Vorontsov Palace, Crimea.
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  • Photo title: Vorontsov Palace, Crimea.
  • Author: Amigo3070
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  • Vorontsov Palace is located in Alupka (Crimea) at the foot of Mount Ai-Petri. Built of diabase, which was mined nearby. Currently, the palace is a museum. When Vorontsov Palace is a park - a monument of landscape art. From December 1824 to April 1851 Vorontsov Park in Alupka create a talented German botanist, gardener, head gardener of the Southern coast of Crimea - Carl Antonovich Kebahom. Vorontsov Palace was built on the new (compared with classicism) architectural and construction principles. An important architectural feature was the location of the palace respectively relief mountains, making the palace very blend in with the surrounding landscape and found his original artistic and expressive image. The palace was built in the spirit of English architecture, and there are elements in the building of different eras, from the early forms and ending XVI century. English style combine with Moorish Revival architecture. For example, the Gothic chimneys resemble the minarets of mosques. The south entrance is decorated with oriental splendor. Horseshoe arch, two-story arch, carved plaster in a niche where interwoven pattern of Tudor flower and lotus motif.
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