The southern coast of Crimea is still one of the cultural centers, with beautiful monuments of architecture, museums, roads paved by the Romans, a corner of amazing diversity. The village of Beregovoe, more known as Castropol, is divided into two parts: the upper - residential with buildings of estates and the lower - the actual resort, where housing is mainly offered for vacationers. Resting in Beregovoye you will find little interesting things: Iphigenia rock, Devil's ladder pass, Isar-Kaya fortress. There are also small cozy pebble beaches in Beregovoye. The resort is located almost in the center between Yalta and Sevastopol, beach season lasts from June to September. This is a great place to beach holiday and educational tourism. Unique hiking excursions in the Crimean Mountains begin from here, there are many rocks with different levels of difficulty for fans of rock climbing and extreme rope jumping, so rest in Beregovoye is suitable for everyone. At your service are sea trips on a yacht, souvenir shops, restaurants. Children will please best water park Crimea "Blue Bay" located ten kilometers in the village of Simeiz. The cleanest sea, strict rocks, beautiful nature and the warm sun will give pleasure to everyone who will honor with their attention resort Castropol.
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Beregovoe (previously Castropol; ukr. Beregove, Crimean cat. Kastropol) is an urban-type settlement on the southern coast of Crimea on the Black Sea coast, it is a member of the Simeiz village council of the Yalta City Council. Better known under the historical name Castropol (the name Beregovoe is not used anywhere except in official documents, geographic maps and encyclopedias).
Geographic division
The village is divided into two historically formed parts: Upper Castropollocated to the west, and Lower Kastropol or simply Castropol, located to the east.
Upper Castropol and Iphigenia rock
In Upper Kastropol, there is a residential one-story estate building, a large VIP-residence, as well as an Orthodox Church (UOC), consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Near the temple there is mineral spring.
Below the level of the buildings of Upper Castropol above the sea is located iphigenia rock... The mountain range 120 in height and 450 in length along the edge of the sea is a cape separating Kastropol from the village of Oliva. The base of the rock is a volcanic cone, made up of volcanic ash deposits (tuffs) with inclusions of volcanic bombs related to the volcanism of the Upper Jurassic period (150 million years ago). The rock massif is divided by a steeply sloping gorge-fault into two parts - the east, called Iphigenia proper, and the west, also known as rock dragon; the top of the latter is covered with characteristic stone peaks.
There is a cross-shaped monument on the eastern peak of the rock. A turn of the Upper Castropol serpentine approaches the slope of the eastern peak of Iphigenia at level 50 below its upper point from the rear (relative to the sea) side. From here, along the gentle part of the cliff, it is easy to climb to the unequipped observation deck at the cross monument.
The name of the rock is associated with the myth of Iphigenia in Taurida and was assigned to the rock by the owner of the estate N.N.Demidov in the 1820s.
Lower Kastropol and forest zone
In Nizhny Kastropol, there is a private development oriented to renting out to vacationers, as well as a seaside resort area. This zone consists of a group of buildings of the Kastropol boarding house, the beach of this boarding house, several hotels and mini-hotels, several VIP-level estates.
In addition, between the Lower and Upper Castropolis there is a kilometer zone of the sub-Mediterranean forest. In the forest zone, Crimean pine, common pine, dull-leaved pistachio, keep-thorny tree, evergreen cypress, common juniper, Cossack juniper, Crimean cistus, Butcher's pine, etc. grow. Yalta mountain-forest reserve. Despite the protected status, the forest zone of Castropol has been actively built up with complexes of hotels and mansions since the 2000s.
Below the eastern part of the forested area is a small pebbled public beach. From the east it is bounded by a cape that separates it from the beach of the Kastropol boarding house. To the west of the public beach there is a scattering of very large (2-5) boulders. This hard-to-reach and hardly visible blocky placer has been used for many years by lovers of nude recreation, mainly couples and families, but also individual ones.
