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Yalta

   Seated in a natural vineyard-ringed amphitheater of mountains, Yalta is a dramatically handsome resort on the southern tip of Crimea. Yalta will always be a favored destination with its mild climate, lush green landscape and rugged beaches.
     The ancient homeland of the Scythians, the city gained fame as a choice 18th-century Russian retreat. Treasures also remain from the 19th-century. Vorontsov Palace, in a 100-acre park, is a remarkable piece of architecture not to be missed. Edward Blore, one of the men who designed Buckingham Palace, helped create the palace as an "English country house" on the Black Sea coast.
     In 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Livadia Palace to decide the future of Europe. The meeting became known as the Yalta conference and was probably one of the 20th Century's most important historical events.

Steep mountain peaks serve as a lovely backdrop for Yalta the jewel of the Crimean peninsula and our favorite Ukrainian city. We’re not surprised that the writer Anton Chekhov would choose to live in this seaside resort—it seems to be a combination of Carmel California the French Riviera and Greece. Yalta (pop. 80 000) has exemplary resorts museums and beaches.

Be sure to see Livadia the former Romanov vacation home (palace really) used for the World War II conference of Stalin Churchill and Roosevelt. Chekhov’s former residence has been turned into a museum; inside you’ll find the writer’s medical bag (from his days as a doctor) and the piano Rachmaninov played when he visited. Allow at least two (but preferably three) nights for relaxation. Just outside of Yalta set on a hilltop beside the ocean are the Nikitsky Botanical Gardens which boast 1 600 varieties of roses and a very good restaurant/club. Don’t miss the Swallow’s Nest a fantastical castle perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea (the castle was in fact designed for a German businessman by a U.S. architect).

We enjoy the refreshing ferry or hydrofoil ride between the resort towns along the coast. Alupka from which you can take a cable car to Mt. Ai-Petri for fabulous views and Miskhor with a beautiful beach are our favorite resorts. Special trips can be arranged to Sevastopol and Balaklava important sites in the Crimean War immortalized in the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade." Another excursion goes to Bakhchisarai a city of minarets and mosques—it was once the capital of the Crimean Khanate. While there see the magnificent palace of Khan Mengli-Girel and the Fountain of Tears which inspired Pushkin to write the poem The Fountain of Bakhchisarai.

There’s no airport in Yalta; you fly to the regional capital of Simferopol set among beautiful vineyards and orchards then take a car into the city.

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