Cape Aya is located on the southern shore of the Crimea, 8 km from Balaklava, and 20 km from Sevastopol. The name of the Cape received from the Greek word "Agios", which translated means "Holy".

Cape Aya is a steep ledge of the main ridge of the Crimean mountains, extending to the base of the mountain Kush-Kaya (Bird mountain). The highest point of the Cape is a mountain Cauquil Kiya (altitude 558 m). On the East of the Cape is Laspi Bay, Cape Laspi, and the tract Batiliman. West at the foot of the Fortress and the Ascetic is a small Bay, and then Cape George.

Cape Aya is formed of rocks, stacked marble-like limestone of the upper Jurassic. At the foot of the promontory there are several caves, some of which in ancient times was used by the sailors of the black sea fleet to configure and naval guns zeroing.

On the slopes of Cape Aya grow relict Mediterranean woodlands. In General, the flora of the Cape has about 500 species of plants, many of them listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The amazing beauty of this wild corner of nature give forest endemic pine Stankevich. They are covered with dark green long pine needles and a huge single cones. On the territory of the Crimean Peninsula in the form of natural woodland pine Stankevich can only be found on Cape Aya in the reserve and the New world. Another important representative of the green world of the Cape is a relict juniper high. The age of these large, Mature trees with a dense, iskluchennimi trunks, can reach up to 4 thousand years.

Cape Aya is a nature reserve of curiosities. It is home to endangered and rare species of animals. At the top of the Cape is a giant crater with spectacular coverage of huge stones, of various colours and shades: green, blue, red, dark spots and pinstripe.

Cape Aya – fantastic area, created by nature itself. Since 1982 he is the state landscape reserve.