Yalta, Ukraine

With its warm sub tropical climate Yalta has always been popular with the ruling elite of Russia. Surrounded by mountains, vineyards and orchards Yalta was the favourite holiday home for Czar Nicholas and his family. Later the city was written into the history books as the site for the historic Conference between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in 1945 when the post war map of Europe was decided.

Yalta lies between the gently curving shore of Yalta Bay and the Yuzhnoberezhnoe shosse, the highway which forms a winding ring road round the edge of town, one or two kilometers up from the bay. The centre of everyday town life is around and back from the mouth of the little Bystraya River; the centre of visitor life is the seafront promenade, stretching west from the Bystraya. Visit Levadia Palace scene of the famous Conference, Massandra Palace summer home to Czar Nicholas and the Chekhov residence where the famous writer spent his last days and wrote the'Cherry Orchard'. Also worth seeing are the Nikitski Botanical Gardens and Crimean Parks and Palaces.

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