Monday 20 July 2009

Travel to Crimea, ancient Chersonesos

Chersonesos town-museum is located on the shore of the Black Sea, right on the water,
and is a cross between Sevastopol and Balaklava. This is one of the most remarkable and beautiful places in Crimea. Not too crawded with tourists, possibly because of poor advertisment and difficulty to find (it impossible to find this place on a map or looking for road signs, only local people can advise) the place itself is amazing.
Greek word "Chersonesos" means "peninsula", and exactly describes the place on which the colony was founded about 2500 years ago . Kiev kniaz Vladimir the Great was baptized here in 988, and from this town Christianity was spread to all Kiev Rus (Contemporary Ukraine, Russia and Belarus)
Huge territory of peninsula with preserved streets and partially excavated buildings, greek columns and temples, military walls , gates, and stronghold.
The defensive wall is hundreds of meters long. Buildings include Roman amphitheatre and a Greek temples.
So it was a great pleasure for us to walk among abandoned and half-destroyed streets inspite of incredible heat (+35 C).
But do not hope to have a good meal near this place, you can find only coca-cola bottle and nothing more, this is usual situation for Ukraine, where tourism is not developed at all.

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