Attractions of Odesa region

Ecopark "Kartal" was inaugurated in the Danube region in 2017 at the initiative of the Center for Regional Studies.

The park with an area of ​​about 100 hectares was located on the shore of Lake Kartal near the village of Orlivka, Izmail district. The main goal of the project is to effectively use the floodplains of the Danube - parts of the river valleys that are flooded during floods or floods, as well as the restoration of the water buffalo population, which is rare in Ukraine.

A herd of Asian water buffaloes imported from Transcarpathia was kept here for free grazing. For the convenience of visitors, a wooden path with a total length of 230 meters was laid on the territory of the ecopark.

However, during the abnormal drought of 2020, the exotic animals almost died of starvation, after which the buffaloes were evacuated from Orlivka. Soon, the "Kartal" ecopark, which at that time had managed to become the most famous and most successful tourist facility in the Reni community, also closed down.

Medieval Akkerman Fortress on the banks of the Dniester estuary - one of the largest and best preserved in Ukraine.

Built on the site of the ancient city of Thira (archeological excavations are underway). Until the 10th century, there were probably fortifications of Slavic tribes of Tiverts and Ulychi.

The building of the citadel belongs to the Genoese period of XIII-XIV centuries. The main fortifications of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi fortress were built during the Moldavian rule (XV century). The total length of the walls is 2 km. Height of walls and towers from 5 to 15 m. 26 of 34 towers have survived.

In 1484 the fortress came under the rule of Turkey, a mosque was built (the minaret is preserved). In 1789 the town of Akkerman was taken without a fight by the Don Cossacks of Matviy Platov together with the Buz Cossacks sent by Prince Potomkin-Tavriysky.

At present, the Akkerman Fortress architectural complex is managed by the Fortress utility company. An exposition of instruments of torture was opened on the territory, siege weapons were displayed in the yard. Music festivals and historical fencing championships are held.

Monument to Armand Emmanuel du Plessi, Duke de Rishelye, who was one of the most popular Odesa mayors.

The Duke de Rishelye, a Frenchman by birth, emigrated to Russia after the Great French Revolution of 1789. In 1790, he participated in the capture of Izmail, in 1803 he was appointed the city of Odesa, and then the governor-general of Novorossiya.

Richelieu began to be called Emmanuel Yosypovych. For him, Odesa received a temporary exemption from taxes and was actively built.

When the Bourbons returned to power in France in 1814, the duke left for his homeland, donating all his property to the Odesa Rishelye Lyceum.

After his death in 1822, fundraising began, and in 1828 a monument to Duke Rishelye was erected. Sculptor Ivan Martos created the duke dressed in a Roman toga with a scroll in his hand and three brass bas-reliefs symbolizing agriculture, trade and justice. Today it is the most famous symbol of Odesa.

Pranksters recommend looking at Duke from the water hatch to the left of the monument. From this angle, the scroll in Duke Rishelye's hand looks very ambiguous.

Odesa cognac plant is the oldest enterprise of the industry in Ukraine.

Founded in 1863 by the South Russian Society "Black Sea Winery". Later, the factory was bought by the Shustov family of famous industrialists.

At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Shustov's cognac won first place, thus earning the right to be called "cognac".

Currently, PJSC "Odesa Cognac Factory" produces 16 varieties of cognacs, starting from the ordinary "Desna" and ending with collector's ones - "Yuvileynyi", "Odesa", "Kyiv", "Zoloty Duke".

In 2013, the Mykola Shustov Cognac Museum was opened, which recreates the atmosphere of ancient cognac cellars. The museum includes several "caisson" halls: three exhibition and tasting halls, a cinema, a hall of changing exhibitions.

In particular, a copy of a copper Charente alembic for alcohol smoking from the end of the 19th century by the French firm Prulho, a full-size model of a pre-revolutionary conca, as well as a bottle of Shustov cognac from 1900, which won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris, are presented.

A tour of the museum includes part of the production (blending workshop and alcohol aging workshop), a visit to the old cellars, as well as a tasting of the best "Shustov" cognacs.

