Top 10 places in Crimea that you need to visit. Sights of Crimea that are definitely worth visiting. Genoese fortress in Sudak
TOP 10 BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN CRIMEA THAT YOU MUST VISIT To explore all the sights of Crimea, you will need more than one trip to the south. It is especially important to know where exactly to go in order to see the true beauty of the picturesque peninsula. - Marble Cave An incredible cave in Crimea is located on the lower plateau of the Chatyr-Dag mountain range. It was discovered in 1987 by Simferopol speleologists. The complex system of halls and galleries is now illuminated in different colors and is open to visitors. You just want to touch the bizarre forms of sinter formations. The total length of all explored halls is more than 2 km, and the depth is 60 meters. -Genoese fortresses Genoese fortresses were built in the Middle Ages by the Genoese. There are three fortresses in Crimea, the foundation of which was laid by these people. You can look at the ancient buildings in Balaklava (Chembalo fortress), in Sudak and in Feodosia (Kafa). - Vorontsov Palace At the foot of Mount Ai-Petri in the city of Alupka there is one of the most beautiful palaces in Crimea. It is built from diabase, a volcanic rock. Here you can visit the museum and stroll through the park where many roses grow. Vorontsovsky Park was created by the chief gardener of the South Coast, Karl Kebach. The palace was built in the spirit of English architecture; there are also elements from other eras. In addition, the landscape of the South Coast was taken into account during the construction, so the palace looks very beautiful from the water during a boat ride - Valley of Ghosts Bizarrely shaped rocks can be found in the northern part of the Alushta Valley. There is a fortress on Mount Demerdzhi, the path near which leads to the Valley of Ghosts. Here you can look at many stone figures, guessing the shapes of which is also an exercise for the brain. In the Valley of Ghosts there is the “Profile of Catherine II” - a rock resembling a female bust, and the “Giant” - a 25-meter stone mass. Due to the weathering of the rocks, you can really imagine here - each of the small rocks, of which there are many in this place, resembles fairy-tale characters, animals and plants. - Golitsyn Trail The mountain trail, carved on the slope of Mount Koba-Kaya, is an ideal place for walks and photographs. It was built in 1912 in honor of the arrival of Tsar Nicholas II. The initiator of the creation was Prince Lev Golitsyn. They say that after the walk, Nicholas II drank champagne and “saw life in a new light.” The trail begins on the southwestern shore of Green Bay and extends under the northern slope of Mount Koba-Kaya, leads out to the south side, descends and follows the coast of Blue Bay, then leads out to Cape Kapchik and opens up views of Blue Bay and Tsarsky Beach. The route ends with the Juniper Grove, leading to the center of the Novy Svet village. - Mountain town Chufut-Kale The medieval fortress town is located 2.5 km from Bakhchisarai. There are many options for the names of this place; one of the most popular is considered to be a simple translation from the Crimean Tatar language, according to which “Chufut-Kale” is a Jewish fortress. It is believed that the city arose presumably in the 5th – 6th centuries and served as a fortification on the border of the Byzantine possessions. Mostly Karaites lived in Chufut-Kale. - Foros Church This church is famous primarily for its location. The Foros Church is separated from the sea by 472 m. It was erected in 1892 with the money of the tea magnate Kuznetsov, who had plantations in Ceylon. The Byzantine style of the church was developed by academician Chagin. The reason for the construction was the events of 1888, when the royal family’s train crashed at Borki station. In honor of the fact that all members of the family remained alive, the Foros Church was erected. - Temple of the Sun An unusual place of power, where you can recharge yourself with the energy of nature, is located in the Laspi Bay area, 30 km from Sevastopol. Previously, the ancient monastery of St. Elijah was built here, but now only the foundation remains of it, but the place remains prayed for. A little lower from the remains of the shrine, on the rise to the top of Mount Ilyas-Kaya, lies the Temple of the Sun - a composition of rocks resembling a hand. That is why the place is also called “Seven Fingers”. People say that this is the most powerful energy point in Crimea, where you can get a colossal charge of strength and make secret wishes that will surely come true! - Bay of Love Bay of Love is one of the most important decorations of the village of Rybachye. It’s not easy to get here, but it’s worth it - the view of the Black Sea is stunning. Take your choice of shoes seriously - they should fit on your feet and not slip, since you will have to climb rocks. In fact, it is much easier to get to the bay by swimming. If you love thrills and incredible freedom, be sure to try to get and enjoy the untouched nature of Crimea in this place. Be prepared to meet naked people and people snorkeling. Since here is the mouth of an ancient volcano, filled with crystal clear water, in the bay you just want to take off your clothes and look at the world under water. - Cape Aya The beautiful Cape Aya is located southeast of Balaklava. The name comes from the Greek word “ayos”, which means “holy”. This is a place with very strong energy and ancient plants that cannot be found in other places in Crimea. The place is also famous for the grottoes at the foot and a giant funnel covered with huge stones of different colors.
