Here steep mountains, expanse of the sea, deep gorges, shady woods, prompt mountain streams and falls. On Southern побереже it is possible to find the corners reminding the nature of many countries of the world – Italy and Spain, Australia and Greece.
The narrow strip of the earth filled in with the sun at the warm sea from Cape Ajja to Alushty is and there is a Southern coast of Crimea. It is extensive enough territory in the extent about 70 kilometres of the most fertile shore from Gurzuf located at bottom of mountain Aju-Dag, to cape Laspi. And almost in the centre of this strip, on the bank of an open deep-water bay the city the Big Yalta was stretched on picturesque slopes of mountains.
The southern coast of Crimea has received popularity as a resort zone from the XIX-th century middle. Thanks to popularity at aristocracy of the Russian empire in the end of XIX the beginning of the XX-th centuries intensive building of summer palaces and country houses from which Livadijsky, Massandrovsky, Vorontsovsky, Jusupovsky palaces and Djulber are most known here was conducted.
Of it have sung Pushkin, Mickiewicz, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Vjazemsky, A.Tolstoj, Nekrasov, Lesja the Ukrainian, Bunin, Bryusov, Mayakovsky.
About it wrote Chekhov, Bitter, Kuprin, Serafimovich, Sergeys-Tsensky. Unforgettable pictures south coasts in Ayvazovsky, Korovin, F.Vasileva’s pictures.
