One of the main symbols of Feodosia - a monument of architecture and history of the Genoese fortress. Locals familiar with the fortress, and for tourists visiting Crimea is the ancient citadel in the compulsory excursion program.

The architectural appearance of Feodosia almost no Greek influence, because during the invasion of the Huns tribe of ancient Theodosia was destroyed. On the ruins of the settlement in the 13-14 centuries, there is a city that was called Kafa. The Cafe two centuries dominated by the Genoese, most of the buildings erected by the type of Italian, so for Kafa even got the name - second Genoa.

Ruins of ancient Theodosia belonged to Oran-Timur the Tartar Khan. Merchants from Genoa bought the land in 1226 and began to build on this site a citadel. In a rather short period of time Kafa was the crossroads of economic, trade routes from Europe and Asia. Kafa was known for its markets of slaves, slaves here fitted and the Italians, and in more recent times - the subjects of the Ottoman Empire.

Italian Renaissance architects were left in the city a lot of temples and palaces. There were more than a hundred mosques and churches were built about twenty thousand houses, arranged in a system of wells.

The construction of the Citadel began in 1340 on the slopes of the hill. Hill, who had the name of the quarantine was for the enemies of the first natural barrier. The main material in the construction - limestone, which was mined here, near, or in the mountains surrounding the fortress, or raised from the seabed. Along the perimeter of the fortress length - 718 meters, the walls rise to a height of 11 meters, width up to 2 m. The ancient fortress were two lines of defense: the outer, and the outer part of the citadel itself.

Most of the plants in the XIX century, was dismantled. Crisco Tower and Tower of St. Clement - a little of that has reached our days. Also, tourists can see the pylons of the gate, a fragment of the western wall, docks, a round tower and the tower of Constantine. Preserved as a Turkish bath, a bridge and a number of churches.