A significant number of attractions Crimea hidden in the thickets of Bear Mountain. It is as if strewn with traces of antiquity. One of them - or Fortress Isar Gorzuvity Gorzuvity.

The ruins of the fortress have survived to this day, and rest peacefully on the famous rock Dzhenevez-Kai. As soon as the castle has not been used at different times Gorzuvity: to serve the Byzantine coastal fortifications in the VI-VIII centuries, feudal castle in the XIII century, the Genoese trading settlements from the end of XIV to the XV century and in the XVII century - a bastion of Turkish guard.

The history of the famous resort Gurzuf it originates from the base of the fortress Gorzuvity. One and a half millennia ago about the newly rebuilt settlement hubbub of the port; near Bear Mountain crowded houses of the first settlers Isar Gorzuvity.

At the time, the fortress Gorzuvity gave shelter to the Genoese, brands, Greeks, Goths and Khazars. This bastion in the XIV century was virtually razed to the ground. Although the castle was restored then, a century later, it was finally destroyed by the Turks. Locals used the stones that remained from it, are currently building homes.

The ruins were once a fortress and gave shelter and protection to many people these days are on the territory of "Artek" - an international children's camp. And not far from the Isar Gorzuvity built hotel "Rock."