Ai Todor. City of Yalta

Ay-Todor (Ukr. Ay-Todor, from the Greek). уγιος Toντορ is a cape in the south of Crimea, 8.5 km southwest of Yalta. Yalta Bay closes from the west. The name Ai-Todor means in Greek “Saint Fedor”.

Cape Ai-Todor consists of three rocky spurs, forming an almost inaccessible massif from the sea. On one of the spurs, the Aurorina Rock, there is the famous Swallow's Nest Palace, built in the pseudo-Gothic style in the early XX century. The most picturesque central spur of the Ai-Todor cape. In the early Middle Ages, the monastery of St. Fedor stood here, which gave the name to the cape. Only a small bay with a beach represents the only convenient pier. Therefore, the left (eastern) spur of the cape is called Limen-Burun (from the Crimean Tatar "cape of the harbor"). With an average annual rainfall of less than 400 mm per year, Cape Sarych, along with Cape Ai-Todor, is one of the driest places on the southern coast of Crimea. At Cape Ai Todor there is no fresh water. It is supplied here by water supply from sources on Ai-Petri. The remains of the Roman military camp Harax, which existed in the I-III centuries, have been preserved. In 1835, with the participation of the commander-in-chief of the Black Sea Fleet M. P. Lazarev, the Ai-Todor lighthouse was founded on the southernmost spur of the cape, which operates to the present time and is one of the oldest lighthouses of the Black Sea.