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Clustered around seventeen isolated volcanic laccolith domes in the northern foothills of the Caucasus, Pyatigorsk and its sister spa towns of Kislovodsk, Yessentuki and Zheleznovodsk preserve the nineteenth-century mineral-water culture depicted by Mikhail Lermontov in A Hero of Our Time. Walk Pyatigorsk's Tsvetnik Park up Mount Mashuk to the Aeolian Harp pavilion, and explore Kislovodsk's 960-hectare terraced Kurortny Park.
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The things that would make the trip incomplete without them.
993-metre travertine dome with an 1831 neoclassical cupola by the Bernardazzi brothers
Includes the subterranean turquoise karst pool of Proval and views toward twin-peaked Elbrus on clear mornings.
1812 thatched whitewashed cottage where Lermontov spent his final months in 1841
Preserves the nineteenth-century Goryachevodsk spa quarter beneath Mashuk.
1848 Gothic-Revival mineral pump room and terraced mountain-air walking trails (terrenkurs)
One of Europe's largest landscaped urban resort parks.
Beyond the obvious
Less obvious, rarely queued for, and usually the part people remember.
1901 wrought-iron and stained-glass pavilion fabricated in Warsaw
Anchors Pyatigorsk's historic spa promenade below Diana's Grotto.
