Autumn-Winter in Alupka - a small village of Yukk, a quiet and serene time. Empty streets, deserted beach.
The only place where and not in the season is a lot of people - the Vorontsov Palace, which is located at the foot of the mountain ah-Petri. Palace, dark, with his gothic pipes, resembling knightly medieval castles, looks dark in winter days. Not in vain here once, in the distant 60s they filmed the film "Hamlet".
But the Vorontsov park is beautiful in any weather and at any time of the year.
Park is a masterpiece of garden-park art. Mountain peaks on one side and the Black Sea on the other.
The Relief Park itself is made like an amphitheater, it is divided into "lower" and "upper" parks. To view it all, perhaps, you need to spend the whole day.
The Nizhny Park is closer to the coast, from the rock of Aivazovsky (it is called the way, because it is here that the artist wrote many of his naval paintings) offers stunning views of the sea. In the lower park there are many fountains in Alupka) and the sculptures in Alupka) and the sculptures, there is a source "Tea House" and an unusual "lion terrace".
But personally, my most beloved places are in the upper park. This is a mirror lake, swan lake and sunny glade. It is always so calm here, as if in some silent fairy tale you get. You can sit on the benches, read, look at the swans. Two swans, graceful, huge, which were now seeded in different lakes, love to pose for photos.
Atmospheric photographs are obtained against the background of original natural structures - a waterfall Small chaos and a terrible heap of huge stone blocks called Big Chaos.
As in the palace, and in the park, you can order a tour, and probably so I would recommend to do, because if you look at yourself, then you can miss something, do not know, and even just get lost and the park and not much see.
Numerous benches with souvenirs, Crimean herbal tea, mountain honey, near the entrances to the park. You can buy and sets for postcards from the image of the park and palace, memorable booklets, calendars, artistically performed photos.