggest honest sellers. The bravest ones can take a risk and buy homemade bottled wine, which is sold at the market during the season. Well, for tourists for whom caution is paramount, it is better to grab a few bottles from the company store. Yalta onions, Turkish delight, dried fruits, cheeses - we look for them at the city market and in small grocery stores.
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Transport
City public transport in Alushta includes trolleybuses (urban and suburban) and minibuses. The most popular route in both cases is No. 2, going to the beaches of Professor’s Corner. Suburban minibus No. 12 departs in the same direction. For those who are in a hurry to have a tasting at the winery, we can recommend minibuses No. 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10. To the beaches of Satery and Semidvorye there are routes No. 111 and 113. However, you can get off you will have to take the turn leading to the villages, and do the rest of the way to the sea on foot. The fare for the Alushta trolleybus is 14 rubles, for the minibus – 25 rubles.
Renting a bicycle so as not to depend on public transport is also possible. Bike rentals can be found on the street. Gorky (“Velo-Alushta”), as well as on the street. Lenin (bike shop "Adrenaline"). Some guest houses also provide this service, but their bike park is not so diverse. By the way, neither the rental offices nor private individuals provide insurance for the vehicle to the renter, so if the bicycle breaks down, you will have to pay for the damage. But the deposit for a two-wheeled friend can be different: in some places they require a passport, in others - money (the amounts are different at each point).
Trolleybus to Alushta
Parking in Alushta
The most “pretty” way to get around Alushta is by taxi. Tariffs of different carriers may vary, but in general the following trend emerges: the first 5 km of travel within the city - 180 rubles, each subsequent kilometer - 25 rubles. If you are planning an excursion to the mountains, a double tariff will apply - 50 rubles / km. For those planning to drive along the Crimean serpentines on their own, we can recommend renting a car. True, you will have to do this upon arrival in Simferopol - there are no rental points at the resort. Although, if the financial issue is not pressing, you can rent a vehicle with “door delivery”. In this case, the services of the driver who delivered the car from Simferopol to Alushta will have to be paid additionally.
How to get there
Alushta bus station
There are two ways to get to Alushta without transfers - by bus and your own car. The first option is usually seasonal: direct flights Moscow - Alushta depart from the capital's Yuzhnye Vorota station and Krasnogvardeyskaya station. Ticket price – from 2500 rubles. In addition, there are several additional flights with transfers in Kerch and Temryuk. Motorists will have to route through Krasnodar, then across the Crimean Bridge to Kerch, Feodosia, Simferopol and, finally, to Alushta.
Alushta does not have air or rail connections with the “mainland”, but Simferopol does. So buy a plane and train ticket from Moscow to Simferopol and go on your trip in peace. You can cover the remaining part of the route between the cities by trolleybus No. 51, departing in the Alushta direction from the Simferopol Central railway station. If you didn’t have time for this route, take the 52nd trolleybus to Yalta - it also goes through Alushta. The ticket price in both cases is 115 rubles. Well, those who are already vacationing in the resort capital of the South Coast, but want to enjoy the beauty of the neighboring resort, will be helped out by the Yalta-Alushta trolleybuses. The asking price is only 70 rubles.
As faster alternatives to the trolleybus, it is recommended to consider minibuses and taxis, of which there are plenty at the Simferopol Central Station. You can rush in the direction of Alushta by buses departing from the Kurortnaya bus station (fare from 187 rubles), as well as from Simferopol airport (ticket price – 362 rubles).
