Attractions of Foros

The rocky Sarych cape, 5 kilometers west of Foros, is the southernmost point of Ukraine and Crimea.

It is formed by the humped slope of a spur of Baidarska Yaila, which descends in the southern direction and is covered with rare wheels.

In 1898, a navigation lighthouse was built on the edge of Cape Sarych.

Currently, the southern part of the cape around the lighthouse is densely built up with private cottages, access to the water is limited.

Mount Ilyas-Kaya is the highest massif of Baidarska Yayla (682 meters). It closes the Laspin basin from the east. Translated from Crimean Tatar - Ilya's rock.

A fortified monastery was located almost at the very top of the Ilyas-Kaya mountain in the 10th-13th centuries. The rock on which the fortification is located is impregnable from the north, south and west. You can climb to its top only by a steep eastern slope. From this side, the access to the top was blocked by a line of fortress wall, made of logs on a lime solution, more than 50 meters long. Currently, it is almost completely destroyed and can be traced on the slope in the form of collapsed stones. The largest parameters of the fortress site are 300 by 100 meters.

In 1966, the church of Saint Ilya of the 9th-10th centuries was excavated on Ilyas-Kaya. It is distinguished by the original stepped composition of the internal space: the vestibule, the middle nave, and the altar are elevated one above the other, forming three levels.

Laspinskiy Pass in Crimea is the highest point of the Sevastopol-Yalta highway (335 meters).

There is a large rock on the pass named after the famous writer and talented highway engineer Mykola Garin-Mykhaylovsky, whose research and calculations were used in the construction of the road through the pass.

There is an observation deck on the rock, which offers a wonderful view of Batiliman and Laspi bays, as well as Cape Ayia.

The Laspinskiy Pass acquired great transport importance after the completion of the new Sevastopol - Yalta highway in 1972.

In 2003, a church-chapel of the Nativity of Christ was built on the pass.