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Crowded beaches of famous resorts, embankments of seaside cities filled with tourists, “promoted” cafes where there is never free space... This is the Crimea that everyone knows. But there are so many amazing, little-known and unique places on the peninsula that you should definitely visit. And then you can proudly say: “I know Crimea!”
Paradise Park, Aivazovskoye
The most famous park in Crimea, Nikitsky Botanical Park, often resembles a market on a Sunday. Entire queues line up to smell this or that rare flower, to take a photo against the “obligatory” background...
But Crimea has a real park highlight, a landscape masterpiece and the most romantic place, which has seen declarations of love and marriage proposals more than once. This is the Paradise Park, which is in Aivazovsky, a little before reaching Partenit.
Here you will find the greenest grass, the most colorful flowers and the most amazing man-made waterfalls. The park has a collection of 7 thousand coniferous trees and 200 species of exotics, as well as a relict olive grove where Pushkin, Raevsky, and Griboedov spent their leisure hours.
The emerald greenery of the park magically combines with white sculptures of ancient heroes and deities. Some paths are lined with mosaics with ornaments and ethnic motifs. You can easily see peacocks and squirrels on the paths.
Lavender fields
Once upon a time, Crimea was one of the leaders in the production of essential oils. French perfumers came here, bought raw materials and highly praised their quality. Today there is little left of the former fields. But this is also amazing. For example, soft purple lavender fields, fragrant for many kilometers around.
They were preserved near Simferopol, near the village of Mazanka, but here they look unkempt, the fields are overgrown with weeds. The ideal place for a photo shoot “in lavender” is the Bakhchisarai region, especially the village of Turgenevka. Lavender also blooms beautifully behind the reservoir near the villages of Kudrino and Shelkovichnoye.
Tulip fields
And if we’re talking about the flowery Crimea, how can we not mention the tulip farms? Often photos taken in such fields are confused with landscapes of Holland. So where can you find such beauty?
In the Krasnogvardeisky district, in the village of Yantarnoye. Here, the legendary agricultural workshop No. 55 is engaged in growing tulips. In the village itself there is an office of the agricultural workshop, where for a small fee (about $3) tourists are given a pass to enter the field. The tulip paradise itself begins 3 km from the village. By presenting your pass to the security guard, you can walk around to your heart’s content, take photos and breathe in the scent of these spring flowers.
Little Jerusalem
Arriving in Evpatoria, many tourists walk along the Embankment, swim in the sea and sometimes do not even imagine where the true highlight of this city is. We are talking about the old city, the historical center of Yevpatoria, which is called “Little Jerusalem”. This place was included in the seven best Ukrainian tourist routes, and even UNESCO recommends it for all tourists to visit.
Little Jerusalem is a cozy town in the very heart of Evpatoria. The ancient curved streets keep many secrets. In such a small area there is an amazing variety of sacred objects: mosques, an Armenian temple, an Orthodox temple, Karaite kenas, two synagogues and the kek of dervishes - Muslim wanderers! In the summer, every Friday the main street of the town - Karaimskaya - turns into a fair and carnival. Here folk dances are shown, craft master classes are held, national dishes are served, handmade souvenirs are sold, and songs are sung in a variety of languages. The holiday is complemented by amazing “Living Statues” - the calling card of Evpatoria.
Cliff
Not all beaches of the southern coast of Crimea are filled to capacity with vacationers. There are still beautiful and spacious places left. Let us tell you about one such secret place called the Cliff. Located in close proximity to Partenit, on the shore of a picturesque bay. Here is also the elevated Cape Plaka, from which the view opens up unforgettable: on the horizon is Mount Bear, and from it to Partenit - all the seaside villages, whitening among lush greenery.
