It is obvious that Yalta is the main storehouse of all significant attractions of the Crimea. It's not for nothing that every tourist who comes here to relax strives to visit this amazing city and its surroundings in order to fully enjoy all the beauties of these places. Below are the main attractions of the Yalta surroundings, which simply cannot be deleted from the list of your tourist route.
- Swallow's Nest
The castle, located on a sheer cliff called Aurora, is built in the Gothic style. Forty meters below, the sea roars and rages, but the mini-citadel continues to calmly direct its pointed spires upward. The very sight of this architectural masterpiece fascinates and makes you hold your breath.
You can get to it along the Alupka highway, where there is a stop bearing the same name as the castle.
- Livadia Palace
The palace complex, which was once built as a residence for the Romanov royal family, is now a museum. It appears in history not only thanks to the Russian tsars, but also became the venue of the famous Yalta Conference at the beginning of the victorious year 1945 between the three leaders of the Allied states. It was here that Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed on the post-war world order.
The palace impresses with its beauty and grandeur, impressive facade and elegant decoration. Being a real architectural treasure, it attracts many guests who want to personally see these beauties and stroll through the shady alleys of the park.
You can get to the palace complex by following the address: 44A Baturina Street, stop called "Livadia Palace".
- Nikitsky Botanical Garden
This garden impresses with its diversity of representatives of the Flora world. There are mighty cork oaks next to palm trees spreading their leaves, slender cypresses and delicate lotuses swaying on the water surface of the pools, and tropical butterflies flutter over fragrant orchids. The eyes run away from the abundance and beauty of this garden, which can be visited at any time, because there is a flowerbed with flowers blooming alternately all year round.
You can find the botanical garden at Nikita settlement by stopping at the lower or upper gates of the garden.
Yalta provides tourists with a huge range of different places that anyone can visit, taking with them a piece of this southern region. wintopia