Chaliapin Grotto, twin rocks and Red Stone: the main attractions of Gurzuf. White rocks of Adalara

Gurzuf is a small resort village located in one of the most scenic spots Crimea - on the southern coast. This place is famous for its magnificent climate, Mediterranean vegetation, salubrious air and breathtaking landscapes. Many tourists consider Gurzuf the most the best place for recreation in the Crimea and not in vain - on all sides it is surrounded by natural attractions.

Despite its relatively small size, the town has everything you need for a complete vacation. These are beaches (one of the best on the peninsula), night bars, restaurants, promenade, active entertainment and a huge number of opportunities for ecotourism. Gurzuf is the choice of travelers who prefer a quiet, but not boring vacation.

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What to see and where to go in Gurzuf?

The most interesting and beautiful places for walking. Photos and a short description.

The summit is also known as Bear Mountain. It is located on the border of Big Yalta and Big Alushta. It reaches a height of 571 meters and is part of the massif of the same name, elongated in a northwestern direction for 2.5 km. From a geological point of view, Ayu-Dag is an unformed volcano (lacollite), which has not been able to grow for 150 million years. To date, the mountain is included in the protected area.

Equipped area adjacent to the beach and adapted for walking. It is lined with white and pink marble tiles, which are shampooed to a shine. The place acquires a special charm in the evening, when the lanterns are lit from the open terraces. summer cafes music sounds. Along the flowering alleys, among the quaint sculptures, there are always many tourists who make the obligatory vacation promenade.

Beaches occupy the entire coastline of Gurzuf, stretching far beyond its borders. Given the rocky terrain, it is impossible to walk along the coast, some can only be reached by boat. All more or less suitable places for swimming are covered with pebbles, stones or boulders - broken off pieces of rocks. It should be borne in mind that there are paid and free beaches in Gurzuf.

Currently international child Center, in the Soviet period - a pioneer camp known throughout the Union, where, perhaps, every child dreamed of getting. Its history began in 1925 with a summer camp for children with tuberculosis. Museums located in the center historical objects and natural attractions, as well as parks and memorials.

The palace was erected at the beginning of the 20th century as part of the development of Gurzuf as seaside resort. At the origins of its creation was the engineer V.I. Berezin and his wife, who did a lot to turn this area into an attractive place for summer holiday territory. Suuk-su is a white, three-story renaissance-style mansion. It is surrounded by a picturesque park. Today the palace is located within the "Artek".

Orthodox church 2007 - the heir to the cathedral that was dismantled in 1935. For a long time, a military sanatorium was located in its place. The building was built in a mixed Russian-Byzantine style with forms characteristic of this style, but without superfluous external decoration, which gives it a special, austere beauty. The temple is surrounded by acacias and cypresses, decorating the surrounding landscape with its appearance.

The exposition dedicated to the great poet is located in historical building XIX century, which is often compared to a castle in the air because of the elegance of forms. The museum opened in 1938 and reopened its doors in 1987 after a long period of neglect. The collection is dedicated to the trip (or rather, exile) of A. S. Pushkin to the Crimea in the 1820s. Here the writer found types for many of his works.

A.P. Chekhov moved to Yalta in 1899, but soon regretted it, as he suffered from excessive attention from a curious public. To hide from human eyes, he bought a house in Gurzuf with a plot of picturesque coastline in a small bay. In 1963, the dacha became the property of the Union of Artists of the USSR. The museum on its territory was opened in 1995 as a branch of the Yalta house-museum of A.P. Chekhov.

Picturesque landscape park, founded at the beginning of the 19th century at the behest of the French aristocrat Richelieu, who was in the service of Russian Empire. More than 100 species of ornamental plants grow on 12 hectares - both native and imported flowers, shrubs and trees. Sculptures and fountains are scattered among the greenery and alleys. There are two resorts in the park.

