Russian-language article (translation in progress).
"Nizhnyaya Oreanda" Park is beautiful during all the seasons. The combination of luxuriant greenery with fairy-tale rock conglomeration gives it particular expressiveness and originality. The lane of pyramid-like cypresses, blue atlas cedars, brushwood of noble laurel, large-flowered magnolias, the grove of European olives are wonderful. Eastern plane that towers in the centre of the park attaches the whole appearance an exclusive beauty. This platan is the biggest and oldest among all the ancient ones in South East: 80 metres of height and 6.5 metres of trunk circle. But taking to an account that platans live more than 2000 years in Mediterranean countries, this one is not more than a baby, it is under 300 years old.
