Huge Alupka Park is located around the Vorontsov Palace. The park was founded in 1831. Highway that connects with Simferopol to Yalta, divides it into two parks - upper and lower. beauty enchants the Park and the possible long wander through its winding paths, admiring the magnificent trees, shady groves, quaint heaps of diabase boulders, spectacular views opening up to the palace, sea, mountain range Ai-Petri. Alupkinskiy park covers an area about 40 hectares and it has successfully combined features the largest landscaped parks in Europe and the purely local features, due to unique topography Alupka, gives the whole palace and park ensemble of a special stamp of uniqueness. In Alupka Park successfully acclimatized plants of North and South America, Mediterranean, South East Asia. Currently there are about 200 species, among them magnolia, coral tree, Indian lilac, viburnum evergreen, redwood, yucca, palm trees, sycamores and others, who, along with local species of trees (oak, fluffy, juniper, strawberry tree) were original compositions Park. On the northern outskirts of Upper Park overlooks the Great chaos - a giant cascade of boulders, which is almost devoid of greenery, only its top crowned with a grove of Italian and Aleppo pines. Between large and small messes are three artificial pond with outlines of mountain lakes. In the center of the largest Swan Lake overlooks a pyramidal rock from which strikes a fine spray of water in all ponds, live black and white swans, golden duck. Lower Park Planners divided into two parts - pridvortsovuyu starting at walls of the southern facade of the palace and style reminiscent of "Italian Gardens of the XVI century England, and seaside. Southern tip of Alupka park - it's shore. Romantic beauty Alupka Park attracts many artists - here he worked Italian artist Carlo Bossoli who created a series of beautiful watercolors depicting the palace and its surroundings, several studies have written II Levitan, VI Surikov AIKuindzhi.
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