Embankment (Yalta) - the visiting card of the resort

Naberezhnaya, Yalta, Crimea ... These three words have been associated with fun, rest and carefree walks for decades. Yalta embankment is not just a tourist site. This is a symbol of the city and the entire South Coast.

The embankment of Lenin (Yalta) and its history

The Lenin embankment is one of the oldest streets in the city. Today it is very difficult to imagine without palm trees, attractions and endless bars, cafes and elite restaurants.

The embankment (Yalta) is the center of the resort life of the entire Crimean South Coast. In the middle of the 19th century, it was interesting only to local fishermen. When Yalta began to gain popularity as a resort, it began to be actively landscaped. In particular, the sea was designed a wonderful promenade.

Yalta meanwhile began to develop rapidly. The local embankment was fortified and decorated with red granite and porphyrites. More and more often it was possible to meet aristocrats and famous cultural figures of the Russian Empire. The embankment was guarded by beautiful forged rails imitating the ship's side. The author of this project was engineer A. L. Berthier-Delagard.

In 1960, to protect against storms and sea waves, the Yalta embankment was strengthened with an additional step.

Yalta, embankment: photo and description

The total length of the embankment in Yalta is one kilometer. This is a favorite place for walking tourists and holidaymakers. Here are excellent photos, thanks to the beautiful design of the promenade and wonderful panoramas. Yesenin, Bunin, Nekrasov, Chekhov and Gorky were very fond of strolling along this Yalta street. Nowadays the best city restaurants are located here.

On one side of the embankment is the troubled sea, on the other - a green "wall" of palms and other subtropical plants.

Yalta embankment is often found in works of culture: in books, films, on canvases of paintings. Thus, the most striking examples are Anton Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog" and the film "Assa".

Sights of the Yalta quay

The embankment (Yalta) is a whole complex of tourist attractions. Among them are the following:

• Monument to V.I. To Lenin;
• Roffe's baths;
• Building of hotel "Tavrida";
• A beacon of the 19th century (it still works);
• The chapel of the New Martyrs;
• Concert hall "Jubilee"
• Platan Isadora Duncan and others.

On the buildings of the embankment there are many memorial plaques in honor of many famous personalities. Quite a bit here and interesting sculptural monuments. This, for example, the tube of Shirvindt, the portfolio of Zhvanetsky or the muse of Joseph Kobzon.

Roffe Baths

A lot of interesting sights can be offered to tourists by the city embankment. Yalta is not only the sea and mountains, the city has preserved dozens of architectural monuments.

Roffe's baths were part of the hotel complex "France", built in 1897 by the merchant A. Roffe. Recently, the chic building was restored. The main entrance to the pool is decorated with a chic marble portal in Moorish style. On the front of the building there is a phrase from the Koran: "Be blessed, like water."

In the baths of Yalta, the intelligentsia and the aristocracy loved to spend their free time. So, in local baths Chekhov and Bunin, Gorky and Shalyapin were not basking. It is interesting that in the Soviet years the most beautiful building was planned to be demolished. From the death of the bathhouse, Roffe saved ... Sofia Rotaru. It was she who spoke in defense of the monument and attracted public attention to the incident.

In the beginning of 2000 the building was completely restored. Today it can be visited at the address: Lenin Embankment, 31.

Monument to Lenin and the Isadora Platanus

The monument to the leader of the world proletariat, V. I. Ulyanov, looks very exotic, surrounded by palms and cedars. In addition, it is one of the most expensive monuments of Lenin in the world. The statue of bronze rises on a monolithic pedestal of red marble. The opening of this monument took place in 1954. The author of the project was the architect A. S. Fomin.

Platan Isadora Duncan is another famous landmark of the Yalta embankment. The age of this tree is solid - not less than 170 years. According to legend, it was under this plane tree that the poet Sergei Yesenin and the American dancer Isadora Duncan met . However, there is no confirmation of this fact, alas, no.