Kachi-Kalon
Cave Monastery and medieval settlement Kachi-Kalon are located on the right bank of the river Kacha, about 8 km south of Bakhchisaray. Rock of Kachi-Kalon resembles a ship, on the bow of which you can see the image of a huge cross. This explains the name of the array - «crusader». Kachi-Kalon is considered the most mysterious of all Crimean «cave cities». This monument is virtually unexplored by archaeologists, with the exception of intelligence services, carried out in 1930 and 1933. Probably, rural settlements appeared here in the early Middle Ages. The most active construction of temples, houses and business premises accounted for VIII-IX centuries. Later (probably in the 13th-15th centuries), a monastery was founded in the settlement. Kachi-Kalon is surprising for its greatness and grandeur creation of nature, which truly deserves the name of a temple, but was raised by nature.