沃龙佐夫宫

沃龙佐夫宫印象

• 

  CHRALAMPOSM

  I don't think there is something I did not like. Everything was fabulous! The paintings, the furniture, the view from the terrace.

• 

  KristinaN168

  Great land mark to visit, take pictures. Was our first time in Crimea, great beautiful place, gorgeous architecture, wonderful views. me and my husband did not take tourist guided tour, we went ourselves by regular bus, was pretty easy to get there, had great time.

• 

  SandraW13

  Exert from our 3 week travel blogVorontsov Palace is in the town of Alupka, about 11 miles from Yalta - note that the count also had a palace in Odessa, and maybe more. The palace is now a museum and sits in a 40 hectare (apologies to our American friends) park that was the former grounds. If you visit this palace on a bus tour, get ready for some pretty hairy moments as the bus navigates the tiny roads that are at times lined with cars and other buses. There is also a 600M walk from where the bus stops to the palace; this being a Sunday the park was full of young families out with their children for a morning stroll. Wanting to recapture some of his English upbringing, the count employed the same guy who extended Buckingham Palace, when it came time to build his palace in the Crimea. We crammed into the entry lobby where our guide ensured that we were OK for entry and announced that photo taking inside was only allowed if you purchased a permit, and that he would buy them for anyone who wanted one using his local currency - and then we could pay him the 1/2 Euro equivalent - at which point he promptly turned around and left the room instructing us to follow, no one got to buy a photo permit! By the time we got to the second room most people had started to take photos anyway, the "guards" did not seem to care - maybe our guide knew this all along. During the Yalta conference of 1945, Churchill used the Vorontsov Palace as his base, along with his entourage of 300 - some sleeping 8 to a room (the palace is not that big), there are also only 3 bathrooms in the the place. We found many of the palace room to be too small for the size of our tour group, invariably we could not hear what the guide was saying. The interior is in decent shape but there is not much left from the week that Churchill spent here.

• 

  thepshap

  This is a country house that grew over centuries of add-ons into a proper little palace. The house is sympathetic with well preserved or restored pannelling, some fine art and statuary and a few impressive rooms in the tour. The star is the cliff side site with terraces of paths and gardens in a walled complex. The ticket offices, of which there are a couple for differing purposes, are located quite a ways from the back entrance to the house which is both entrance and holding pen for the tours. Tours are in Russian, but move fairly quickly. Non flash photography is permitted, but you really need then to pick a quiet time or lag between tours to get a shot of anything interesting that does not have a queue of Ukrainain tourists waiting to take pictures of each other.

• 

  Dushi-NY

  We only had time to tour the perimeter of the palace (for a fee). What surprised me was that there's a fee to use the WCs even though it is within the grounds. There is an additional fee to take photos from the outside and is cheapest for a cell phone/tablet photo as opposed to photos taken with a camera. There are imposing guards in camouflage pants patrolling the grounds to make sure that you have a "photo sticker".We liked the "Sleeping Churchill Lion" which Winston Churchill had offered to purchase. The palace was not as ornate as others we have seen (even when compared to Livadia Palace which was used by Tsar Nicholas II and his family).

• 

  margusea_zvezda

  I absolutely think that this is one of must to do places in Crimea. Palace itself is nice, but for me, the garden around it is a gem! i would advice everybody, who is spendin vocation in that area, to take the excursion to Vorontsov! its undescribable. if you like nature, thas definetly nice experience. the only complains: bathrooms, prices...vizited in 2010

• 

  Mickelange

  you can get to this palace from two roads. it is a very beautiful palace and not to be missed. this castle contains several parts. the lower part and the garden are the best parts.the lower part of the castle contains several beautiful monuments of sleeping lions, beautiful scenery and nice gardens.the garden part is very beautiful, it contains a small lake with some ducks in it.to access the inside of the castle you need to buy tickets from the "kacca". there isn't much to see inside the castle. i didn't like it that much.if you do not like walking that much you can rent the small open bus for a small fee.

• 

  travelilnrose

  Walk through a parklike setting to reach Vorontsov Palace, built over a 20 year period from 1828-1848. Several architectural styles are nicely blended together to create the overall effect. Inside, tour nine rooms, each elegantly decorated. The palace is rich in history ~ this is where Churchill stayed during the Yalta Conference. This is definitely worth 60-90 minutes of your time.

• 

  Quinnscommentary

  Amazing what money can buy, especially in the age of the Czars. Worth the trip if you are in the area. Churchill slept here during the Yalta conference in 1945. The grounds are beautiful and I was drawn to Churchill's sleeping lion.

• 

  belleretraite

  We visited the Vorontsov Palace while we were on a Black Sea cruise and it was part of a tour that we organised and included the trio of the Vorontsov , the Massandra and the Livadia Palaces . The three Palaces are really different and each has its own architecture ! While the Livadia Palace is overall the most interesting , the Vorontsov palace is probably the most original and definitly the one with the biggest gardens . Definitly worth a visit !