Massandra is the historical centre of wine industry of the Crimea. The major place of interest in the settlement is the Masandra Palace of Emperor Alexander III, a monument of landscape architecture.

Massandra Park. Covers an area of 44.1 hectares. Laid out in the landscape style in the first half of the 19th c. Here grow more that 200 species of garden trees and shrubs. Along with local plants - pubescent oaks, strawberry-trees, turpentine trees, high junipers (Juniperus excelsa), Crimean pines, and butcher's-brooms - many exotics grow in the park, particularly cypresses, mammoth trees, Atlas and Himalayan cedars, bay laurels, evergreen magnolias, cryptomerias, bamboos, insignis pines, bark pines, bristlecone firs, and others.
The park consists of three sections - Upper (with the palace and park). Middle and Lower Masandra.
It is one of the most beautiful parks in the Crimea, its territory being a huge terraced amphitheatre facing the sea. There are many wonderful landscaped compositions of pines, spruces, firs, old cypresses standing near a small oval pond, as well as alleys of palms and roses.

Massandra Vinery. You should certainly try wine from the cellars of the famous Massandra Vinery. The wines of Massandra are both famous in our country and far away abroad. Today Massandra wine collection has about one million bottles. Wine-making experts claim that he who did not try Massandra wine on-the-spot, does not have a clear idea about the virtues of Crimean wine.