Baidar Gates (mountain pass) - mountain pass through the main ridge of the Crimean mountains, leading from Bajdarsky valley (called the Crimean Switzerland) on the Southern coast of Crimea. Baidar pass gate, or simply Baydarsky Pass lies between Mount Celebi (657 m) to the west and the Chu-Bair (705 m) to the east. Saddle height - 503 meters above sea level.

A pass is an old car highway Yalta - Sevastopol, were constructed from 1837 to 1848. initiated by the Governor-General of Novorossiysk Territory Count Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov. Stone arch gate was built in 1848, after construction of the road. At the bottom of a beautiful view of the open sea and a small platform on which is built in Byzantine style in sheer red rock in 1892, Foros Church.

Baidar Gate - a monument of architecture, he built the project Yalta architect Karl Ivanovich Eshlimana after the completion of the highway Yalta - Sevastopol. Gate-propylene represent a massive portico of the blocks of local limestone with a complicated cornice flankiruemy half-columns and covered with an entablature. Right and left to the portico adjacent rectangular tables of the same material, giving the monumentality of classical model building. The right pedestal has a room (about 30 square meters. M). The two observation platform located in the upper part of the Propylaea, leads a flight of stairs. With these types of sites offer a panoramic view of the form on the settlement Foros and Baidar Valley.

Before 1917 and 20 th - 30 th years of XX century in Baidar Gates had two hotels. The first - on the left of the gate, the second - the gate to the right of them over the cliff rock. Here is the post office with room for passing to the left of the gate was built by a separate pavilion restaurant. Now have Bajdarsky gate is the famous restaurant "hut».

Go around it and taking a step to safeguard the stone platform you start to soar in the air over the open sea.