Excursions in the Yalta

Yalta is located on the southern Crimean peninsula.  In the southern part of the Crimean peninsula, nearby the Crimean mountains.  They represent a complex combination of small mountain ranges, rocky ridges and hollows.  Yalta stretches on the beach in the valleys of two mountain streams of karst origin - Wuchang-Su (Vodopadnaya) and Derekoika (fast). On land the city is surrounded by a semicircle of mountains: to the north and north-west of Yalta is Ai-Petrinskaya Jayla - part of the Main Ridge of Crimean Mountains, north-east of it leaves a spur Nikita plateau with Avinda peak (1473 m), gradually sloping to the sea, He ends cape Nikitsky (Marian), south-west of Yalta towering cone-shaped mountain Mogabi (804 m), the southern slope of its ends by the sea cape Ai-Todor.

Massandra Palace

Duration 2 hours

Massandra palace of Emperor Alexander III is located in the Upper Yalta on the southern coast of Crimea. Today, the Palace Museum is a branch Alupka Palace and Park Museum.

Palace were built in 1881, and the final version of the palace acquired the character of early Baroque architecture - the style of Louis XIII.

Livadia Palace

Duration 3 hours

The structure of the Livadia palace and park ensemble, in addition to the Grand Palace, includes: the suite (Cadets) building, the Palace Minister of the Court Baron Fredericks, built simultaneously with the palace, the palace Exaltation of the Cross church, built in 1872, and an Italian courtyard

Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)

Duration 3 hours

Almost in the center of Alupka among the greenery of the park stands the majestic old Vorontsov's Palace - a unique monument of architecture of the first half of the XXI century. Built in the era of romanticism, he strikes a modern viewer a vivid originality of architectural forms. The original plan, an interesting style decision of each of the buildings, the skill with which lined the walls and finally finishing the interior - all this admiration is not one generation of fans of the beautiful. Hundreds of the serfs and hired workers - masons, carvers, modeler, carpenters - put here your talent and work.  It was so skillfully used the terrain that seems to grow out of the palace of the surrounding nature.

Nikita Botanical Gardens

Duration 2 hours