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History and culture

Viking Park

The first in Russia and the largest in Europe cultural and historical centre dedicated to the Viking era of the VIII-XI centuries, is located in the valley of the Red Caves.

Tarkhankut Lighthouse

The lighthouse is located on the westmost point of Crimea - Cape Tarkhankut. The most convenient way to it goes from Chernomorskoyeh town via the village of Olenevka.

Specialties of Local Cuisine, or What You Should Definitely Try in Crimea

Travelling without tasting local cuisine? No, it cannot be complete. Everywhere local dishes reveal in the best way ethnic colouring - habits and likings, tastes and flavours. And Crimea is no exception. Here you can and should try the traditional dishes of various peoples, inhabiting the peninsula.

Kalinovsky Park-Reserve

The regional natural park near the village of Kalinovka occupies twelve thousand hectares of the Prisivash lowland and stretches to the waters of the Sivash Bay.

Natural Crimea: the best places to camp out on vacations

The silence and lack of urban bustle, the whisper of the gentle sea, colorful sunsets and sunrises, beautiful landscapes of mountain ranges, the relief curves of the coves and bays, evenings with a guitar around the campfire, night swim in the reflection of the moon, hunting for crabs and shellfish pilaf…

Rest in Crimea 2019: everything a tourist needs to know

The black sea pearl – the Peninsula of Crimea - has always been a popular summer holiday destination for Russians. Prolific climate, warm sea, a variety of natural landscapes and famous sightseeing attract millions of tourists every year.

Spa and wellness

Climatotherapy

There are places on our planet where simply spending time there in blissful indolence is beneficial. Crimea is one such place.

The Sun Trail: A path where tsars walked

The Sun Trail, also known as the Tsar’s Trail, has several paths which run to other attractions in Greater Yalta, for example, down to the foot of The Swallow’s Nest or up to the newly-built Archistratigus Michael Chapel.

Spa and wellness

Botkinskaya Trail: Health and happiness in every step

The Botkinskaya Trail starts at the most enchanted spot in Yalta, where Skazka (Fairytale) Zoo meets the Polyana Skazok (Fairytale Meadow) Museum and a hotel of the same name surrounded by Yalta’s amphitheatre of hills.

Spa and wellness

Crimea’s therapeutic mud and silted estuaries

Mud baths, wraps and applications are especially useful for treating disorders of the musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, digestion, genitourinary and gynaecological systems, as well as skin conditions.

Spa and wellness

The Golitsyn Trail: The wonders of Novy Svet

The most spectacular part of the Golitsyn Trail is the initial stretch. Stonemasons cut a horizontal trail into the rock above the sea. If you look down, you see a precipice into the sea, and if you look up, you see a precipice into the sky.

Fun for children

Children’s health treatments at Crimean resorts

At present, Crimea has 19 health resorts for children and parents with children, which specialise in different treatments.

Always a good vintage: Why you should go on a wine tour of Crimea

Not a completely new form of travel, enotourism is becoming increasingly fashionable and popular.

The world in miniature. It's all about Crimean nature

With a unique combination of the sea, the mountains and a beneficial climate, Crimea is a great place to live and work. Nature here is so diverse that the peninsula is often described as the world in miniature.

Kapchik

Kapchik is located to the South-West of the Cape Flat, on the slope of which passes Golitsyn trail. This is a former coral reef resembling a 300-meter lizard.

Lost in the mountains: Crimean cave monasteries

Opuk Nature Reserve: Martian lake with tulips in bloom

Artek: The land of idyllic childhood

Generalskiye beaches: The Coast of a Thousand Bays

Spring blossoms