Near Alushta, near the southern slope of the mountain Demerdzhi have is unusual cluster of stone sculptures. It - Ghost Valley. The largest cluster of stones called "head Catherine." To view this sites which require more than one hour.

Its unusual name Valley of Ghosts received through such features: rocks scattered at the foot of the mountain at sunset cast weird shadows, like ghosts, which moved rapidly. Amazingly at this time it looks and the mountain itself - due to changes in lighting at sunset it constantly changes color. These mysterious phenomena attract tourists.

Also very impressive and the mountains themselves: everywhere scattered rocky structures of various forms that resemble faces and human figures, animals, fantasy creatures. In every rock you can see something unusual.

There the locals is a legend: in ancient times, these places Blackbeard captured the sorcerer and his entourage. All men of the neighborhood, they gathered on a mountaintop in the smithy created by them. The flame, which swelled in the smithy, dried up all the land and lakes around the ruined all nature. In the village of famine. And then a young girl, whose name was Catherine, went to the sorcerer, to ask him to leave the region. But the evil sorcerer did not hear anything, and killed her. Then God punished everyone: from the top of the mountains escaped the flames, and she swept the slopes of huge boulders that destroyed everything. According to the legend, the sculptures at the top of the mountain - it is frozen in stone the soldiers who were trying to escape from God's punishment.

More tourists are attracted by the more mundane things - there is growing the most famous of all the trees in the Crimea - a nut Nikulin, who was involved in the shooting of the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" and the stone on which she sang the song "Polar Bears" and danced Natalya Varley.

Valley of Ghosts is a natural monument of national importance.