Excursions in Odessa
Got tired of just sprawling on the beach, sunbathing and swimming? Want new impressions and emotions? Got a wish to boast of interesting and beautiful photos in front of your friends? Set forward to exciting excursions through Odessa! You just need to decide what attracts you more and what exactly you'd like to take a look at, and the rest we'll take care of. A sightseeing guided tour «The Black Sea Pearl» and a walking tour «Old Odessa». You will visit the downtown, Arcadia, the Big Fountain, the French Boulevard (there are recreation centers and health spas, the Botanic garden, the champagne factory, the film studio), Shevchenko's avenue, Pushkin's street, the Custom house square, the marine passenger terminal, vintage streets and other remarkable sites of our city. You will take a walk along walking blocks of the city: the Opera Theater, the Philharmonic Hall, the City Duma, the palace of count M. Vorontsov, the Theater and Cathedral squares, theaters, museums, the Italian patio, Palais Royale, the City garden.
- Literary Odessa
During the tour you will be learn about eminent people, who lived and created in Odessa. They include: Anna Akhmatova, Valentin Kataev, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin, Konstantin Paustovsky, Alexander Grin, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Roman Kartsev, etc. The tour ends with the visit of the Museum of Literature and the Patio of Literature with its famous sculptures: «Fisherwoman Sonya», «Rabinovich», «Odessa's postman», «Zhvanetsky with a briefcase», «Scow full of mullets», «Antilope Gnu», etc. - Criminal Odessa
The acquaintance with Odessa's dark past. During the tour you will visit the custom house, Shevchenko's park (the vallum) and the Quarantine harbor, «Chumka» («The Plague Mountain»), a famous district «Moldavanka» and will definitely go along the Myasoedovskaya street. Odessa was an arena of legendary thieves and swindlers, such as: Son'ka Zolotaya Ruchka (The Golden Hand) – an unrivaled pickpocket woman, Leva Zadov – the head of Makhno's secret service, Nyuma Kotov and many other personalities, famous and not. - Odessa's Churches
You will learn about the birth, destruction and rebirth of many Odessa's churches, hear the history of Odessa's relics. You will see the Cathedral of the Assumption, where there is Kasperovskaya miracle-working icon of the Mother of God, the Holy Assumption Monastery and the seminary, St. Michael's nunnery, Savior's Transfiguration Cathedral of Odessa, as well as temples and churches of different religions: the Synagogue, the Polish Roman Catholic church, the Greek Church and the Arab culture center. - Musical Odessa
You will learn about the theater life of Odessa, about the history of creation and creative life of the Russian Drama Theater, Ukranian Drama Theater, Musical Comedy Theater, and, of course, the most beautiful theaters of the world – the Opera and Ballet Theater, built according to the project of Viennese architects Felner and Gelmer, the hall of which amazes by its unprecedented luxury and beauty, and the stage of which the best voices sounded from. - Odessa Catacombs
Subterranean labyrinths of the Odessa catacombs go under whole Odessa and have numerous exits to the sea. You will go down into a unique underground museum, connected with the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War; learn about the occupation period of Odessa and the activities of outstanding intelligence officer Vladimir Molodtsov-Badaev; hear about the partisans' underground, the role of Soviet partisans in the Resistance movement, the history of creation of the Partisan Glory museum in the Odessa catacombs. - The Black Sea Cossacks
The tour sequence is the following: The Primorsky Boulevard (Seafront) – Voenny Spusk (army descent) – Peresyp' (barrier beach) the place of the most close-together living of cossacks) – Luzanovka with a legendary leader Semen Paliy – Frunze – Duke's Park – Gradonachalnitskaya str.- Kirov's public gardens (a monument to Golovaty) – B. Khmelnitsky's str. (a monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky) . You will also see memorable grave of Cossacks in the Transfiguration park. - Odessa Palaces
You will see such architectural monuments, like: the first Odessa Exchange, the «Londonskaya» hotel, Vorontsov's palace, the House-Wall, Baron Mas' palace, the palace-manor of the Tolstoy family, the house of barons Falz-Fein («the house with telamons»), Shah's palace, the mansion of the Naryshkin-Pototskiy family (Arts museum with a subterranean grotto). The tour will start at the Duma square: from Primorsky boulevard to Vorontsov's palace, from Sabaneyev's to Mother-in-law's bridge, through the part of vintage Odessa to Shah's palace and then to the Arts museum building. - A guided tour to Belgorod-Dnestrovsky
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky belongs to the world's ten oldest cities. It is situated at the picturesque bank of the Dniester firth in 80 km from Odessa. Its history started in the 6th century B.C. That is the place where there was founded Tira - the ancient Greek city. Since then dozens of nations have changed, contributing to the development of the city. Unique Belgorod-Dnestrovskaya fortress is the most valuable monument of the ancient architecture.
























