Oreanda Hotel

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".{{fact|date=July 2023}}

The Hotel was built in 1907 by Alexander Vitmer – a retired general with Danish origins.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

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.{{fact|date=July 2023}}

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In 1918, during the revolutionary period in Yalta, the hotel served as a fort post and defensive fortification for the Crimean opponents of Bolsheviks.{{fact|date=July 2023}}

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.{{fact|date=July 2023}}

• [http://www.hotel-oreanda.com/ Official website]

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Category:Hotels in Yalta

Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1907

Category:Hotels established in 1907

Category:1907 establishments in the Russian Empire