The story of the Arboretum
The writer and journalist Sergei Khudekov created the park in the 1890s as a private garden for his villa, planting trees and shrubs from across the world. It later became a state park and research garden.
Today it holds well over a thousand kinds of plants, from palms and bamboo to cedars and magnolias, around Italian-style terraces, ponds with swans, fountains and sculptures. The upper park has views over the Black Sea.
