Partenit - urban village, located on the southern coast of the Crimea in the western part of the resort Big Alushta.
The village was founded in VIII century. Official status Partenit received from 1963. Its area is 8.64 km ². Population - 6061 persons.
In Partenit of the events described in the dramatic scene of Lesya Ukrainian "Iphigenia in Tavrida" from the series "Crimean reviews."
There are monuments to urban landscape art: "Karasan" (the first half. XIX c.) - Area of 18 hectares, 220 species of relict plants, but visits by outsiders since 2009 is limited; Park rest home "Ayvazovskoe "(reconstruction of the 2000s), natural monument Ayu-Dag. Tourists can pardon eye examining architectural monuments such as: estate Rayevskys (80-ies of the XIX century.) - In the park Karasan; Minaret Mosque (XVIII-XIX c.).