Livadia is a resort town 3 km west of Yalta, located on the slope of Mount Mogabi. The village is famous for its white-stone palace with a park that previously belonged to the royal family, and clean, well-equipped beaches. Suitable for those who prefer a relaxing holiday surrounded by subtropical nature and classical architecture.
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Population: 1,074 people
Phone code: 380-654
Total area: 1.61 km²
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History - how Livadia became infected
The history of the village is long and eventful; it can be divided into 6 main stages.
- Ancient settlements (III-I thousand years BC).
- Medieval castles (VIII-XV centuries). Evidence of this era are the remains of a large pottery production and the ruins of castle walls, which can be seen in Oreanda.
- The settlement of the Greeks Ai-Yan (St. John) in the 18th century.
- After Russia's victory in the Crimean War, Greek settlers were moved to the Sea of Azov region, and their lands were distributed to the Greeks who served in the Balaklava battalion. The best plots were bought by Colonel Reveliotis, who in 1934 sold them to the Polish Count Potocki. The count built an estate here, planted a vineyard on 20 hectares and founded a wine production. On 44 hectares, under the leadership of gardener Delinger, a landscape park was created with valuable trees, statues and fountains, an orchard and a greenhouse. A water supply system was installed from the mountain springs above.
- In 1860, Emperor Alexander II bought Potocki's estate. Since then, Livadia has become a permanent vacation spot for Russian emperors, and the entire Yalta coast has turned into an aristocratic resort. Pototsky's house was rebuilt into a palace, the Small Palace, houses for courtiers, servants and workers were built. The water supply system was updated, a dairy farm was built, the area of the gardens was increased, new greenhouses and greenhouses were built, and a vegetable garden was created. Under Nicholas II, the Grand Palace was rebuilt, the Page (Svitsky) building, a power plant, a winter theater, and an ice factory were erected.
- During the civil war, Livadia was occupied by German troops, who plundered the property of the palaces. In 1920, the royal estate was nationalized, and a state farm for wine production was created on its territory. In 1925, the first sanatorium for peasants with 300 beds was opened here, then new buildings with 1,600 beds were built. During the war, when the village was under German occupation, all the sanatoriums and almost the entire palace complex were destroyed. Only the Grand Palace has survived, where the Yalta Conference took place in February 1945. After the war, the sanatoriums were rebuilt.
Village infrastructure
The village is conveniently located on the Yalta - Sevastopol highway, with shuttle buses passing through it. A little over 1000 people live here permanently. There is a kindergarten, a school, and a boarding school. The resort is part of Greater Yalta. The city hospital is located in the vicinity of Livadia. There is a post office, telegraph, telephone office, bank, shops, bars, restaurants.
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Climate - temperature regime of water and air
The mountains protect the resort from cold northern winds, and the sea softens the frosts. It has a Mediterranean climate with humid, warm winters and dry, hot summers.
Note:
The average annual temperature is 13°C.
Average January temperature 4.4°C
The number of frosty days throughout the winter is no more than 10
The sea is available for swimming from May to October. Thanks to the warm climate, something blooms here all year round.
Interesting places - attractions
The village is interesting for its palace and park complex.
Livadia Palace - erected in 1911 from white Inkerman stone in the Renaissance style, which is emphasized by internal courtyards - Italian with a marble fountain and Arabic, designed as a light well.
Livadia Park is a huge landscape park, occupying about 50 hectares, with elements of a regular style. In addition to local vegetation - pines, oak, beech, dogwood, yew, juniper - it also contains exotic plants: sequoia, Himalayan and Lebanese cedars, rare species of pine, magnolia, cypress, fan palm, wisteria.
The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross is the home church of the Russian emperors, built by the architect Monighetti in the Byzantine style with elements inherent in Georgian churches.
The Tsar's (sunny, horizontal) trail was laid back in 1861 in such a way that it does not contain sharp ascents and descents. The 6,711 m long road starts near the palace, passes through the rotunda pavilion with white columns in Oreanda, from which you can admire the panoramic view of the coast, and reaches Gaspra. This trail is ideal for walking for pulmonary patients, since the air in these places combines the smells of the sea, pine trees and other medicinal plants growing on the mountain slopes. A mixture of natural aromas cleanses the lungs and restores the functions of the respiratory system.
Organ Hall - in the building of the former royal power plant there is a center for organ music with the largest organ in the country with more than 4,600 pipes. Every year the international festival Livadia Fest is held here.
Wine tourism - the Livadia state farm-factory, created on the basis of Golitsyn wineries, is part of the Massandra association. You can taste the best wines of Crimea in the Italian courtyard of the Livadia Palace.
Dolmens - on Mount Ai-Nikola there is an ancient Taurus burial ground with 20 stone boxes without lids dug into the ground.
