Things to do in Yalta
Top sights and attractions to build your days around once you know when to go.
Livadia Palace
Livadia Palace is a former summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea. The Yalta Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation – the Soviet delegation was housed in the Yusupov Palace, and the British in the Vorontsov Palace some eight kilometers distant. The palace houses a museum, and is sometimes used for international summits.
Swallow's Nest
The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high (130 ft) Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, named after St. Alexander Nevsky, is an Eastern Orthodoxy cathedral in Yalta, Crimea, built in 1902, and designed by Nikolay Krasnov.
Massandra Palace
The Massandra Palace is a Châteauesque villa of Emperor Alexander III of Russia in Massandra, at the south coast of Crimea.
Dulber
The Dulber Palace is a Moorish Revival palace designed by Nikolay Krasnov in Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea. Also known as the Palace of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaievich of Russia, Dulber Palace, is an asymmetrical architectural extravaganza with crenellated walls, silver domes, and more than 100 rooms, inspired by the Mameluk architecture of 15th-century Cairo.
White Dacha
The White Dacha is the house that Anton Chekhov had built in Yalta and in which he wrote some of his greatest work. It is now a writer's house museum.
Nikitsky Botanical Garden
Nikita Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe. It is located in Crimea, close to Yalta, by the shores of the Black Sea.
Yusupov Palace
The Yusupov Palace is a palace located in the town of Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea. It was built for Prince Felix Yusupov-Soumorokov-Elston and his wife Princess Zinaida Yusupova (1861–1939) in 1909 by Nikolay Krasnov, the architect responsible for the imperial Livadia Palace in nearby Yalta. The palace, whose style may be described as Renaissance Revival and Roman Revival, boasts a romantic park with exotic plants and a wine cellar founded by Prince Lev Galitzine in the 19th century.
Charax
Charax is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in the Crimea. It was sited on a four-hectare area at the western ridge of Ai-Todor, close to the modern tourist attraction of Swallow's Nest.
Museum of Lesya Ukrainka, Yalta
The Lesya Ukrainka Museum (Ukrainian: Музей Лесі Українки) in Yalta is a local history museum dedicated to one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, Lesya Ukrainka, who lived on the property for two years in her late twenties. In 1977, more than seventy years after her death, it became a museum dedicated to her memory, as well as a hub for Ukrainian culture and arts. Following the invasion of Crimea by the Russian Federation, its status as such is unknown.
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Saint Hripsime Church of Yalta
Saint Hripsime Church, is a working Armenian church located in Yalta on the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine and completed in 1917.
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