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Swallow's Nest
Sign in to savedecorative castle located between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula
Key facts
- Architectural style
- Gothic Revival
- Official name
- Палац “Ластівчине гніздо” ( Swallow's Nest Palace )
- Type
- Architecture
- Reference no
- 0100112
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Gaspra
- Official website
- замок-ласточкино-гнездо.рф
- Image
- Swallow's Nest (Crimea) 2007.JPG
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- WikiProject Ukraine
- Commons category
- Swallow's Nest (Crimea)
- date of official opening
- 1912-00-00
- native label
- Ластівчине гніздо
- inception
- 1912-00-00
- architectural style
- Gothic Revival
- architect
- Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood
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Encyclopedic overview
The Swallow's Nest (Russian: Ласточкино гнездо, romanized: Lastochkino gnezdo, Ukrainian: Ластівчине гніздо, romanized: Lastivchyne hnizdo) is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high (130 ft) Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots.
The castle overlooks the Cape of Ai-Todor on the Black Sea coast and is located near the remains of the Roman castrum of Charax. The Swallow's Nest is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Crimea, having become the symbol of Crimea's southern coastline.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swallow's Nest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.