Livadia beaches - review
Most of the beaches are narrow pebble, separated by breakwaters, many belong to sanatoriums. The water is clean. The depth of the bottom increases sharply, so it is not very comfortable or safe to relax here with babies. Since the height of the village above sea level is 141 m, the descent to the beaches is quite long (15-20 minutes) and steep. But you can use paid sanatorium elevators.
Dolphin Beach is a medium-pebble beach 250 m long with free entry, free Wi-Fi and changing rooms. On the beach there are paid areas for increased comfort, toilets, showers, rental of umbrellas and sun loungers.
Livadia Beach is a free, small-pebble beach with a gentle entrance to the water. You can go down to it along a path from the park or by a paid elevator. On the beach there are sunbeds, awnings, changing rooms, a first-aid post, a cafe, and a boat station.
How to look for housing - accommodation features
Here you can find accommodation of different levels of comfort and prices: relax and receive treatment in the Livadia or Chernomorye sanatoriums, stay in hotels or in the private sector. Prices are similar to those in Yalta and even a little higher.
How to get to the village?
The starting point of most tourists coming to Crimea is the city of Simferopol. You can get to Livadia only with a transfer in Yalta, which is reached by regular bus and trolleybus No. 55 from the Simferopol railway station. At the Yalta bus station you need to change to minibus No. 11, 100, 102, 107 and get off in Livadia. Minibus number 11 stops closest to the palace.
To get here by car or bicycle, you need to overcome 88 km of the picturesque route Simferopol - Yalta - Sevastopol.
Livadia on the map of Crimea
GPS Coordinates: 44°28’31″N 34°08’35″E Latitude/Longitude
Amazing and interesting Crimean land! In Crimea, each village has its own climate, and the weather changes every hour. Because, despite the small size of the peninsula, there are mountains and steppes, beaches and cliffs. Crimea has long been famous for its historical sights: rock-cut temples and monasteries, Taurus burial grounds, ancient and cave cities, Scythian mounds. One of the great rest stops on your way can be Livadia hotels.
In the valley of two mountain rivers, on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, lies the popular resort of Yalta. The city on land is surrounded by a semi-ring of mountains reaching 1437 meters. The unique climate of the Greater Yalta region has attracted people here for many centuries. And since then, numerous monuments and attractions of Yalta have been preserved.
Livadia Palace is the summer residence of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, the last in the history of Russia, in the town of Livadia. For many, it is unthinkable without visiting this iconic landmark of the peninsula. This beautiful monument of architectural art begins its history in 1834, when Pole Lev Potocki bought Livadia. And a palace is being erected according to the design of K. I. Eshliman, and around the gardener Delinger is laying out a park on 40 acres of land.
Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II, acquired the estate in 1860. The palace and vineyards are being rebuilt right away. Also, for the heir and future Emperor Alexander III, a Small Palace was built according to the design of I. L. Monighetti, which in every way resembles the one in Bakhchisarai.
In 1891, Tsar Nicholas II received all this as a summer “dacha”. The two old palaces no longer met the needs of the royal family, and in 1904 it was decided to demolish and build a new palace. N.P. Krasnov developed the design of the palace, and its construction began in 1910. The building is being built quickly and on a grand scale: 2,500 workers worked for 17 months around the clock, and the walls are made of white Inkerman stone. The interior decoration was made in Moscow and many other art centers of the country according to Krasnov’s sketches. And by 1911, the new Grand Palace was already proudly rising, at the same time with which the Forentine courtyard, the retinue building, the palace church, and the palace of the minister of the court were built. The entire palace complex is successfully integrated into the surrounding landscape: the sides are most open to the sun.
- 1925 - becomes a Soviet sanatorium;
- 1931 - climatic treatment plant;
- 1945 - the Crimean Conference of the heads of three coalition governments was held;
- 1953 - again a trade union sanatorium;
- 1974 - becomes a museum with memorial and art departments.
Near Livadia in the village of Oreanda you can see the church architecture presented
565Only three kilometers separate the village. Livadia from Yalta, and if not for the signs, Livadia could be considered a continuation of the Primorsky Park. No one will say for sure where this name came from, but there are suggestions that previously the slopes of Mount Mogabi, where Livadia is located, were covered with large forest lawns, which in Greek sounds like “livadion”.
The amazingly beautiful area was inhabited by people of the Copper Age, and then by the Taurians. Many peoples inhabited this land later, but after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the city of Livadia, like Yalta, was inhabited by Russians, and by the middle of the 19th century there were already 30 households here.
Almost all the lands on the South Bank were purchased by noble Russian families, and the village of Livadia was chosen by the imperial family. The Livadia Palace and numerous economic services were erected in a very short time, and the huge park that was laid out around was replete with exotic plants brought from abroad.
Now Livadia is famous not only in Crimea, but also beyond its borders: firstly, as the summer residence of the last Russian emperor; secondly, as a place where the fate of post-war Europe was decided; thirdly, as a luxury resort suitable for relaxation and wellness.
