Great Alushta is one of the best resort centres in the Crimea. Alushta, its shaded silent parks, well-groomed pebble beaches, warm sea and abundance of fruit make us be fallen in love with it once and for all. Not less well it is possible to spend time in Partenit, Lazourny, Rybachye and other places of Great Alushta. Our portal will tell you about all local beautiful places and sights.

The resort is known worldwide for its fine, extremely healthy climate and salubrious air. It is quite dry and visitors quickly adapt for climate change. That’s why rest in Alushta is very comfortable climatically which is especially important for people with poor health.

Great Alushta is surrounded with mountains from three different sides. From the West — the highest part of the Crimean uplands — Babugan-jajla, from the north — mountain Chatyr-Dag, and from the east — mountain Demerdzhi. Thanks to it, there is a constant moving of air from peninsula plains to the sea and back. Sun abundance, fresh air, the warm sea and picturesque mountains — these are the important components doing Great Alushta a fine climatic resort.

Rest here suits everybody’s tastes — active youth, families with children, to people of different age and material well-being. Resort infrastructure develops actively: modern private hotels, magnificent boarding houses with their own parks and pools at the very seashore, hotels and comfortable apartments of a private sector appear. Alushta will be the first in Ukraine to give tourists free wireless Internet Wi-Fi along all the territory of its quay.

Picturesque mountains and valleys around Great Alushta are fine places for the pedestrian and horse walks, trips on mountain bicycles and motorcycles. Fans of water entertainments will be happy too. The aquapark, by the way the biggest at the Black Sea coast, will please visitors with attractions and water-steep-climbs. It is possible to put to sea on a yacht and to admire scenic vicinities, to be engaged in diving, to rise up on a hang-glider or under a parachute dome. Great Alushta is a fine place for various kinds of rest.

The city of Alushta together with its large territory, stretching from the Ayu-Dag Mountain in the West to the village of Privetnoye in the East make up a paradise on earth called Great Alushta. All the settlements – Partenit, Utyos, Solnechnogorskoe, Malorechenskoe, Rybachje, Privetnoe – are administratively subordinate to Alushta. The nature of the region is unique and not any worse compared to luxurious Yalta. Abundance of sun, fresh air, picturesque mountains – are important components of Alushta’s sea coast, though the most important one is definitely the sea. The swimming season here lasts from May till October. It should be noted, that the beaches of this region have fine pebbles (tiny stones), which is much better than the bigger ones (boulders) of Yalta. The storms in summer are rare and usually don’t last long.

In Alushta you can enjoy the feeling of wide open spaces and far-reaching views unusual for the Crimean coast. The massifs retreated 5-10 km further from the sea forming a kind of a semicircle opened towards the sea. Mighty and beautiful mountains frame the Alushta amphitheatre: to the West there is the Babugan massif, and to the North – the Chatyr-dag Mountain. On the background near the sea there is the Kastel mountain and the Au-Dag above it. In the Western part of the amphitheatre there is the Demerdzhi Mountain. Gentle slopes split by valleys and ravines, where resort villages are situated, go downwards to the sea. The cirque of Alushta is the largest and the most beautiful in the Crimea.

Alushta is situated on the coast of the Black Sea in the valleys of the rivers Ulu-Uzen and Demerdzhi surrounded by the amphitheatre of the Main ridge of the Crimean mountains. Rest in Alushta means abundance of resort hotels and spa institutions on the one hand and remarkable sights on the other. Alushta is situated 45 km away from Simferopol and 32 km away from Yalta, having bus and trolleybus connections with them.

There is a dock, as well as trolleybus and bus terminals in the city. The swimming season lasts from the middle of May till the middle of October, for children – from the end of June till the end of September (the temperature of sea water is about 20°С or above), which makes your holiday in Alushta during the autumn season absolutely unforgettable. Health-resort and cultural zones (stretching from the Au-Dag Mountain up to the village of Privetnoe – 80 km of the offshore coastal strip) includes 78 resort hotels and spa institutions. The most famous are: “Krim”, “Dubna”, “Zolotoj kolos”, “Slavutich”, “Utes”, “Alushta”.

Alushta also has 5 tourist bases, camps and about 20 privately owned hotels. Museums: the Historical and Regional Studies Museum, the Literary and Memorial Estate of S. Sergeyev-Tsensky, the Literary Museum of I. Shmelev, the Memorial Estate of an architect N.A. Beketov, the Museum of Natural History and the dendrological zoo of the Crimean Nature Reserve. There is a balneary here, which contains silver. The greatest historical monuments are: the Byzantine fortress Aluston (VI century), towers of the XIII-XV ctnturies etc. The city has monuments to A.S. Pushkin, M. Gorkiy, S. Sergeyev-Tsensky and others. The beautiful waterfall Dzhur-Dzhur is situated not far from the city (15 m).

The first written mention about Alushta is dated fom the VI century and was written by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea, who reported about the construction of the fortress Aluston.

Then the city was destroyed by the Mongols, restored and expanded by the Genoese, and again destroyed by the Turks. Stronghold was no longer revived, the stones were taken away to build houses, and the lower round tower (Ashagi-kul) - perhaps the only symbol of ancient Aluston was kept to the descendants.

During the next Russian-Turkish War (1768-1774 gg.) the Turks were dislodged from Alushta, in summer 1774 Russian garrison which was three times less than the enemy repulsed the attack of the enemies, landing from the sea and counting 7000. In the XIX century the church of All Saints and the Crimean Theodore Stratilatus was built here, it is still the main Orthodox holy city (1842, architects G. Torricelli, K. Eshliman).

In the 1870's large-scale wine farms were founded here, and in 1902 Alushta, received the status of the city, gradually turns into a climatic health resort.

In 1934 the largest tourist centre in the Crimea was founded in Alushta, sanatorium were built and even the colonnade on the sea-front, confirming that Alushta is a resort.

Nowadays the Great Alushta (subordinated to the city council area) streches along the Black Sea coast for tens of kilometers from Ajudag mountain to the valley of the river Uskut.

New boom of resort construction is experienced now in the city - instead of the major trade union and departmental health resorts of Soviet-era, small hostels, hotels and restaurants are erected in the accelerated tempo. There is a great number of museums in Alushta: Local History - Crimean Nature Reserve, memorial museums devoted to the Writers S. Sergeyev-Tsenskiy I. Shmelev and architect Beketov. You can get there by direct flight to Simferopol or through Kiev or Odessa.