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This picturesque resort town lies cosily at the foot of Aiudah Mountain. Among the attractions of Hurzuf mention should be made of the remains of the Genoese Fortress Hurzuvity. It was constructed in the 6th c., and in the 15th c. the Turks destructed it once and for all. Among the monuments of architecture there is the residence of A. E. Richelieu built by the Governor-General in 1811. Now it houses the Push kin Museum. There is also A. P. Chekhov's villa, a modest house with a small plot of seashore, which the author bought for rest.
Gurzuf has many places associated with visits of Russian poet A. S. Push kin, classical writer A. P. Chekhov, worldly-known singer F. I. Chaliapin, and the artist K. A. Korovin.
Gurzuf Park. Covers an area of 12 hectares. Founded in 1808-1812 in the valley of the mountain River Avunda. The park is laid out in the landscape style with regular elements. Almost 110 species and forms of trees and shrubs grow in it, among them conifers, particularly stone, Pitsunda (var. Stankewiczi), Crimean, grey-leaf, Aleppo, and Pallas pines; Atlas, Himalayan, and Lebanon cedars; common, horizontal, and Arizona cypresses; mammoth trees and common yews. There are also broad-leaved evergreens: holms, strawberry trees, bay laurels, and trifoliate lemons.
The park is adorned with numerous monuments and sculptures. Its central alley features busts of A. Pushkin, Lesia Ukrainka, V. Mayakovsky, A. Chekhov, M. Gorky, F. Chaliapin, and A. Mickiewicz. It is also decorated with fountains The Night, Rachel, A Nymph, Orpheus, and A Bather. The planning structure of the park in the time of its floruit has been preserved, only its north and southwest sections were changed.