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Odessa city tour
During the excursion you will visit historical places of interest of the city. Your visit will include beautiful municipal park named after Ukrainian writer T.Shevchenko, where you will see ancient vallum, stroll along pieceful streets - Pushkinska, Rishelyevska, Lenzheronivska and, of course, Deribasivska, which became unique historical and architectural monuments.
You will see masterpiece of architecture and art - famous Opera and Ballet theatre , as well as historical buildings such as Art museum, Museum of Archeology and others. Marvelous buildings, mild climate and beautiful sea made Odessa be known all over the world. You will have a possibility to stroll along the outstanding Primorskiy boulevard, where you will see the majestic palace of earl Vorontsov, the Monument to Duke De Richelieu - the founder of Odessa. You will enjoy the view of Sea Port Terminal from the upside of Potiommkinskaya Stairs. On our excursion bus you will get acquainted with old districts and streets of Odessa, will learn its history, stories, and legends.
Odessa Art Museums
Odessa Art Museum is situated in ancient palace of Pototskie generarion with wonderful collection of masterpieces of art, graffics, sculpture, ancient icons, works of outstanding Russian portrait painters. You will find there the golden fund of art gallery - paintings of Ayvazovskiy, Kostandi, Kuindzhy, Vereshchagin, Vrubel and others.
In Museum of western and oriental art you will see great number of masterpieces of Italian painters Michelandzhelo da Karavadzho, Alessandro Manyasko, Franchesco Gvardi, Bernardo Belotto,and also expositions of Flemish and Dutch art and a lot of other paintings of the world painters.
Criminal Odessa
On this excursion you'll find out about mysteries and legends involving first smugglers and gangsters of the city. From the first days of its foundation Odessa had been accepting all kinds of shady people because of its need of manpower for town-planning and construction works. So in the guise of such "builders" and "workers" thieves like Emmanuel Bernanstelli, Mishka Yaponchik, Sonya "Golden Hand" and others come and lived here. We will tell you how city authorities tried to fight a crime.
Odessa cathedrals
During bus excursion we will tell you about birth, annihilation and revival of Odessa churches, history of Odessa relics, art of modern icon-painters and many others. For a long time Odessa has been centre of pilgrimage, leading to relics of Palestine, Rome, Constantinople, Sinai, Athos. You will visit churches of different religious confessions. You will visit Holy- Uspanskiy fiary, founded in 1824. Here ecclesiastical seminary is located, where now about 700 seminarians are being taught. Visit reconstructed in 1998 church of Holy Mary Magdalene, Spaso- Preobrajensky cathedral, Greek Svyato- Troizkaya church, Church of Holy George (Armenian church), Arkhangelo- Mikhaylovsky convent.
Odessa catacombs and Museum of Partisan Glory
Odessa underground tunnels (catacombs) were created nearly 200 years ago during mining of building materials that were used to build the city. Currently it is the maze of 2,500 kilometers with hundreds of entrances, exits, caves, and tunnels. During the World War II, in 1941, when German and Romanian army occupied Odessa during the war, the Soviet Military headquarters gave the order to organize the partisan resistance. And Odessa catacombs were chosen as the camp for the unit of partisans. The provisions and weapons was enough there so the unit could stay underground for half a year. The partisan unit was fighting with nazi and Romanian army during all the period of occupation. You'll walk in underground tunnels, where conditions of partisan camp are reconstructed and will listen to the history of struggle.
Belgorod-Dnestrovski Fort and wine testing in Shabo
Belgorod-Dnestrovski is located 80 kilometers off Odessa. It was founded in th 6th century (1400 years ago), and is the same ancient as Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. During its long history the fort was occupied by Huns, Bulgarians, Tatars, Moldovans, Romanians, and Turks. The Belgorod Dnestrovski Fort occupies around 1.5 miles, and is one of the most ancient and valuable masterpiece of ancient architecture. The Fort as you will see it, was built to defend the Moldova Kingdom of invasion of Turks Empire army. In the left of entrance to the fort, there is a Prison tower, that had metallic ring pasted in the wall to hold the chain that prisoners were chained to. At the left side of the fort there is Management Tower, The headquarters of Fort garrison. The third tower, located at the opposite side, and connected by the wall with Prison Tower, was used as Treasury tower, but, unfortunately, nowadays you can see just part of it. At the North wall of the Citadel, between two towers, you will see the ruins of ceramic water supply system and water pull for keeping the fresh water. The Main Gates at the entrance to the Fort is one more masterpiece of ancient architecture. It has the wood suspension bridge that could be hang on in case of enemy attack. This is just a part of what you can see and hear about this ancient and vast place that combined many cultures and eras.
Shabo is ancient cellars of 10 000 sqare meters. Huge storehouses are located on three levels: zero level, 5 meters-under level and 9 meters-under level. A special attention should be paid to unique Herris cellar. Dry Herris is rare wine. In Shabo the secrets of its creating are passed across the generations. Very famous is so-called "Royal cellar" which was created by French settlers more than 200 years ago.
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