Holidays in Livadia will be just as wonderful as in neighboring Yalta: it is the seashore, there is a forest nearby, and there is always a lot of sun on the mountainside where the village is located. But the main thing is that the mountains and the sea create a unique climate: the warm sea warms the land in winter, and cools it with a fresh breeze in summer, and the mountains shelter the village from cold winds.
You can swim in Livadia from the end of May until mid-October, and even in the coldest February the air temperature here does not drop below +4 degrees. The park and the neighboring coniferous forest fill the air with beneficial phytoncides, walks by the sea provide the opportunity to breathe air rich in iodine and bromine ions, all this, together with the seclusion of the village, made the holiday in Livadia truly quiet and serene.
Infrastructure of Livadia
Livadia in Crimea developed as a resort back in tsarist times, and now many sanatoriums, hotels and boarding houses are concentrated here. The resort infrastructure of Livadia, like the entire southern coast of Crimea, is rich in shops and markets, restaurants and bars, pharmacies, beaches with water equipment rentals and sports facilities, where you can always rent bicycles or scooters to travel around the area.
Beach holidays in Livadia are somewhat different from those in Yalta, but for the better. Due to the small number of vacationers, the water near the shore is always clean, and the beaches are not crowded and well-groomed: umbrellas and sun loungers, mattresses and circles for children, changing cabins and toilets, showers and lifeguard posts - everything is in order. When you get tired and hungry after swimming, you don’t have to rush to the sanatorium dining room, because right on the beach, in a cozy cafe, you can have lunch or just a snack. In addition, there is a wonderful market where you can buy fruit, and local wines are presented in Livadia and Crimea in branded stores.
Local Attractions
The southern coast of Crimea is rich in attractions, but in Livadia they are world-class:
- Tsarsky− summer residence of the imperial family. The Yalta Conference was held in this palace, where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met.
- Palace Park famous for the number of plants, 325 species, and beautiful landscape compositions.
- The Tsar's or Sun's Path- a path laid out for walks of the royal family, now a famous health path.
- Organ Hall, built over a hundred years ago.
How to get to Livadia
Getting to Livadia is as easy as shelling pears: from almost any Crimean city there are buses and minibuses going to Yalta. And from the Yalta bus station, bus No. 5 will take you to Livadia in 15 minutes.
The white beauty of stone, the Romanovs and the echo of previous eras.
The Livadia Palace (or rather, the Grand Palace of the Livadia Palace and Park Ensemble) is located in Crimea, on the Black Sea coast in the village of Livadia near Yalta. Built at the end of the 19th century in the Italian Renaissance style and surrounded by an amazingly beautiful terraced park, the palace originally served the Russian imperial family as a southern residence. After the revolution, a sanatorium was opened here, which closed with the advent of World War II. It was here that the famous Yalta Allied Conference was held in 1945 with the participation of Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. After the war, the palace again became a medical and preventive institution and received vacationers until 1974, when a museum was opened on its base, which is still in operation today.
The history of the Livadia palace and park ensemble began back in 1834, when Count Lev Pototsky bought Livadia and built a manor house here and laid the foundation for a landscape park. Almost 30 years later, the estate became the summer residence of Emperor Alexander II and his family, as a result of which the manor house was expanded, turning into the Grand Palace, and the Livadia ensemble was supplemented with several buildings, including the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross. In 1910, the original Grand Palace was dismantled, and in its place, according to the design of the architect N.P. Krasnov, the current building appeared a year later, retaining the name of its predecessor. This palace was the last building erected in the Russian Empire for the Romanov family.
Inside, the palace carefully preserves the memory of two bygone eras: the time of decline of the Russian Empire and the period of the Yalta Conference. And if the guides talk about the second professionally, then they talk about the first with true love in their hearts and sadness in their voices. Never before have I met museum staff so in love with those to whom this museum is dedicated. They especially talk about the Romanovs here, and after visiting you want to believe more than ever that the royal family was exactly as they described it.
In the numerous rooms of the palace there are many miraculously preserved objects and elements that create a unique atmosphere. At some point you forget that you are in a museum, and it seems that a window into the past has opened, allowing you to see your former life as it is. It seems that the inhabitants of these rich, tastefully furnished rooms have simply gone out to dine, and one must hurry to have time to see everything before they return. And what views open from almost every window! It is not surprising that American President Roosevelt was so fascinated by Livadia that he mentioned his desire to live here after the expiration of his presidential term.
One of the bright corners of the palace is the Arabian courtyard with its fountain and ceramic tiles with oriental patterns on the walls. But the heart of the palace is considered to be the no less picturesque Italian courtyard with roses and evergreens planted in it. If you look closely, you can easily recognize this “actor” in films such as “Dog in the Manger”, “Pious Martha”, “Return of the Resident” and others, and the palace and park itself are easily recognizable in “The Prisoner of the Chateau d'If”, " We met somewhere", "Several Love Stories" and even one Jackie Chan film :)
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