Oreanda Hotel

The Oreanda offers 119 rooms, the majority with sea and mountain views decorated in traditional style.

[citation needed] 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.