Crimean Peninsula

Crimea is a country of striking beauty - rolling, fertile countryside, with fruit farms and vineyards in the centre give way to the forested gorges and rocky escarpments of the mountains as you travel south towards the beaches of the Black Sea. And below the Yaila Mountains is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful coastlines in the world.
 
The Crimean coast lies on the far side of the Black Sea from Turkey. Stunning mountain scenery, warm sea and a long season of summer sunshine have made the Crimean coastline the Riviera for Ukrainians and Russians since the time of the tsars.
 
The Russian and Ukrainian name for Crimea is Krym – pronounced like “cream”. And it really is the cream as a holiday destination. Yalta, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Sudak – the rich history of these Crimean cities is still alive today in its fabulous palaces and historic sites and in the culture.

    


Crimea

The Russian and Ukrainian name for Crimea is Krym – pronounced like “cream”. And it really is the cream as a holiday destination. Yalta, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Sudak – the rich history of these Crimean cities is still alive today in its fabulous palaces and historic sites and in the culture. Name of the capital of Crimea, Simferopol, translated from Greek, is the City of Benefit, or City of the Gatherer.
 

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