Swallow’s Nest
The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: decorative castle located between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula
- Also known as: “Lastochkino Gnezdo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ai-Todorsky lighthouse and Kichkine Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kurpaty and Gaspra.
Kurpaty
Town
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Kurpaty is an urban-type settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.
Gaspra
Town
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Gaspra, officially transliterated Haspra, is a spa town, an urban-type settlement in Yalta Municipality in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is located on the Black Sea coast, west of Yalta, and is a popular holiday resort.
Koreiz
Town
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Koreiz is an urban-type settlement lying south-west of Yalta in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Koreiz is situated 3 km west of Swallow’s Nest.
Swallow’s Nest
- Categories: folly and architectural landmark
- Location: Gorodskoy okrug Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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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”
- 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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