Attractions of the Crimean Peninsula

The Crimean Peninsula is a true man-made museum. The length of its unique nature reserves is counted in thousands of hectares.

Not far from Yalta and the winery "Massandra" is a Crimean reserve farm.

On a huge area in the center of the Crimean mountains are forests of pine, oak, beech trees, which are home to many animals.

Giant ranges Karagach, Magnetic, Hoba-Tepe, Holy Mountain, Kok-Kaya are all part of the Karadag Reserve, which is one of the most interesting natural landscape monuments in Russia.

Amazing, truly unique exotic plants are collected in Nikitsky Botanical Garden, which was founded in 1812. Today its "bouquet" contains over 30 thousand representatives of flora, including endemic ones. Very valuable collections of various rare plants have Alupka and Massandra parks.

In the mountains, steppes and coast there are many places where tourists or vacationers are waiting to meet with ancient traces of human habitation (for example, Kiik-Koba, Staroselie), with monuments of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, antiquity and the Middle Ages. Tourists can take a trip to ancient times by visiting the Chersonese Nature Reserve.

The museum expositions of this ancient city will acquaint you with the ancient and medieval past of Chersonesos and the monuments of the settlement. In the archives of the reserve there are more than 500 units of Latin and Greek inscriptions.

The visitors of Bakhchisaray and the cave towns of Eski-Kermen and Chufut-Kale will discover interesting pages of Crimean history. The remnants of the Genoese fortresses in Sudak and Feodosia remind us about the events of ancient times.

In the former royal residence - Livadia Palace, you can look at the life, resting here the family of the last Russian emperor. Tourists and vacationers Crimean peninsula offers many historical and cultural attractions, local history, art and literary museums.

The beautiful climate, wonderful nature, the warm Black Sea, numerous hotels, resorts and campsites are waiting for tourists all year round.

You can book a tour with a variety of excursions in many travel agencies in Russia.