Protected by the foothill of the Crimean mountains, Yalta is bathed by the sun over 300 days of the year. The resort is located on the south coast, in a luxurious natural setting. The quay Lenina on the sea front, constitutes the maritime walk which concentrates restaurants, nightclubs, shops, and comes out into the Primorsky park. Ballads in the streets of the old town are very pleasant. The city hosts some museums of which the famous Tchekhov museum. The family house, surrounded with a magnificent garden shelters the furniture and the decoration of former days, preserved in condition. The villa Massandra, Stalin's former summer residence is in the heart of a beautiful park, at the east of the city. Don't miss the cathedral Alexandre Nevski and its fantastic Art decorative details of neobyzantine style.

Botanical gardens Nikitski: Located at 5 km east of Yalta, they stretch over 200 ha. Created in 1812, they are divided into three sections. The top (Verkhny Park) and the lower park (Nyjny Park) accessible by the superior door, form the arboretum which shelters 28.000 sorts of plants and a magnificent rose garden. The low door allows to reach the maritime park which comes down up to the beach.

The port of Gourzouf: this picturesque harbour village, with its wooden house of tatar style, is nested in the hollow of a small bay, overhung by the mountain of the bear (Medvid Gora, 565 m). Gourzouf was also the place of residence of Tchekhov, Pouchkin, as well as numerous artists. In the Gourzoufsky park, Richelieu's former datcha, now shelters the Pouchkin museum. Nearby,Tchekhov has also his museum located at the foot of a cliff. To visit also, the vestiges of a fortress built by the Byzantines in the VIth century and reconstructed by the Genoese in the XVth century. Gourzouf with its beaches, constitute a small haven of peace.

Soudak: located about 100 km east of Yalta, it was formerly a big business center. You can admire its impressive Genoese fortress (XIV-XVth centuries) very well preserved.

Novy Svit: a few km of Soudak, this bay is simply magnificent. It shelters some of the most beautiful beaches of Crimea and the best champagne of the peninsula is made here.

The nature reserve of Karadag: located between Soudak and Feodossia, this volcanic region presents an impressive landscape.

Feodossia: one of the most ancient city of Crimea. Several Armenian churches, such as the church Saint-Serge, as well as a Genoese fortress testifies of beautiful civil and military architecture. The main museum hosts some 400 Ivan Aïvazovski's works, painter of Armenian origin. Many of his paintings are also exposed to the museum of the Fine art of Odessa. The sandy beaches of Feodossia are very pleasant. Furthermore, it is an excellent point of departure for the visit of the park of Karadag, unless you preferred artists' small village of Koktebel.

Kertch: important industrial and metallurgical area of Crimea, the interest of the visit lies in the vestiges of the ancient Greek city Panticapée and its museum of history and archaeology hosting some treasures of ancient Greece.

Livadia: located at 3 km west of Yalta, Livadia is above all the health resort which hosts "the Grand Palais", theater of the famous conference of Yalta in 1945. Nicolas II made build this beautiful palace of neo-Renaissance style in limestones from Balaklava in 1911.

Aloupka: located about 15 km west of Yalta, this sea resort was the place of residence of the count Vorontsov, which made build his palace of neomoorish style in volcanic rock. Nearby, the funicular, will transport you on the mountain Aï-Petri (1233 m), offering you a magnificent panorama as well on the inside of the lands as on the coasts and the Black Sea

Simeïz: few kilometres of Aloupka, a small neogothic palace " the nest of swallow " (Lastotchkino Gnezdo) built on order of a German oil tycoon in 1912 overhang the cape Aï-Todor.

Bakhtchisaraï: located in a limestone valley of a remarkable beauty, it was formerly the capital of the powerful Crimean Khanate from the XVth till the XVIIIth century. The ancestral land of the Tatars still bears the stigmas of the destructions imposed as well by the Russian Monarchy as by the Soviet power. The main places of interests are the magnificent Palace of the Khans, the impressive troglodytic city of Tchoufout-Kalé (the fort of the Jews) and the Byzantine Uspenski monastery (of the Assumption) set in the limestone rock. Other troglodytic sites are to be discovered near Tchoufout-Kale, such as Tepe-Kermen, Mangoup-Kale or the valley of Eski-Kermen.

Sevastopol: built in 1783 by the general Potemkine on order of Catherine II, it known a disastrous fate. Bombarded between 1854 and 1855 during the Crimean war by a coalition associating the French, the English and the Turks, the city was destroyed. The German troops besieged the city during 349 days, in 1942. It does not remain much of Sevastopol of the former days apart few buildings in the Lenin street. The Russian fleet still rides at anchor in its port. Many monuments and museums are dedicated to these events.

Chersonese: the ruins of the Greek city Chersonesos are after the suburbs of Sevastopol, on the cape of "the quarantine bay". It was built in the VIth century by Greek colonists of Heraclea. The site includes elements of ramparts of the IXe-XIVe centuries dating from Mongolian raids and some marble columns of a small Byzantine basilica. The cathedral of prince St-Volodymyr destroyed during the second world war, was reconstructed in 2004.

Balaklava: This picturesque little harbour town was the maritime base of the British during the war of Crimea, then later, a base totally locked of Soviet submarines. The ruins are those of the Genoese fortress of Cembalo dating from the XVth century.

Foros: this small village is located in approximately 30 km from Sevastopol. It is particularly appreciated by the amateurs of climbing because of the presence of the mountain Mchat-Kaïa and its famous wall, the Forosskiy Kant which overhangs Foros.

Eupatoria: is located in the northwest of the peninsula. It is distant from 70 km of Simferopol. The city hosts an exceptional monument: the mosque of Djouma-Djami built in 1555 by the Turkish architect Sinan. It towers up in a park near the Primorska place on the sea front. It is the biggest mosque of Crimea.