Before you book a cheap hotel in Yalta or a cruise resort in the Black Sea, here is the perfect way to return in time to the old charm of Yalta’s charm, the highest resort city of Crimea.
This small town on the southeastern coast of the Crimean peninsula, which is part of the Ukrainian region, is now the center of the resort area of the Crimea with rides of mild climate and the waters of the Black Sea basin from the ascending mountains behind. In the Russian consciousness, his name is inextricably linked with the writer Anton Chekhov, who came here to live in the late 1890s.
Since time immemorial there have been settlements in Yalta. In the fifth century BC, when Pericles ruled Athens, the Greeks created a small colony, Yalita froze here, and name variations were used by those who came later. When the Crusaders marched on Oruent in the Middle Ages, this place fell into the hands of the Genoese, who built a small fortress named Gialita, later captured by the Turks and called Jalita. In 1783, Russia defeated the Turks in the Crimea, and the name Yalta first appeared on the maps of the Russian Empire. At that time there were only eighteen houses.
Half a century later, in 1838, the Governor-General of Ukraine and Moldova, Prince Mikhail Vorontsov, provided Yalta with his city charter. Prince Michael was an exceptional figure: he was educated in London, where his father was a Russian ambassador, and joined the Russian army in 1803, winning a rejection of his bravery and military leadership during the war of 1812 against Napoleon. As governor-general of the south of Russia, he did a lot for the revival of viticulture and winemaking, which flourished under the Greeks there.
When the royal family appropriated a large plot of land to the west of the city, about 740 cells, Yalta immediately became popular. The mild climate, light rain and plenty of sunshine especially attracted the sick and convalescent, and by the end of the nineteenth century there were about 10,000 permanent residents in Yalta, although at least twice as many people came every year just to enjoy. Chekhov not without irony, he pointed to “two of the most visible of Yalta’s clever crowd: middle-aged women dressed as young women, and a large number of generals ...”
The writer himself moved to the city in 1989 and wrote there his plays The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904) and several famous short stories. Yalta suffered a terrible earthquake in June 1927, after which World War II was killed when Soviet troops retreated from the Crimea in 19941 and returned the peninsula in the spring of 1944. Along the coast to the west of the city center is Livadia, the royal enclave that helped make Yalta so popular in the last century. Here at Alexsander III was built the summer palace, designed by Monighetti, where he died in 1894. A real white palace, standing in a magnificent park, famous for its 1000 years old oak, is the restoration of Krasnov for Nicholas II in 1910 - 1911. It is here Yalta Conference The Big Three took place in February 1945, when Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin discussed the future of Europe after the inevitable defeat of Germany and reached an agreement on the establishment of the United Nations. The palace is now a museum, and in the spacious hall there is still a round table at which allied leaders convened. In the east along the coast is the wine-making center of Massandra, famous for its port wine. Founded more than 150 years, it concerns both time-tested traditional methods and the latest scientific methods - it has its own research center - for the production of its fine enriched wines. Also close to the city center are the medieval Armenian church and the palace of the emir of Bukhara, built in 1903 in the Moorish style.
Moving further from Yalta, you can see the beautiful mountains and valleys of the Crimea. On the way to the airport, the Uchan-su waterfall passes, almost a 100-meter (300 feet) drop and surprising after heavy rains, and then the northeastern edge of the Ai-Petri plateau is dotted with numerous caves, some of which were considered to be 400 meters deep (1280 feet) . The most beautiful of all is the route through the Belbek valley, where traces of the Mesolithic settlements dot the steep mountain slopes, and the overhanging cliffs lead out into a narrow gorge called the “Belbek Gate”. About 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the north is Bakhchisarai, the City of Gardens, which for many centuries was the capital of the Crimea; here are the old monasteries and temples, and the palace, now a museum, once praised the poets.
Modern Yalta resort - has 140,000 people. The number has quadrupled in the summer when visitors come to 11 fashionable hotels and 144 sanatoriums for people with certain lung diseases. Two beaches in Yalta were awarded the Blue Flag in May 2010 by the Commonwealth of Independent States. Most tourists here are former Soviet citizens, while foreigners are mostly from Europe and the United States. In the evenings, the crowded embankment, stretching for several kilometers on either side of the city, serves as a place for gathering and talking to see and see. The city has a cinema, a drama theater, many restaurants, a seven-day open-air market and Chekhov Museum ,
