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Vorontsov Palace (Ukrainian: Воронцовський палац, Russian: Воронцовский дворец) is a palace built in the first half of the 19th century in Alupka. The palace of Prince Vorontsov, together with a large park, was built from 1828 to 1848 by the architect Edward Blore, known for the expansion of Buckingham Palace. The palace was built in an eclectic style, mainly using neo-Gothic elements on the northern façade and architecture modeled on Indian and Moorish architecture on the southern façade[3]. Local diabase was used in the construction. The complex is considered one of the main tourist attractions of Crimea. The palace park was designed and supervised by the German gardener Karl Kebach. After the October Revolution and the final fall of the Whites' rule, the palace was nationalized. During the Yalta Conference, the palace in Alupka was the seat of the British delegation, led by Churchill. The impressive appearance of the palace meant that in 1985 the team making the film The Travels of Mr. Kleks chose it as a filming object, which "played" the palace of King Apollinaris Bai, the ruler of the fictional film land - Bajdocja. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%82ac_Woroncowa_w_A%C5%82upce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUKrzDuVYc&pp=ygUZUGHFgmFjIGtzacSZY2lhIFdvcm9uY293YQ%3D%3D

There is a fee to enter the castle (around 300 UAH, August 2023) but it is worth it, especially if you are interested in the history of this fortress from its beginnings to the present day. Excavations and renovations are still taking place, so there is something new to see with each new visit.

Beautiful, ancient city carved into the rocks. Paid entrance.

Can be accessed with a bike

You can go with a bike

The Alupka Palace and Park Museum-Reserve, also known as the Vorontsov Palace, was created in the first half of the 19th century in Alupka, at the foot of Mount Ai-Petri. The first owner of the luxurious palace was Count Mikhail Vorontsov. The building began to be erected in 1830, but completed after 18 years. The palace was built in the Neo-Gothic style, the northern facade of the central building and the western part of the palace are made in the Tudor style. The southern façade is crowned by the Lion Terrace, a monumental staircase with three pairs of white marble lions.

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00, seven days a week.

Krzemieniec Castle - ruins of a castle from the 13th-14th centuries, rebuilt in the 16th century, located in Krzemieniec. In the 12th century, a wooden stronghold of the Ruthenian dukes was erected here, the wooden fortifications of which were replaced with brick ones in the 13th-14th centuries. The castle was fortified so strongly that in 1226 it could not be conquered by King Andrzej Węgierski, and in 1241 by the Tatars [1]. In 1321, Krzemieniec and Łuck came under the rule of Lithuania, and later of Poland, as the seat of the castle starosty in the Volyn voivodeship. In the years 1409-1418 his cousin Świdrygiełło was imprisoned here by prince Witold for allying during the Great War with the Teutonic Knights against Jagiello and Witold. The imprisonment was not difficult and the fugitive of the Teutonic Knights, Konrad of Falkenberg, who managed the castle, allowed Świdrygielle to receive guests, among whom the dukes Daszko Ostrogski and Aleksander Nos decided to help Świdrygielle escape. They sent two men who were part of the castle crew and on the night of March 24, 1418 they opened the gates of the castle, into which 500 people of Prince Ostrogski broke. The entire crew was murdered, including Konrad of Falkenberg, who defended himself with a sword in his hand. In 1536, Queen Bona received the Krzemieniec starosty from her husband, Sigismund the Old, and on her initiative, the castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance one and the fortifications were strengthened. Later, the castle belonged to successive Polish kings. In October 1648, after a 6-week siege, Cossack colonel Maksym Krzywonos captured the castle and demolished it. The unrebuilt castle fell into ruin that remains to this day. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamek_w_Krzemie%C5%84cu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2d3U3La1Us