Through Grotto at Cape Kapchik - one of the attractions of the Crimean resort village of Novy Svet. It is a natural cave, laid on tectonic fault. The cave is 77 meters and the opening height - 17 m. Through Grotto permeates the Cape, its underground corridor connecting the two bays Novyi Svet coast - Blue and Blue.

Like many other attractions of the New World, Through the grotto was opened by Prince Lev Golitsyn. Accurate information, as it did not, but according to legend, he stumbled upon it quite by accident, while walking on the sea. Attention Prince privernuli huge caverns in the rock, pick up closer to them, Lev Golitsyn found himself in a fairy cave.

The idea, suggested by nature itself, by means of skillful hands received its embodiment in the form of a through-equipped passage through which you can get from the Blue Bay in Blue. The input aperture made under the arch, laid out a stone and put an old upholstered wrought iron door, which served as the entrance to the Through grotto.

On the other side of the cave ends with two galleries equipped with stone staircases for easy descent to the Blue bay. Outputs from the gallery in this part of the cave deepened by building two stone stairs that opened a free approach to the water. In September 1903, in a through grotto, Prince Lev Golitsyn was celebrating his birthday. Especially for this cave was built a makeshift ballroom.

Unlike other Crimean caves in form through the grotto underground water did not participate. The wedge-shaped profile and deep cracks of the cave suggest that the high underground galleries formed as a result of uneven movement of the masses of limestone Cape Kapchik several tectonic faults.

Groth was the most favorite subject for numerous excursions. But for several years because of the danger of rock falls and bat colonies visiting large through the grotto is prohibited. Now the entrance is located on the site of a lattice wrought door, renovated in the 90s. 20 Art. Through the bars, the cave can be seen completely, so everyone can get close to the door and see the extraordinary beauty of the grotto.