Day 1: Odessa
Transfer to the hotel and check-in. Lunch in a restaurant in Odessa.
Discovery of the city by beginning with the charming Primorsky boulevard, the favourite meeting place of the inhabitants of Odessa, designed by the Italian architect F. Boffo. In the centre of the boulevard towers up the statue of the duke of Richelieu, considered as the father of the city. At feet of the statue, fall away the flight of stairs of the Potemkine staircase made famous by Serguei Eisenstein's film.
Farther is the Vorontsov palace: work of the Italian architect Boffo, this palace was the residence of the third governor of Odessa the count Mikhaïl Vorontsov. Then, we will return to the Primorsky boulevard to go to the city hall: located at the extremity of the boulevard, this white neo-classic style building was originally the palace of the stock exchange, then, the former regional Soviet. Nearby, is the bust of the famous Russian poet Alexandre Puchkin.
Back to the hotel and dinner.

Day 2: Odessa
breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the place Catherine nowadays called place of the sailors of the Potemkine: originally was there the statue of Catherine II, which was unbolted in 1920 by the Bolsheviks and replaced by a bust of Karl Marx, before the inauguration of the statue of the sailors of the Potemkine in 1960. Some metres farther extends the Chevtchenko park. Arches lined with a row of artillery, are the vestiges of the fortress built in XVIIIth century to ensure the defence of the harbour. Then, we shall go in the city centre also called the old square for the visit of the opera. The visit will continue in the De Ribas street, this artery and the adjacent streets concentrate all the trendy bars and restaurants of the old square, as well as numerous shops. At the right of the De Ribas street, is the municipal garden sheltering musicians, painters, caricaturists and stalls of all kinds loaded with souvenirs.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Free aftrenoon for personal purchases (possibility of going to one of the beaches close to the city centre).
Dinner in the hotel. The evening will be spent in the leisure district of Arkadia.

Day 3: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the Catacombs: these galleries dug to extract the necessary rock for the construction of Odessa, extend over several hundreds of kilometres under the city. They were alternately the dens of smugglers and of the partisans during the second world war. They also host any sorts of warehouses. Certain rooms are now museums.
Lunch in a restaurant in the old town.
Visit of the Navy museum or the Pushkin museum, the choice is open.
Transfer to the station and dinner.
Departure of the overnight train to Simferopol at the beginning of the evening.

Day 4: Simferopol - Yalta
Arrival in Simferopol early in the morning. Transfer to Yalta
Breakfast in the hotel.
Visit of the neo-Byzantine style cathedral Alexandre Nevsky, followed by the Armenian cathedral.
Walk in city, return in the hotel and check-in.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Departure for the visit of the Palace of Livadia. Located 3 km west of Yalta, Livadia is above all, the health resort which hosts the "Grand Palais", theater of the famous 1945 conference of Yalta. Nicolas II made build this beautiful palace of neo-Renaissance style in limestones of Balaklava in 1911.
Back to Yalta and visit of the cellars of Massandra for a tasting of its wines.
Dinner in the hotel.

Day 5: Yalta - Alupka
Breakfast in the hotel.
The day will begin with a small excursion on the cape Aï-Todor (10 km west of Yalta). On a overhanging cliff, towers up the swallow nest ( Lastotchkyno Gnizdo) built on order of a German oil tycoon in 1912. The visit will continue to Aloupka (15 km west of Yalta), this sea resort was the place of residence of the count Vorontsov, which made it build his palace of neo-Moorish style in volcanic rock.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Nearby, a 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.
Back to Yalta, spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 6: Yalta - Balaklava - Sevastopol
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for the picturesque town of Balaklava, enclosed in a beautiful small cove. It was the maritime base of the British during the war of Crimea, then later the base of Soviet submarines totally locked. The ruins are those of the Genoese fortress of the ancient Cembalo dating from the XVth century.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
The visit will continue towards Sevastopol, built in 1783 by the general Potemkine on order of Catherine II. Sevastopol is the icon of the war of Crimea ( 1854-55 ) and most of its monuments tell this historic fact.
Visit of the ancient Chersonese. The ruins of the former Greek city 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.
Back to Yalta, spare time and dinner in the hotel.

Day 7: Yalta - Bakhtchissaraï
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for Bakhtchissaraï. The whole day will be spent on the spot.
Located in a limestone valley of a remarkable beauty, it was formerly the main city of the powerful Khanat of Crimea from the XVth to 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. lunch in a local restaurant.
Back to Yalta and dinner in the hotel.

Day 8: Yalta - Simferopol
Breakfast in the hotel, check-out.
Transfer at the Simferopol airport, end of the stay.

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