The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky • Simferopol (63 km.)
The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky
The Church of St. Alexander Nevsky • Simferopol (63 km.)
Today the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky - that over a century was Simferopol's main temple - is rightly considered to be one of the most beautiful and magnificent cultic buildings in Simferopol. It amazes not only with its imposing and harmonic forms, but with tough and tragic destiny that ended with temple's rebirth. The idea of building large cathedral in Simferopol to honor Saint Alexander Nev

Kebir-Jami Mosque • Simferopol (63 km.)
Kebir-Jami Mosque
Kebir-Jami Mosque • Simferopol (63 km.)
The white-stone Kebir-Jami Mosque amazes with its splendid strictness and reckons among the most notable architectural monuments, built in Crimean Khanate times, that survived on the peninsula. Built in the early 16th century, it has a title of the oldest building in Simferopol and still remains the main spiritual center for Muslims, living in Crimea. Temple's walls, made from shelly stone, were c

Nature Museum and Arboretum and Zoo Park of the Crimean Nature Reserve
You don't have to subjugate Crimean Mountains, go down in caves and work your way through dick forests, in order to closer familiarize yourself with Crimean peninsula's inimitable nature, be amazed with its richness and diversity. It's enough, if you visit the Nature Museum and the Arboretum and Zoo Park, created on the Crimean National Nature Reserve's territory. Created in 1923, Crimea's largest

The Scythian Naples • Simferopol (64 km.)
The Scythian Naples
The Scythian Naples • Simferopol (64 km.)
Situated in Simferopol's outskirts, the Scythian Naples is an archeological monument of world's significance that is recognized as one of the seven wonders of Crimea's capital. This is ancient town's ruins, on the territory of which the namesake historical and archeological complex was created. Founded in the 3d century B.C., the Scythian Naples remained the capital of the ancient Late Scythian st

The Central Museum of Tavrida • Simferopol (62 km.)
The Central Museum of Tavrida
The Central Museum of Tavrida • Simferopol (62 km.)
The best chance to learn about Crimea's centuries-old history, its inimitable nature and peculiar culture is to visit the Central Museum of Tavrida in Simferopol - one of Crimea's largest and most interesting museums. Its extensive collection includes unique archeological findings (Stone Age settlements, Copper and Bronze Age burial vaults and many other) objects of decorative and applied arts, va

The History of the Defense of the Adzhimushkay Quarry Museum
Situated in the Kerch's outskirts, Adzhimushkay Quarries are mine workings that form complex labyrinth with divided underground galleries, tunnels and corridors. Now it is a unique military and historical monument that immortalized courage of Soviet soldiers, who during the Second World War held the line against German invaders here. In spring of 1942, enemy troops invaded Kerch Peninsula's terri

Historical and Archeological Museum (Museum of Antiquity)
Kerch's Historical and Archeological Museum is one of Ukraine's oldest museums and has one of the largest collections of unique exhibits from different ages. Therefore, it rightly occupies one of the leading places among Kerch Peninsula's attractions. The Museum of Antiquity - its initial name - was founded in 1826. Due to Kerch's century long and incredibly rich history, at that time its main mis

Mount Mithridat • Kerch (248 km.)
Mount Mithridat
Mount Mithridat • Kerch (248 km.)
Mount Mithridat towers above the town for almost one hundred meters and is rightly considered to be Kerch’s main tourist attraction and its imperishable symbol. Different historical and cultural epochs interweaved in this wonderful place and left their landmarks in form of unique monuments on the mountain's slopes and at its foot. Almost 26 centuries ago one of the most ancient European towns Pant

Tsar's Burial Mound (Tsarskiy Kurghan)
The Kerch Peninsula was always famous for multitude of ancient burial mounds, however, the Tsar's Burial Mound rightly bears a title of one of the most mysterious and mind-boggling ones. This unique monument of burial architecture, built on the natural 18-meter (60 feet) high hill in the 4th century B.C., is considered to be the true masterpiece of antique architecture. Amazing with its original p
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