The cliff is an ideal place for those who like to dive with a mask and fins. The bottom is very beautiful. After bathing, you should definitely take a walk: here is an ancient luxurious park leading to Gagarina’s Palace.
Cape Martyan
Cape Martyan is one of the protected areas of Crimea and is a coastal area of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. Therefore, be prepared that during the holiday season there may be an entrance fee. These are fairly uncrowded pebble beaches, protected by a high rocky wall on the landward side. There are rocks scattered in the sea from which you can dive. Divers and spearfishing enthusiasts really appreciate Cape Martyan.
Kronenthal
What peoples have not left their mark in Crimea! But we are especially grateful to the Germans, who left a wonderful legacy - Kronenthal. Today Kronental is a cultural and ethnographic center located on the territory of the modern village of Kolchugino, along the Simferopol-Nikolaevka highway. But it was once a large German colony, whose residents were deported from Crimea during World War II.
Over time, German traditions have been revived in Kolchugino, and every lover of real beer considers it his duty to visit the Kronenthal center. Beer tours take place in the cozy basement of a German house, where the ancient interior and spirit of the Crimean Germans have been recreated. There are kegs of dark and light live beer on the table, and the firewood crackles comfortably in the fireplace, in which you can fry Bavarian sausages.
Lucky
There are very sad moments in the history of Crimea. One of them is the complete extermination of the inhabitants of the Greek village of Laki, in the Crimean foothills of the Bakhchisarai region. Today, on the site of the village, only the Church of St. Luke remains, in which services are still held. It rises above the emerald greenery where village houses once stood. This place is both solemn and sad. The view from the temple is magnificent. Laki is a great place for lovers of green tourism, bike trips and local historians.
Cape Kazantip
The protected peninsula of Crimea, the birthplace of the famous electronic music festival and simply a fabulous place - Kazantip. It is called a cape, although in fact it is a small rounded peninsula consisting of beautiful wild beaches, each of which is different from the others. Some are rocky and almost inaccessible, others are sandy and wide. Life is vibrant on Kazantip: hares and foxes are running around, birds are making nests, and a huge number of commercial fish species are swimming in the sea. The protected status of Kazantip does not mean that entry is closed here. No, the foresters will only provide a price list for the cost of entry for a person or passage for a car. Kazantip is a semi-wild place, standing away from civilization. Therefore, at night, nothing dreams of contemplating the bottomless starry sky, crossed out by the white path of the Milky Way...
General's beaches
You have not known Crimea if you have not visited the coast of its two seas - the Black and Azov. The Azov coast is sparsely populated and spacious. But one place is especially beautiful, which is not so easy to get to. These are the General beaches, incredibly beautiful coves, separated from each other by rocky massifs. They are located in close proximity to the village of Zolotoe. Here, in the village, you can get fresh water, which the General’s beaches are not rich in.
Transparent water, golden sand of the beach, silence and almost complete privacy make General's beaches the most desirable place for romantics and true connoisseurs of Crimea.
The best sandy beaches in CrimeaSandy beaches are the highlight of Crimea; it is for them that many vacationers, especially parents with children, come to vacation in Crimea. It must be borne in mind that after waves and storms at sea, the water on sandy beaches becomes cloudy for some time (several days). And the second “minus”...
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Where did the secret conspiracies take place? Where did slender officers dance with beautiful girls? Where did the most famous representatives of the nobility and aristocracy gather? Answers to all these questions can be obtained by traveling through the palaces of Crimea - witnesses to the heyday of the peninsula, when it was an elite resort..
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Reviews and opinions
The Kronenthal brewery is a scam for tourists. We read a lot on the Internet and decided to go to May 2013. We got there - not a single sign. We started asking locals - no one had heard or knew anything about her. It was difficult to find using GPS coordinates. Everything is closed, not a single sign. We started asking our neighbors - they laughed and said that it only opens for the arrival of tour groups, the beer is imported, in general it’s a Potemkin village.
