Massandra park

Massandra park in which a hotel «Yalta-Intourist» is located, can be named justly one of the most beautiful parks of the South coast of Crimea. The author of its primary plan was K. Kebakh, a creator of Alupka park. Massandra Park was in founded in 40s of XIX century.
In this old landscape park, side by side with local species – a furry oak, an arbutus, a wild pistachio, a high juniper, a Crimean pine-tree, a butcher's-broom of the Pont, many exotic ones grow: cypresses, a giant sequoia Dendron, cedars of the Atlass and Himalaya, a noble laurel, a magnolia large-flowered, a criptomeriya, a bamboo, a remarkable pine, a pine of Bunge, a charming silver fir and many others.
Changing every minute on the way of following a various hypsography does not give an eye getting tired of monotony. Here it is bright greenery of sunny glades, there it is a monumental composition of cypresses and cedars, and, near a little pond there is a cool bamboo grove. In breaks between woodlots, as through a window, magnificent views of a gleaming sea and picturesque Crimean mountains are opened, the smell of boxwood and rosemary, many-voiced twitter of birds, rumbling of brooks is coming from everywhere.
But the basic attractiveness of Massandra park is related to healing walk rest along special terrenkurs with the dosed physical loading. Walking in these picturesque paths, guests of hotel «Yalta-Intourist» breathe in healthful air, clean and saturated by sea salt (carried there by an easy breeze) and forest coniferous aromas. Such treatment is named a climate therapy. Unlike medicinal therapy, usually defiant by-effects, the treatment with natural factors stimulates immune forces of organism,  strengthens the muscles, stabilizes blood and intracraneal pressure, positively influences the sight, psycoemotional condition, promotes the functional capabilities of the respiratory system, increasing the vital capacity of lunges, their maximal ventilation, positively influences the function of the cardio-vascular system.
As a prominent Russian doctor S.P.Botkin wrote: «..., on my opinion, has its large future…»