Travel Guide Yalta (Ялта)

28 000 inhabitants. In Turkish, «the city of gardens». The current small town is a pale remnant of the ancient capital of Crimean statues, in which all the riches of the peninsula were exposed. Crimean Tatars decided in the th century to move their capital, formerly located in Staryi Krym. Indeed, this region is too close to the coast and the invasions that could come. It is the site of Bakhtchissaraï, located inside the land, on the edge of the great Crimean canyon in a region of naked rocks, which is retained. For three centuries, the good of the courtyard of the/spread in a town of gardens and fountains. Several times destroyed the capital of litigants is rebuilt by the Tatars until the arrival of the Russians. After the last episode was leaked for Turkey in 1783, the city lost its importance. Today, it is mainly known for the Palace of the/, which has remained almost intact since the th century and the most dazzling remnant of the power of tatars sovereigns.