Swallow’s Nest

The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at , a small spa town between and on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots.
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  • Locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet)
  • …is also known as “Lastochkino Gnezdo”
  • Description: decorative castle located between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ai-Todorsky lighthouse and Kichkine Palace.
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is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kurpaty and Gaspra.
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is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta…
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, officially transliterated Haspra…
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Koreiz is an urban-type settlement lying south-west… is situated 3 km west of Swallow’s Nest.

Swallow’s Nest

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Latitude
44.43015° or 44° 25′ 49″ north
Longitude
34.12811° or 34° 7′ 41″ east
Open location code
8GPPC4JH+36
Geo­Names ID
703359
Wiki­data ID
Q1353643

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Veps—“Swallow’s Nest” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Swaelnes”
  • Arabic: “قلعة عش السنونو”
  • Armenian: “Ծիծեռնակի բույն”
  • Assamese: “লাষ্টোচকিনো গ্নেজদো”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaranquş yuvası”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡарлуғас ояһы (Ҡырым)”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡарлуғас ояһы”
  • Basque: “Enararen habia”
  • Belarusian: “Ластаўчына гняздо”
  • Chinese: “燕子堡”
  • Chuvash: “Чĕкеç йăвви”
  • Chuvash: “Чĕкеç йăви”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qarılğaç yuvası”
  • Czech: “Vlaštovčí hnízdo”
  • Dutch: “Zwaluwnest (Krim)”
  • Dutch: “Zwaluwnest”
  • Esperanto: “Hirunda nesto”
  • Finnish: “Pääskysenpesä”
  • French: “Nid d’hirondelle”
  • Galician: “Niño de andoriña”
  • Georgian: “მერცხლის ბუდე”
  • German: “Schwalbennest”
  • Hebrew: “קן הסנונית”
  • Hungarian: “Fecskefészek-kastély”
  • Italian: “Nido di rondine”
  • Japanese: “ツバメの巣 (ヤルタ)”
  • Japanese: “燕の巣”
  • Lithuanian: “Kregždės Lizdas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Svaleredet”
  • Norwegian: “Svaleredet”
  • Persian: “قلعه آشیانه پرستو”
  • Polish: “Jaskółcze Gniazdo”
  • Romanian: “Cuibul Rândunicii, Crimeea”
  • Romanian: “Cuibul Rândunicii,Crimeea”
  • Romanian: “Cuibul Rândunicii”
  • Russian: “Ласточкино гнездо (Крым)”
  • Russian: “Ласточкино гнездо”
  • Serbian: “Ластавичје гнездо”
  • Spanish: “Nido de golondrina”
  • Swedish: “Svalboet”
  • Tamil: “தகைவிலான் கூடு”
  • Turkish: “Kırlangıç Yuvası”
  • Ukrainian: “Ластівчине гніздо”
  • Veps: “Malindpeza”

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