Mountains above Castropolis
North of the highway Sevastopol - Yalta, above Kastropol rises Castropol wall or Castropol kant - one of western parts the rocky cliffs of the Ai-Petrinskaya yayla facing the sea. The relative height of the rocky wall reaches 200, its upper line from sea level reaches a height of 600-950. In the east, the border of the Kastropol wall is the rift of Mount Morcheka, popular among climbers, in the west - a monument of nature and history - the Shaitan-Merdven pass. In literature, the Castropol wall and the Baydar wall located west of Shaitan-Merdven are often combined under a single name Baydaro-Kastropol wall.
In the east of the Kastropol wall, a fortified pavement runs along the slopes of Mount Morchek old path Kerezla from the village of Opolznevoe (Kikeneiz) to the yayla. The vast Morcheki massif from the west on the edge of the yayla's edge is directly adjoined by a pointed rocky Kastropol mountain 954.6 m high (44 ° 25'20 "N, 33 ° 54'22" E).
2300 m west of the Kastropol mountain in the amphitheater-lowering on the edge of the yayla's edge there is a rock Balchikh-Kaya 945 m high (44 ° 25'29 "N, 33 ° 53'27" E), cut into two parts by a fault; both parts of Balchikh-Kai are equipped with passive TV signal reflectors. Another 500 m to the west after a sharp decline (to a height of about 850 m) is a boggy pond; above it, in the dry bed of the watercourse - a well Balchikh-Kuyu... From here to Upper Castropol, 1800 m strictly to the south. Further 800 m to the south-west on the edge of the yayla there is a trapezoidal rock Merdven-Kayasy 856.2 m high (44 ° 25'20 "N, 33 ° 52'25" E)
Further to the west, for 1500 m, there is a sharp drop in the edge of the yayla's edge (by 250 meters in height), ending in a wedge-shaped cliff Isar-Kaya height of about 600 m. On the site at the top of Isar-Kai excavations in 1966-67. foundations of 7 towers of medieval times were found.
350 m west of Isar-Kai, there is the Shaitan-Merdven passage with a height of 578 m.
Transport infrastructure
Access to Beregovoy is possible along two serpentine slopes adjacent to the Sevastopol-Yalta highway. The turns to these serpentines are located 51 and 53 km from the Sevastopol railway station (34 and 32 km from the Yalta bus station, respectively). Both turns to Kastropol are connected with Yalta, Sevastopol and Simferopol by bus. At the same time, the name Beregovoye is not used at bus ticket offices (the stopping points are called Upper and Lower Kastropol, the first of them is closer to Sevastopol, the second is closer to Yalta).
There is no regular transport to the village.
During the summer season, there are daily tourist routes sea \u200b\u200bboats starting from the pier of the Kastropol boarding house or calling at it, directed to Cape Aya and other attractions South Shore Crimea.
In Upper Kastropol, pedestrians can cut the turns of the serpentine road by a poorly preserved multi-span staircase built in 1960. In the past, a staircase led to the seashore at the Iphigenia cliff. Now the remains of the lower flight of the staircase rest against the fence of a private area located under the rock.
Social infrastructure
The village does not have its own authorities and law enforcement agencies, medical services (including no pharmacy points), cemeteries, street lighting. There is a post office. Local residents serve state institutions of Simeiz and Yalta.
There are two permanent stores and a mini-market in Nizhny Kastropol. During the summer season, numerous retail outlets and cafes are also opened on the territory of the Kastropol Pension and the nearby beach promenade.
Story
Ancient history
According to the legends recorded by local residents at the end of the 19th century, before the creation of the fortress, approximately in the 7th century, an Orthodox monastery was located near the Iphigenia rock. The same legend claimed that the monastery was dedicated to the memory of the martyrs who were crucified on this rock to intimidate seafarers around the 3rd century. n. e. by the Roman authorities during the persecution of Christians. Until now, no documentary and material evidence of this legend has been found. However, it was she who served as the basis for the construction of the currently existing monument-cross on the top of the Iphigenia rock.
Period of the Russian Empire
On the site of most of the estate and park of the estate of D. Pervushin, two sanatoriums for teachers were created in 1924. In the city they were united in the Kastropol boarding house.
