Cape Cliff, who is also the Cape Plaka, located on the southern coast of Crimea, in the east of the Ayu-Dag, between the resort settlement Partenit and Alushta, on the Bay of Kuchuk Lambatskogo. Cape height - 50 m, length - 330 m.

From the Greek name of the cape "Plaka" means "flat stone". In 1947, the Cape received the status of a monument of nature. This natural original composition in the form of the fungus is very similar to the profile of a Pekinese dog breed. In ancient times it housed strengthening and lighthouse point Lambas.

Cliff Cape (Cape Plaka) consists mainly of greenish porphyry - stone of magmatic origin, which are characterized by porphyry structure. It has been estimated that during the formation of an array Utes (Plaka), the pressure of the alloy was about 1 thousand. Kg per square centimeter.

During the underwater survey areas around the Cape was found three sites with the accumulation of archaeological mother. Also among the finds were discovered fragments of pottery scattered on the bottom surface. Only one narrow-necked jugs (popular in the 9th - 11th cent.) Are found more than 60 pieces.

From the top of the cape Plaka, it offers an unusually impressive and beautiful panorama from one side to the Ayu-Dag, and all Partenit Kuchuk Lambatskuyu Bay, and on the other - on the Karabakh and Mount Castel. From the lookout you can see the Cape and Kuchuk Lambatsky stone chaos.

Another attraction of the Cape are the remains of the family crypt and the Gagarin Sterligov and a small church, made in the Byzantine-Georgian style. Especially popular with tourists is a real Gothic castle-palace, the prince Borozdin-Gagarin. The castle-palace was built in 1907 for Princess Gagarina by architect NP Krasnov. Today the building houses the administrative building of the sanatorium "Utes". Huge interest of tourists is also a sanatorium and the park, which is a unique monument of landscape art of the 19th st. If you go for a little cliff in the west, in a grove of Italian stone pines, you can see another architectural monument - the mansion princes Rayevskys in the Moorish style (now - the building of the sanatorium "Karasan").