Swallow's Nest Castle
the castle of love in Crimea
The castle in my dreams, isolation, with sea breeze...
Swallow's Nest Castle sits atop a steep cliff overlooking the Black Sea, in the
Crimean Peninsula of southern Ukraine. The imitation-Gothic structure was built in the late19th century and stands a few miles south of the city of Yalta.
The legend of
Swallow’s Nest goes to the medieval times. Once the famous Russian general brought a beautiful captive from war. In honor of his last the most romantic love he built the unusual castle over sea abyss for the girl. It is unknown, if the girl loved the general, but once, when the famous warrior returned from the battle bleeding, wounded, but alive, he did not find his beloved there. Maybe she escaped with Turkish smugglers or jumped to the sea abyss, having not awaited her general, who knows?
There are actually a lot of swallows and white-winged seagulls near the Castle of Love. If you bend over the balcony and look down, it seems that you also turn into the bird, who flies to the blue height, to red sun on the morning horizon having touched water with its wing. Probably due to this the name "Swallow’s Nest" caught on the medieval castle on Avrorianska rock of Ai-Todor cape, which has become the brightest emblem of Crimea.
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