An episode of the Great Patriotic War is associated with Upper Kastropol. In December 1941, here, on the territory occupied by the Germans, a reconnaissance group of sailors of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet under the command of midshipman F. Volonchuk landed and operated. In memory of this roadstead, a memorial plaque was erected in May 1978 on the slope of the Yalta-Sevastopol highway near the turn to Nizhny Kastropol.
In 1960 in Kastropol was one of the filming sites for the film "Amphibian Man" - V. Korenev, Anastasia Vertinskaya and other artists worked here. In 1986, under the slope of the Iphigenia cliff, part of the filming of the film "Prisoner of the If Castle" took place - here V. Avilov, E. Dvorzhetsky, M. Boyarsky, G. Yungvald-Khilkevich and other filmmakers worked.
In 1971, the village of Kastropol was renamed Beregovoe.
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The resort area is protected Main ridge Crimean mountains from the cold northeastern and northern winds... Rich natural vegetation (coniferous and deciduous species) is combined with parkland; evergreen trees and shrubs predominate.
The village is divided into two historically formed parts: Upper Castropollocated to the west, and Lower Kastropol or simply Castropol, located to the east.
In Upper Kastropol there is a residential one-storey estate building, a large VIP-residence, an Orthodox church built in 2010, consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. There is a mineral spring near the temple.
Below the level of the buildings of Upper Castropol above the sea is located iphigenia rock... The mountain range with a height of 120 and a length of 450 m along the edge of the sea is the cape separating Kastropol from the village of Oliva. The base of the rock is a volcanic cone, made up of volcanic ash deposits (tuffs) with inclusions of volcanic bombs related to the volcanism of the Upper Jurassic period (150 million years ago). The rock massif is divided by a steeply sloping gorge-fault into two parts - the east, called Iphigenia proper, and the west, also known as rock dragon; the top of the latter is covered with characteristic stone peaks.
There is an Orthodox cross on the eastern peak of the rock. To the slope of the eastern summit of Iphigenia at level 50 below its upper point from the rear (relative to the sea) side, a turn of the Upper Castropol serpentine approaches.
The name of the rock is associated with the myth of Iphigenia in Taurida and was assigned to the rock by the owner of the estate N.N.Demidov in the 1820s.
In Nizhny Kastropol there is a private building, as well as a seaside resort area... This zone consists of a group of buildings of the Kastropol boarding house, several hotels and mini-hotels.
In addition, between the Lower and Upper Castropolis there is a kilometer zone of the sub-Mediterranean forest. In the forest zone, Crimean pine, Scotch pine, Pistachio dull-leaved, Hold-thorny tree, Evergreen cypress, Common juniper, Cossack juniper, Crimean cistus, Pontic butcher, etc. grow.
According to the legends recorded by local residents at the end of the 19th century, before the creation of the fortress, approximately in the 7th-10th centuries, an Orthodox monastery was located near the Iphigenia rock. The same legend claimed that the monastery was dedicated to the memory of the martyrs who were crucified on this rock to intimidate seafarers around the 3rd century. n. e. by the Roman authorities during the persecution of Christians. Until now, no documentary and material evidence of this legend has been found. However, it was she who served as the basis for the construction of the presently existing cross on the top of the Iphigenia rock.
Kastropulo is one of the best estates here for its proximity to the sea, the beauty of the location and the property of the vineyard. There is no doubt that there was once a rather significant settlement of the ancient Greeks here. Proof of this, in addition to the name meaning the existence of a fortress in it, are the traces of fortification on a rock, approaching the sea itself, noticed by academician Köppen and the discovery in the earth of clay amphorae or huge jugs in which the ancients kept their wines. The inhabitants of the former Tatar settlement of Mikhalatki, who have now moved to Turkey, told me that according to the legend passed to them from the fathers, Kastropulo was left by the Greeks at the time when the Christians left the Crimean Khanate to the Mariupol steppes; that this settlement was extensive before the Turkish rule on the southern coast, but later, when the Turkish ages began to treat them cruelly and prevent them from free worship, the oppressed could only pray in a cave and were happy to leave their homeland at the first opportunity. According to the same Tatars, the surroundings of Kastropulo under the Greeks were incomparably richer in various kinds of vegetation and abounded in grain, which is not sown here anymore. From them I also learned that the cave, which served as a Temple for the unfortunate Christians and up to the present time, presents traces consistent with the legend, and is located in a rock opposite the villages of Mikhalatka and Kuchuk-koy, which are at an insignificant distance from Kastropulo.