The sculptural group of the fountain is the decoration of the Gurzuf park. It is a copy of the work of a German architect, which was accurately recreated by Russian masters according to a project bought at the World Exhibition in Vienna. The ensemble is made in the Baroque style, the composition is based on a plot from Greek mythology, in which the goddess of the night Nyukta, the gods Morpheus and Eros, as well as the Atlanteans and Caryatids are present.

The Rachel Fountain is another work of art created by an unknown author at the expense of the industrialist P.I. Gubonin in 1890 and adorned Gurzuf. The composition was created on the basis of a biblical story that tells about the love of Jacob and Rachel. The fountain is a figure of a girl with a jug on her head, crowning a high pedestal with a column. Around is a stone bowl-reservoir.

The Red Stone is a pink-yellow limestone rock formation believed to be geological monument. It reaches a height of 430 meters. Around the rock lie vineyards and wooded slopes of the surrounding mountains. According to archaeological evidence, in the Middle Ages, there was a watchpoint on the top. Currently, the Red Stone is a popular climbing site.

When Fyodor Chaliapin visited Gurzuf, he was so amazed by the beauty of these places that he even bought a piece of land along with a rock protruding into the sea. There he dreamed of building himself a "Castle of Arts". But the idea remained at the project stage, since the Revolution that broke out in 1917 destroyed all plans. The dream was not destined to come true, but in memory of her, the rock in Gurzuf was named after the singer.

Small rocky islands located about 250 meters from the coast of Gurzuf. In the distant past, these formations were part of the land, but gradually the sea washed away the bridge that connected them to the shore. Adalars are not only a symbol of Gurzuf - they are often associated with the entire southern coast of Crimea. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a restaurant on one of the cliffs.

The famous gazebo of the winds is located on the top of Mount Shagan-Kaya right on the edge of the cliff. The height above sea level in this place is about 1400 meters, from here you can see great view to the mountain ranges stretching below, the distant seashore and the endless expanse of water. On a clear day, from the gazebo you can see the adalars and the beaches of Gurzuf. The building was built in the middle of the 20th century in preparation for the visit of N. S. Khrushchev.

On the southern coast of Crimea, there are incredibly many amazing places created by the imagination of nature itself. Rocks of Adalara- not an exception. They are located near Gurzuf, directly opposite the famous Artek and Bear Mountain, and are two islands standing side by side, located in the middle of the sea at a distance of about 250 meters from the edge of the coast.

What is remarkable Adalary

Adalars are called twin rocks, although they are different in height, shape and diameter. No, from a distance they look alike, but the islets did not become twins for this reason. If you approach them from the sea at a certain distance, the rocks suddenly merge for a while and turn into one. Their complete connection lasts several minutes, and then the Adalars again diverge to the sides. The emergence of such a strange illusion is not entirely clear, because the distance between the rocks is almost 40 meters, and it seems that their contours cannot completely coincide. But they match.

The depth of the sea at the foot of the rocks reaches 38 meters. Once they were connected to the land by a high isthmus, and then it went under water, the islands separated from the coast, and now they rise surrounded sea ​​spaces like two fairytale castle. In summer, a huge number of divers go to them, exploring the bottom near the rocks. There you can find a lot of interesting things, because Adalar has not such a poor history.

Unusual history of Adalars in Gurzuf

Rocks of Adalara- one of the pearls of the Crimea, and, of course, like other pearls of the peninsula, they must have their own legend. It is with her that the history of these islands begins. A long time ago, there was a castle on Bear Mountain, where two princes lived. They were twin brothers raised by an old wizard. After the brothers grew up, he left the castle, leaving them gifts as a legacy. One of them was a rod, the other - the wings of a large bird. The rod gave its owner the opportunity to move apart the depths of the sea, wings - to soar in the blue skies. Gifts could not be used for evil in any way.

