Oreanda Hotel
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The Oreanda Hotel is a 4-star, historic hotel in Yalta, Crimea, opened in 1907. It is considered a city landmark and overlooks the coastline and neighboring mountains.
Rooms and suites[edit]
The Oreanda offers 119 rooms, the majority with sea and mountain views decorated in traditional style. There are 21 junior suites, 14 suites and 5 apartments. Two apartments bear the names of "Massandra" and "Livadia" – Crimean palaces which once belonged to the Russian Emperor Family - and another apartment is named "Imperial".[citation needed]
History[edit]
The Hotel was built in 1907 by Alexander Vitmer – a retired general with Danish origins.[citation needed] Pre-revolutionary guide-books state that the hotel had "perfect provision, excellent furniture, mirror glasses, fresh air and a well kept garden around". In the lobby an incomparable smell of cigars mixed with a delicate aroma of ground coffee and expensive perfumes, its art saloon exhibited the work of Shishkin, Vereschagin and other maitres who started cultural traditions of Oreanda.[citation needed]
In 1918, during the revolutionary period in Yalta, the hotel served as a fort post and defensive fortification for the Crimean opponents of Bolsheviks.[citation needed]
At the beginning of the World War II, a military hospital was placed here. After the war, the hotel was converted into a recreation centre where the wounded soldiers and officers were treated. By the end of the 1950s with capital repairs, the Oreanda regained the status of a hotel.[citation needed]