The Crimean peninsula is a unique historical and cultural reserve. Here, for centuries, the cultures of different peoples living in this area were intertwined. The history of confrontation between the civilizations of East and West is especially clear in Crimea - this is the history of the Greek colonialists and nomads from the Golden Horde, the first Christians and Muslims who built churches and mosques here. But Crimea is not only a point on the map rich in historical events. It is also a beautiful, varied nature, considered the best place for recreation and tourism in the USSR, during which Crimea was rightly called the “All-Union Health Resort”. In those days, up to 8 million people annually vacationed in more than a hundred sanatoriums in Crimea. It will take more than one month to explore all the sights of the Crimean peninsula, but we bring to your attention ten places that you must visit first.
bird home
This menacing-looking Gothic castle, located on the cliff itself, was in fact not built during the Dark Middle Ages, but only a century ago - in 1912. This layout was ordered by the German industrialist Baron von Stengel, who wanted his “dacha” to remind him of his homeland in its appearance. At the beginning of World War I, the baron urgently sold the castle, and after reconstruction the building turned into an open restaurant.
Submarine base in Balaklava
Ten kilometers from Sevastopol in the resort town of Balaklava there is a top-secret submarine base. For security purposes, even at the construction stage, which began back in 1957, the secret facility was given the name City Telephone Exchange number 825 or GTS 825. This is a huge underground structure, the area of all premises of which is more than 5 thousand square kilometers. In 1994, the station was closed, and after the annexation of Crimea, a museum dedicated to this base was opened here.
Mount Ai-Petri
One of the most popular places among tourists on the map of the Crimean Peninsula. The Greek temple of St. Peter (Ai-Petri in Greek) was once located here, the ruins of which remain here to this day. You can get to the top of the mountain by cable car, which, by the way, is recognized as the longest in Europe. From the highest point of the mountain called Roka (1346 meters) there is a stunning view of the Yalta mountain forest reserve and the coast of the Crimean peninsula.
Karadag Reserve
One of the most mysterious places on the southern coast of Crimea. The unique landscape of Karadag is formed by solidified lava flows that last erupted from the Kara-Dag (Black Mountain) volcano more than 150 million years ago. In 1979, a reserve was established here, designed to preserve the unique flora and fauna of this place, many species of which are included in the Red Book.
Chersonese Tauride
This was the name of the city more than two and a half thousand years ago, founded by the Greeks. It was here, in a city where a huge number of monasteries and Orthodox churches were once located, that Prince Vladimir was baptized. Nowadays, the ruins of Chersonesus or “Russian Pompeii” attract researchers and tourists from all over the world. In 1892, an archaeological museum was opened here, which collected many valuable artifacts from the ancient city. And later a state reserve was founded.
Gazebo of the winds
At the top of Shagan-Kaya at an altitude of 1450 meters there is a stone gazebo built in 1956. The mosaic on its floor depicts a compass rose, from which the gazebo got its name. From here there is an amazing view of Mount Ayu-Dag, Gurzuf, Partenit and the Black Sea, which in clear weather can be seen for 150 kilometers. Next to the gazebo there is a cave in which winter reigns and snow lies even in the hottest weather.
Fortress "Kerch" Fort Totleben
It was decided to build a fortress on the shore of the Kerch Strait to bypass the Paris Peace Treaty, which prohibited Russia from having a fleet and military ports on the Black Sea. The central fort of the grandiose structure is named after the general who led the construction of the fortifications. And today, the Kerch fortress remains an excellent example of what impregnable fortifications were erected in the mid-19th century. Currently, excursions are conducted around “Kerch” and it is studied by specialists - some of the extensive underground passages under it have not yet been properly explored.
Mount Demerdzhi
Demerdzhi – which translates from Tatar as “blacksmith” – is a beautiful mountain, similar to a medieval castle, in the northern part of the Alushta Valley. On its western slope there is the so-called Valley of Ghosts. Here, near the ruins of the fortress, there are more than a hundred stone sculptures, reminiscent of human and animal figures in their outlines. And if you climb to the top of the mountain, from a height of over 1200 meters you will see a picturesque view of the surrounding area.
Tarkhankut
Until the end of the 18th century, the population of the Tarkhankut Peninsula was small, only a few hundred inhabitants, mainly engaged in agriculture. Changes began after part of the lands were transferred to Major General V.S. in 1784. Popov, who improved the economy of the region. The cape located on the peninsula attracts many scuba divers, archaeologists and tourists. Underwater archaeologists find here priceless artifacts from the ancient era, when the Scythians and Greeks lived here.