However, there are many temptations in the world. The brothers were inflamed with love for two sisters from another city, attacked him and captured the beauties. But the girls rejected their love and remained cold and impregnable. And then the princes decided to win their hearts not with nobility and prowess, but with the help of magic. First, one of the brothers put the girls on a horse, took the wings and rushed, it was up, but then the old wizard appeared and reminded that the gifts were not intended for such purposes. The prince had to go down to earth. The second brother became stubborn, did not heed the good advice of the educator, seated the girls in the chariot, waved his rod and rushed with them into the parted abyss. And then the wizard could not stand it and turned both disobedient into two rocks. Now they are called Adalars.

Such is the moralizing tale. Well, in reality, Gurzuf Adalary in ancient times, they were a parking lot for ships, which sometimes broke into smithereens on the rocks during a storm. At the bottom around the islands, divers still find fragments of ancient ships, fragments of medieval ceramics, and even ancient amphorae that miraculously survived. There are rumors that treasures from sunken ships remained at the foot of Adalar, but so far they have not been confirmed by anything.

At the very beginning of the twentieth century, on one of the islands, the local elite opened an exotic restaurant with seafood cuisine, which was caught right in the presence of the visitors who ordered them. The guests were taken to the restaurant by boat, but since there were many people who wanted to get into it, in the end it was decided to stretch to the Adalars from the Dzhenvez-Kaya rock cable car. They even cut a tunnel for her in Jenvez Kai, but then the first World War and the road never showed up. The very same wonderful institution lasted until 1927, and then was destroyed by an earthquake that happened in the Crimea. There is a suspicion that its interior rooms remained intact, but the entrance to them was blocked by a massive piece of rock.

Today the twin islands are protected monument nature, which was chosen by a huge number of birds. A variety of fish swim at the base of the moss-covered rocks, crabs and sea mollusks hide in their crevices. Near Adalary is the Gurzuf beach, from which you can swim by boat, boat or pedal boat to them in a matter of minutes.

Among all Crimean resort towns there is one where the great poet A.S. Pushkin spent the best (as evidenced by his correspondence with Galitsyn) days of his life. This is a village. Here he spent only a few weeks, but this was enough to find inspiration for writing part of the "Prisoner of the Caucasus" and several poems. And most importantly, it was in Gurzuf that Alexander Sergeevich had the idea to write one of his best works - “Eugene Onegin”. located on the territory in Big Yalta.

Geographical coordinates of the Pushkin Rocks on the map of Crimea GPS - N 44.5467 E 34.2962.

Opposite it are the famous. To reach the rock, you must first get to the Azure camp. The path leading to it, with all its appearance, makes it clear that this area is dedicated to the memory of A.S. Pushkin. In addition to his bust, there are sculptures of the heroes of Pushkin's fairy tales. This place is usually very popular with young tourists. At the end of the path, in fact, there is a rock, which was previously called Cape Java, and was later renamed Pushkinskaya. Its height is thirty-five meters, so in order to enter it, a ladder was specially installed here. Climbing up it observation deck, equipped on the top of a cliff, beautiful mountain and sea landscapes open before tourists. In the field of view falls, Adalary and the endless expanses of the sea.

On both sides Pushkin rocks there are two wild beach. There are always very few vacationers here, since you can get there only by overcoming many mountain ledges. Even in the rock of Pushkin, two natural grottoes were formed. One of them is also named after A.S. Pushkin, and the second is called Emerald. You can get into them either from the sea or on foot from the beach of the "Azure" camp. Having chosen the last option, you will have to dive into water up to your waist. But if you swim there, you can rest on the rocks in the very depths of the Pushkin Grotto. In addition, boats can swim here - the grotto is quite large.

The Pushkin Grotto is also interesting because famous Soviet films were shot inside it, such as Amphibian Man, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pirates of the ⅩⅩ century and other films.

Having studied Pushkin's rock, you can go to the neighboring one - which is also a Gurzuf landmark and has its own interesting history.

The village of Gurzuf, which closes Big Yalta from the east, boasts several natural attractions that have long attracted the attention of the resting public. Among them, one of the symbols of not only the town, but the entire Crimea, as well as the handsome Adalars, amazing rocky islands. Directly opposite the latter, there is also a noticeable remnant - the rock of Dzhenevez-Kaya, the 70-meter pyramid of which flaunts almost in every Gurzuf picture.