On the military topographic map of Major General Mukhin in 1817, just a natural boundary is indicated Castrop ... In 1823 the estate of Kastropulo was acquired by a representative of one of the richest families in Russia - Nikolai Nikitich Demidov - with the aim of turning it into an "economy" (a separate economic unit) of the experimental viticulture direction. To save money in a short time, more than 20 thousand vines of French and Spanish origin were planted, wine cellars were dug on the slopes, mass production barrels.
After the death of N.N.Demidov (1828) Castropulo was the joint estate of his sons, patrons of the arts - Kursk governor Pavel Nikolaevich Demidov and Anatoly Nikolaevich Demidov (Prince of San Donato). In 1837, Kastropulo was visited by the natural history expedition of Anatoly Demidov (the group of scientists was headed by the professor of the Paris Mining School F. Le-Plais), which left short description savings. By the decree of Nicholas I of March 23 (old style), 1838, on April 15, a new Yalta district was formed and the village was transferred to the Derekoy volost. On the map of 1842, Castropol is already indicated by the conventional sign "small village", that is, less than 5 courtyards.
According to the division of the property of the Demidovs in 1861, Kastropulo went to the son of PN Demidov - Pavel Pavlovich Demidov (Prince of San Donato), later the Kiev mayor. According to "List populated areas Tauride province according to information in 1864 ", compiled on the basis of the results of the VIII revision of 1864, Castropol is a proprietary Russian economy, with 1 yard and 7 inhabitants, at the Kuime stream ... On three-verst the map of 1865-1876, separately, as small villages, are marked Kostropol and Demidov's dacha.
In 1873, P.P.Demidov-San Donato sold Kastropulo to the Russian diplomat Baron Karl Karlovich Toll, who transferred the estate to his daughter Margarita (married Izvolskaya). After that, the name of the village of Kastropulo was transformed into Kastropol, by analogy with the city names of Greek origin common in the southern Russian region [ ]. On verst On the map of 1889-1890, on the site of Beregovoye, the Nizhny Kastropol estate is marked.
In 1882-1892, in the estate of Castropol, Baroness M.C. Toll lived last years life organizer of one of the first Communities of Sisters of Mercy in Russia, Martha Sabinina; here she wrote her autobiographical Notes. In those same years, a friend and colleague of M. Sabinina for charity, the maid of honor of the imperial court, Baroness Maria Fredericks, often visited Castropol. At the initiative of M. Sabinina, at the expense of M. Fredericks, a portable Orthodox church was built and consecrated in Kastropol (soon, however, it was transferred by the will of the patrons themselves to Feodosia, where it served as the basis for the construction of the Kazan Cathedral).
On the site of most of the estate and park of the estate of D. Pervushin, two sanatoriums for teachers were created in 1924. In 1960 they were merged into the Kastropol boarding house. According to the Kikineiz village council of the Yalta region, there were two farms: Kastropol with 19 yards, of which 5 were peasants, the population was 36 people, of which 32 were Russians, 31 were Crimean Tartars, 1 was Ukrainian and Kastropol Nizhny (3 yards, 11 Russian residents) ...
List settlements Crimean ASSR according to the All-Union census on December 17, 1926The episode is connected with Upper Castropol, and other filmmakers.
The mild climate of the Mediterranean type does not differ significantly from the climate of Yalta (see also in the stations South Coast of Crimea and Simeiz). Natural and climatic conditions are favorable for carrying out climatotherapy of chronic respiratory diseases, functional diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, and for climate prophylaxis. The beach of fine pebbles and sand (length approx. 2 km) is convenient for thalassotherapy.
There are boarding houses "Kastropol", "Kryvyi Rih miner"; a sanatorium complex is under construction.
