It is a composite monument of nature (1947) in Simeiz, which in 1984 was promoted to the rank of the monument of nature of national importance. The whimsical shape of the mountain corresponds to its name: peering into it, one can guess "the head", as if dropped on the shore, higher, along the mountainside, - 260-meters long arched "back", then - "tail" of the gigantic cat.Not far from it, another original in shape limestone rocks are scattered: Diva, taken a step into the sea, the remains of broken by the storm Monk, Panea, Swan Wing. Myths and legends are connected with some of these rocks. On the mountain-sides of Cat there is a real museum of relief forms: stone chaoses alternate with tremendous peaks and towers, abundant karst hollows. Into the heart of the massive extends a 80-meters deep karst shaft. And over this geological basis, like an emerald cloth, relic light forests spread over. In this natural botanical garden tall juniper, strawberry-tree, Crimean pine-tree, Pontian butcher's boom, rock rose, pistachio-tree, entered in The Red Book, grow. Cat-Mountain is the only habitat of thyme-leaved in the CIS. 16 species of the local plants are entered in Red Books.