Where is the rock in Gurzuf?

The attraction is located at coastline resort village. Not far from it, a little to the north, the Assumption Church is found. Having passed along the coast to the southwest, you will come to.

Dzhenevez-Kaya on the map of Crimea

Rock that became a fortress

In the geological sense, the Jenevez-Kaya rock in Gurzuf is a limestone remnant, a piece Main Ridge, which in the old days, millions of years ago, broke away from mountain range and along the clay sedimentary "litter" began to slowly slide towards the sea. There are many such "traveling mountains" on the Crimean coast.

They gave her a name locals, Tatars, it means "Genoese rock". The thing is that by the arrival of the Tatar population here, on a high greasy ledge, there was a Genoese fortress called "Gurzuvits", which the Ottomans destroyed. Excavations have shown that the Italians were not the first owners of the fort, they only improved the Byzantine fortification built before them. There is also historical evidence that the Byzantines erected a bastion here around the 6th century.

It is quite possible that some kind of fortification was here even before the Byzantine one! Most likely it was Greek. All this becomes clear if you visit the steep slopes of the Genevez-Kaya rock. From here opens great review to the nearby cozy bays and old roads leading through the passes to the north, through the mountains, to steppe regions. Whoever controlled education could block traffic along these paths.

Now the remains of the fortification are not at all impressive, they are of interest only to specialists, especially since a snow-white one has been erected in its place, successfully fitting into the natural relief.

Genevez-Kaya: description and interesting information

It has already been mentioned that the Genevez-Kaya rock is located literally opposite the famous ones. Once these remnants were connected to the shore by a narrow clay-stony isthmus, but it constantly decreased in size under the influence of sea ​​waves until it finally collapsed at the end of the century before last. By this time, they managed to build a small restaurant on them, which turned out to be cut off from the coast. The owner of the establishment, Praskovya Tikunova, decided to connect it with the remnant by a cable car, for which they began to cut a tunnel in the rocks.

But the First World War broke out, the project was abandoned, and now the tunnel with a diameter of two meters and a length of about 30 meters attracts only the attention of tourists. Passing through it, you can go to observation deck, from where you can see the heavily lying Ayu-Dag, beautiful in the west and the entire Gurzuf valley. At western slope splashing waters of a small but cozy bay, now bearing the name Chekhovskaya. An outstanding writer bought a small house on its banks. It happened in the last year of the XIX century, here he lived last years life.

And on the eastern slope there is also a place associated with an outstanding figure in Russian literature, this time Pushkin. It is known that he stayed for quite a long time, about three weeks, and went on a tour of the Genevez-Kaya rock. Then there were still preserved parts of the fortress walls, which the poet described in his travel notes. According to some reports, then he went down to the eastern outskirts and rested in the rotunda, which has been preserved to this day. However, now it is no longer possible to verify the authenticity of those events.

The shores of the bay are not extensive, but there are always a lot of vacationers, especially divers. They dive, fueled by rumors that a Genoese trading ship allegedly sank not far from the coast. But if you are not fond of scuba diving, you can just dive from the rocks of the bay. There is a beautiful, rocky bottom topography, and boulders covered with algae play in the sun, shimmering with turquoise hues.

How to get to the rock?

It is not difficult to get to Dzhenevez-Kaya from the center of Gurzuf, as the distance is about 700 m:

Note to the tourist

• Address: street, Leningradskaya, urban-type settlement Gurzuf, Big Yalta, Crimea, Russia.
• Coordinates: 44°32′33″N (44.542588), 34°17′2″E (34.283892).

The Jenevez-Kaya rock now belongs not to the territory of Gurzuf itself, but to the Cypress Camp, as a result, excursions here are often difficult. However, if there is a desire to see a unique monument of nature, then no obstacles can prevent you! See at the end short video about this attraction.