Interesting places: Alupka

The Vorontsov Palace in the city of Alupka on the Crimean Peninsula is a majestic building rising at the foot of Mount Ai-Petri. Its construction was completed in 1848 and was ordered by Count Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov as a summer residence. The palace was built from diabase, which was mined nearby, which gave it special monumentality and stren

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