Travel to Beregovoy is possible along two serpentine slopes, adjacent to the Sevastopol highway, Cape Aya and other attractions of the southern coast of Crimea.
In Upper Kastropol, pedestrians can cut the turns of the serpentine road by a poorly preserved multi-span staircase built in 1960. In the past, a staircase led to the seashore at the Iphigenia cliff. Now the remains of the lower flight of the stairs rest against the fence of a private area located under the rock.
The village does not have its own authorities and law enforcement agencies, medical services (including no pharmacy points), cemeteries, street lighting. There is a post office. Local residents are served by state institutions of Simeiz and Yalta.
There is one permanent store and a mini-market in Nizhny Kastropol. During the summer season, numerous retail outlets and cafes are also opened on the territory of the Kastropol Pension and the nearby beach promenade.
Castropol is located in a small, very picturesque bay. The entire village is divided into upper and lower areas, separated by a forest belt. This is a small provincial resort, without noisy entertainment.
As befits the South Coast resort, Castropol - hilly village, and wherever you stop, you will have to go down to the beach, and back up the hill. Consider this fact.
Another point - the coastal waters of Castropol are distinguished by their depth. Therefore, they warm up a little later than in other resorts of Crimea.
Castropol
Infrastructure of Castropol
As I said, the village is small. The infrastructure is represented by several shops, an equally meager selection of cafes and restaurants, several playgrounds and an equipped beach. So if you are looking for a more lively resort, you are unlikely to like Castropol. Rather, it is an option for a quiet, relaxing holiday.
It is noteworthy that despite the lack of competition, in Kastropol, prices for food and cafes are not too high.
Tip for a note: take the minimum set of medicines with you, because there is not even a pharmacy in Castropol.
With the choice of housing, everything is much better. There are also economy-economy options with a bathroom on the street and the most modest accommodation conditions. There are also boarding houses, including full board. There are also quite decent hotels.
Remember what I wrote above. The settlement is divided into upper and lower areas. Accordingly, by renting a house in Upper Castropol, you lengthen and complicate your way to the beach, but at the same time, significantly save your budget. And vice versa.
Tip: There are problems with hot water in Castropol. Therefore, be sure to check before booking whether hot water is constantly supplied or on a schedule.
Castropol Beaches
The beaches in Castropol are pebbly. There is a city equipped beach with breakwaters and a parking lot, there is wild beaches... The city beach, although not very large, but the crush, as in Yalta, for example, does not happen here. There is a place at any time of the day.
Behind Cape Gusin, to the west of the city beach, there is a place hidden from prying eyes - a rocky beach. Mainly fans of an even tan, that is, nudists, gather here.
Castropol Beaches
What to see in Castropol
Although Castropol is a small village that cannot boast of a developed tourist infrastructure, there is a lot to do here. The sights are mostly natural. It:
Devil's Ladder or Shaitan-Merdven - the pass leading to the Ai-Petrinskaya Yaila. In ancient times, this road connected South Crimea with cave monasteries and cities of Western Crimea, as well as Chersonesos with the Kharaks fortress. Pushkin, Griboyedov, and Zhukovsky walked here at one time. On the way, you can find traces of the old trail paving. From the highest point of the pass, a stunning view of the surroundings opens up.
Iphigenia rock Is the symbol of Castropolis. According to legend, somewhere here was the very temple in which Iphigenia served as a priestess.
Orthodox church in Upper Castropol. The temple was consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Near the temple there is a mineral spring.
How to get to Castropol
In Castropol itself, unfortunately, public transport does not go. The village can be reached by any transport plying the Sevastopol - Yalta highway. You will need to get off at one of two stops: "Upper Kastropol" or "Lower Kastropol". From the first stop close to the upper part of the village, it will take about 15 minutes to go to the lower one. If you need to go to the lower area, it is better to get off at the second stop.
If you arrive in Crimea by plane, there is a stop in front of Simferopol airport. From there it is better to get to the railway station, where take a minibus to Simeiz. Ask the driver to stop at the Upper or Lower Kastropol. The most convenient way, of course, is to take a taxi or order a transfer in advance if you are not driving.
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