🇺🇦 Ukraine
44 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Chufut-Kale, 27 km south-west of the city centre; the most famous is Livadia Palace — #257 of 8,134 worldwide — 54 km south. The oldest dated site in the circle is Qutlaq Fortress, founded c. 1 BC.
Every one of them stands in Ukraine — the country page shows the full national picture.
54 km south · Palace & château · #257 worldwide
Livadia Palace is a former summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in Livadiya, Crimea.
59 km south · Palace & château · #345 worldwide
The Vorontsov Palace or the Alupka Palace is a historic palace situated at the foot of the Crimean Mountains near the town of Alupka in Crimea.
58 km south · Castle
The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula.
46 km south-west · Fortress
Mangup also known as Mangup Kale is a historic fortress in Crimea, located on a plateau about 13 kilometres east of Sevastopol.
27 km south-west · Ruin
Chufut-Kale is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins.
28 km south-west · Palace & château
The Khan's Palace is located in the town of Bakhchysarai, Crimea. It was built in the 16th century and became home to a succession of Crimean Khans.
49 km south · Palace & château
The Massandra Palace is a Châteauesque villa of Emperor Alexander III of Russia in Massandra, at the south coast of Crimea.
57 km south · Palace & château
The Yusupov Palace is a palace located in the town of Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea.
58 km south · Palace & château
The Dulber Palace is a Moorish Revival palace designed by Nikolay Krasnov in Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea.
47 km south-west · Fortress
Eski-Kermen or Eski Kermen was a cave town and fortress in the Crimea in the south of Ukraine.
58 km south · Ruin
Charax is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in the Crimea. It was sited on a four-hectare area at the western ridge of Ai-Todor, close…
55 km south-west · Ruin
Kalamita Fortress is a military structure located in Crimea, near the mouth of the Chorna river and within the Balaklava raion.
+ 25 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
69 km east · Fortress
The Genoese fortress or Sudak fortress is a fortress in Sudak, Crimea, built by the Genoese in 13th–15th centuries.
64 km south-west · Ruin
Cembalo is the name of the Genoese fortress, built in the 14th century, which at the time gave its name to the present-day town of Balaklava in…
63 km east · Ruin
The Kutlak Fortress is a defensive fortification that existed on the slope of Mount Karaul-Oba above the Black Sea near the village of Vesele in the…
61 km south-west · Ruin
Kamara-Isar is a medieval castle of the 13th–15th century in the south-western part of Crimea.
65 km south-west · Ruin
Kala-Fatlar is the ruin of a medieval, presumably feudal, castle in the Balaklava district of Sevastopol.
63 km south · Ruin
Kastropulo is the ruins of a castle of the 13th–14th century, located on the Iphigenia rock in Kastropol on the southern coast of Crimea.
61 km south · Ruin
Merdven-Isar is the ruins of a small medieval fortress of the 12th–13th century on the summit of the same name by the cliff of the Ai-Petri Yaila,…
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q19566.
The Castlemap atlas maps 44 landmarks (3 castles · 6 fortresses · 6 palaces & châteaux · 29 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Simferopol, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Chufut-Kale, a ruin 27 km south-west of the city centre.
Livadia Palace, ranked #257 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 54 km south from Simferopol.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Qutlaq Fortress, founded c. 1 BC — 63 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Sevastopol (59 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
