Alushta is a beautiful city on the shore of the Black Sea, which is as clear as a clean tear. Why do we go to the sea? Of course, to bask in the sun, swim in the salty water and stroll along the seafront.
The seafront of Alushta is a place of attraction for all locals and guests of the city. A real vacation in Alushta begins here.
The embankment of the city has the greatest length on the entire Crimean peninsula and is rightly considered one of the most beautiful. Also very interesting is its history. To the construction of a merchant — millionaire Nikolai Dmitrievich Stakheev, a famous patron of the arts. It was he who illuminated the «Stakheev» part of the embankment with electric lamps and put benches for rest. At the same time, the entrance to the embankment always remained accessible to absolutely everyone.
Many kilometers of beautiful Alushta embankment, surrounded on the one hand by the sea, and on the other by numerous parks, as if created for long leisurely walks. More and more new cafes and restaurants with ornate summer platforms appear on the way. Many unpretentious plants live well on the stony slopes. Where there is at least a handful of land, Crimean pines, Spanish Drosera and other plants grow. They not only please the eye and smell pleasantly, but also strengthen the mountain slopes.
If you are completely exhausted walking along the embankment, a trained driver of a cycle rickshaw can take you away with your whole family. This hybrid of bicycle and carriage will help you simply admire your surroundings while relaxing on a cushioned seat.
Many restaurants and cafes have the same name — Aluston. This is the ancient name of Alushta, the Tatar name of the city. At every step of the embankment appear, as if from under the ground tent markets. Sometimes the services offered in the tents are extremely unusual. Souvenirs for every taste and purse, for guys and girls, massage bed, «disposable» cell phones — this is not the whole list of what you can buy for money.
Some alleys take us away from the sea towards the mountains, others on the contrary beckon us to lie on the beach. A lot of small pavilions offering the whole range of wines of Crimea open their doors towards the clients. Modest-looking food markets will offer you the freshest of everything: just plucked from a bed or from a branch.
And soon from Alushta they plan to make a resort for VIP-class recreation, and the embankment will be improved no worse than in the best cities of old Europe. The director of one of the firms promised that Alushta will soon be compared with such pearls by the sea as Cannes and Nice. What is not a reason to look into the still «old» Alushta?