Nikita Botanical Garden

Getting Out ​​of Sevastopol  
- From Central bus station buses leave the direction of Sevastopol - Yalta.   Travel time - 1 hour 40 minutes.   Then - see "From Yalta by taxi."   - From the motorway follow the Sevastopol to Yalta M18. Distance - 86 kilometers.   Then - see "IzYalty on the car."  
From Yalta  
- From the clothing market, located in the center of Yalta, sent a shuttle bus № 34,45.   Need to go off at "Lower Colonnade of Nikita Botanical Gardens."  
- Take the M18 highway to the front arches Nikita Garden, follow the fence down by Nikita garden to the front entrance.   Distance - 16 kilometers.  
- The machine can be left in the parking lot at the lower entrance to the park.  

Nikita Botanical Gardens - a magnificent park and at the same time, the oldest scientific institution of the Crimea.   The garden was founded in 1812 by Russian scientist  Steven XX  Swedish origin with the support of the governor-general of the Novorossiysk Territory of the Duke of Richelieu.  

Nikita Botanical Garden  
Tel.   +38 0654 335530,335386  
Opening hours: from 8.00 to 17.00  
summer - from 8.00 to 18.00

Tour of Nikita garden  from  the top  of the park,  broken at the end of the XIX century.   Along the alleys artfully decorated grow plants imported from all over the Earth.   In the rose garden of the park, where a unique collection of two thousand species of roses bloom in the summer of delicious roses, some sort of withdrawn breeders Nikita garden.  

Going down the hill, you will go to the entrance to  Lower Park  - the oldest part of the botanical garden.   It grows a lot of heat-loving plants: palms, kaki, banana Basio and many others.  

Outside the Botanical Gardens, close to the sea, is located  cactus greenhouse.   To get it, you need to get out of the Lower Park and down the stairs - the road to the greenhouse marked signs. In a small greenhouse, greenhouse under one roof,  huge collection of cacti  of various, sometimes unexpected, shapes and sizes.  

On the hillside, down to the sea, are  Seaside Park,  founded c. 100-year anniversary of the garden, and  park Montedor.   Here is the mild climate, so many subtropical plants have been planted.   In the guided tour, these parks are not usually included, but you can visit them yourself.  

Each autumn, the Nikitsky botanical garden is  Chrysanthemum.   This bright holiday lasts about two weeks here at the same time flourishing melting more than 300 different species of chrysanthemum.

In the company store to buy Nikita garden planting material (seeds and seedlings), as well as essential oils, books on gardening, gifts.  

On the territory of the Nikita Botanical Garden works degusgatsion-ny in the hall.   It hosts traditional wine tasting (Crimean wines, liquors and balms), as well as tasting exotic fruits, where you can try eizifusy, figs, kiwi, pineapple guava, olives, peaches, almonds, cherry plums (fresh or canned).   Duration tasting for 30-40 minutes.

Tasting room  
Tel.   +38 0654 335519, +38 0501512111  
Opening hours: Summer 10.00 to 18.00,  
From January to March - Friday, Saturday,  
Sunday  

In the botanical garden were taken kinoskazki known.   "The Adventures of Pinocchio" in the territory of the Lower House of the park are Malvina (gazebo), as well as the famous pond turtles tortilla from the bottom of which was raised by a golden key.