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Royal mound
From the summit of Mount Mithridates in Kerch you can see two gray hills. It is famous Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarskiy (royal) burial mounds. Inside them there are the stone vaults, silent witnesses of Pantikapei’s past glory. Both monuments were built, presumably, in the second half of IV century BC.
Tsarskiy mound is a funerary monument from the 4th century BC, 5 km from Kerch.
It belonged...
Silver Streams or simply the Silver Waterfall
A well-known sightseeing in the Crimean region of the Grand Canyon is Silver Streams or simply the Silver Waterfall.
One can reach it following the sign “Grand Canyon” on the wide road.
The waterfall is really beautiful, even in summer, when there is not so much water and very little trickles of water flowing on the bright green moss, are like silver, especially in sunny weather.
The...
Livadia Palace
In the past, in place of the current Livadia, among dense forests there were only large fields. Hence, many believe, that the name Livadia comes from here, as it is translated from the Greek as “livadion” – “meadow, a lawn”.
Location, where the Livadia is situated, has been inhabited by people long time ago. This is evidenced by the detected near Oreanda (next to Livadia) remains...
Castle Swallow’s Nest
Now back to the central ledge of Cape Ai-Todor, the Rock of Aurora. There rises “The Swallow’s Nest”, the smallest castle in Ukraine, which reminds a medieval knight’s castle. Its real history is little known. Probably, this is the reason of existence of many legends, which are twisted and are told by guides with a great pleasure and with more are listed by the tourists, and travelers...
Karadagh Nature Reserve
Long time ago, in Promethean era, along with the acquisition of fire, people were given the first laws in the form of Commandments, hallowed by myth rituals together with the names of the gods, to worship. This was the time of formation of the primitive worship at the dawn of civilization. Places, where the contact of people and gods was taking place, were marked by a special stamp in the form of...
Cave city Chufut-Calais
A place where now the village of Starosillia (formerly Salachik) is situated, has always attracted people by hidden location, coziness, tranquility and life-giving force of the valley land, availability of water and the protecting rocks from the plateau (in the form of large fish, as if swimming out of the undergrowth of mountain forests), like it is intended to shelter the villagers from uninvited...
Nikita Botanic Garden
A Russian academician Christian Christianovich Steven is the founder and first director of the Nikita Botanic Gardens. The garden was created in 1812 near the village of Nikita - hence the name.
According to the idea of the founder of the Nikita Garden “Taurian official garden will have a threefold aim:
1) if possible, a complete collection of all plants without exception in this climate,...
Yeni-Calais Fortress
Yeni-Calais or Yenikale in Crimea is a fortress on the coast of the Kerch Channel in the north-eastern city of Kerch. It was built by the Ottomans in 1699-1706.
Its name comes from the Turkish language and means “the New Fortress”.
In 1701, on the west bank of the Kerch Channel, the Turks started the erection of a new fortress to counter the Russian ships to get into the Black Sea.
The...