Yalta

   The sun-lit Yalta is the enchanting city with a classical charm of the sea resort. Yalta is the best place where one would want to escape from the city fuss. Yalta is built around a perfect bay, backed by the rugged Ai-Petri Mountains and with lush vegetation and vineyards all around. It also enjoys more sunny days a year than Nice, and still has a certain old-fashioned charm, and the Black Sea is every bit as blue as it has always been. Yalta is beautiful in every season: it is sunny and cool, green-shaded and free-spirited; sea gulls are crying and small yachts together with big ships are breaking the waves. The famous Livadia Palace – three km west of Yalta, built in 1911 as à summer residence for Nicholas II, it replaced earlier royal dwellings. It' s built in Italian Renaissance style with pretty Florentine and Arabic courtyards. It was in this palace that in February 1945 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill held their Yalta Conference in this palace. The palace is located in the Livadia Park, which is one of the oldest and best landscape parks in Crimea.

Swallow’s Nest – is a fairy-tale castle, the glory of a million postcards, perched at the top of a sheer cliff on Ai-Todor, about 10 km west of Yalta, Built in 1912 for Baron Steingel, a German oil magnate, now it’s an Italian restaurant.