Alushta is a resort town in Crimea

Crimea

Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It is situated on the Black Sea

Black Sea

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 on the road from Gurzuf

Gurzuf

Gurzuf or Hurzuf is a resort in Crimea, Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea.Gurzuf is a former Crimean Tatar village, now a part of Greater Yalta. It was made famous by Alexander Pushkin who visited the place in 1821. The famous ballet master Marius Petipa died here...

 to Sudak

Sudak

Sudak or Sudaq is a small historic town located in Crimea, Ukraine situated to the west of Feodosiya and to the east of Simferopol, the capital of Crimea...

, as well as on the Crimean Trolleybus

Crimean Trolleybus

Crimean Trolleybus Line in Crimea, Ukraine is currently the longest trolleybus line in the world. It is long, and runs between the autonomous republic's capital, Simferopol, and the coastal city of Yalta on the Black Sea....

 line.

The area is notable for its rocky terrain. There are also vestiges of a Byzantine defensive tower and a 15th-century Genoese

Republic of Genoa

The Most Serene Republic of Genoa |Ligurian]]: Repúbrica de Zêna) was an independent state from 1005 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast, as well as Corsica from 1347 to 1768, and numerous other territories throughout the Mediterranean....

 fortress. The town was called Aluston (Αλουστον) in the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

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, and Lusta during the Genoese rule. Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

 dedicated two of his Crimean Sonnets to Alushta.

Twin towns — Sister cities

Alushta is twinned

Town twinning

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 with: Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

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, United States

United States

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 Dzierżoniów

Dzierzoniów

Dzierżoniów is a town in southwestern Poland. It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

External links

• Map of Alushta