Baydar gates
Baidar Gate
Crimea, Sevastopol
The Baydar gates were built in 1848 in honor of the completion of the construction of the Sevastopol-Yalta road. Now people drive along this road only for the sake of the Baydar Gates and a wonderful view from them to the Foros Church and the picturesque coast below it. The modern highway between Yalta and Sevastopol passes much lower, through the Laspinsky pass, where a viewing platform is arranged on a powerful rock. The rock bears the name and is decorated with a bas-relief of Garin-Mikhailovsky, a writer and a very talented travel engineer. Even a century later, his research and calculations were useful for the construction of this very road. The site offers a grandiose view of the bays of Laspi and Batiliman, Cape Aya.