Fixed tour times: 10.00, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00 and 18.00

The center of ethnographic, green, rural tourism and family recreation "Frumushika-Nova" is an open-air museum known as "Bessarabian village".

The construction of the Frumushika-Nova farm began in the summer of 2006 on the site of the Moldavian villages of Frumushika-Nova and Roshiya, which were evicted in the spring of 1946 due to the creation of a military training ground.

The "Frumushika-Nova" complex includes stylized national ethnographic estates built around a production base - a modern sheep complex (one of the largest sheep farms in Europe for breeding Karakul sheep). Nearby there are 10 holiday cottages that meet modern European requirements. The complex also has a Bessarabian restaurant and its own wine cellar with a mini-museum of Bessarabian viticulture. There is a picturesque lake with swans and wild geese, and enclosures with local animals: wild boars and other animals, a large pheasantry was built for 1000 pheasants and quails, there is a farm for ponies and donkeys, on which you can ride if you wish.

On the territory of "Frumushika-Nova" there is the largest monument "Chaban" in the world, entered in the Guinness Book of Records, as well as in the National Register of Records of Ukraine. The height of the monument is 16 meters 43 centimeters (17.93 with the pedestal), and the weight of the monument is 1080 tons.

"Kolonist" winery in Krynychne near Bolhrad was founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Ivan Plachkov, former minister of fuel and energy.

The production of Bessarabian wines was established here according to classical technology on modern equipment. The company owns 21 hectares of young vineyards and 60 hectares of vineyards about 35 years old.

"Kolonist" winery annually produces about 130,000 bottles of 10 types of wine. There is a wine center with a tasting room, where you can taste the wines of the entire line of the "Colonist" brand: Chardonnay, Sukholimanske, Traminer, Aligote, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Cabernet dessert, Cabernet dry, Merlot, Odesa black dry, Odesa black dessert, Odesa black seasoned

The Ananiv Historical and Art Museum was opened on November 6, 1977 on the main street of Ananiv as a branch of the Odesa Art Museum.

The building, which houses the museum, was built in the 80s of the XIX century. Before the Bolshevik coup of 1917, it was one of the most profitable houses.

The museum's exposition presents works by local artists - Rostyslav Paletsky, Pavlo Lyakhovsky, Heorhiy Byelal and others. The pearl of the exposition is a painting by the famous battle artist Yevhen Stolytsya, a student of Hennadiy Ladyzhensky, Mykhaylo Klodt, and Arkhip Kuyindzhi. During the opening of the museum, 3 halls with unique materials about the artist's life were set aside for the permanent exhibition of the works of Academician of Painting Yevhen Stolytsya.

Three more halls of the museum are devoted to the local history and history of Ananiv and the district - the exposition presents the everyday objects of Ananiv residents, materials about the years of the Second World War and the pre-revolutionary period of the city of Ananiv.

The ruins of the ancient city of Thira were excavated by archaeologists near the walls of the Akkerman fortress.

The ancient city on the shore of the estuary at the mouth of the Tiras (Dniester) river was founded in the 6th century BC by immigrants from Greek Miletus, and in the 3rd century BC it reached its greatest prosperity. The main occupations of the inhabitants of Thira were agriculture, viticulture, handicrafts, fishing, and trade with the indigenous population of Transnistria. The city minted its own silver coin. From the beginning of the 2nd century AD, the city of Thira was part of the Roman Empire.

It was destroyed by the Goths in the second half of the 3rd century. A settlement of the Slavic tribes of Tiberians and Ulychi soon arose on the ruins, then a Genoese fortress.

Archaeological excavations have been carried out since 1900 and are still ongoing.

The original building of the Arab Cultural Center in Odesa has every chance of becoming an architectural monument.

The large Moorish-style house was built in 2001 at the expense of Arab businessman Adnan Kivan. The mosque stands out strongly in the urban development and is a real eastern pearl of Odesa.

When entering the prayer hall, men and women must remove their shoes, and women are issued long robes with hoods. In the prayer hall, openwork elm on the stair railings and architectural elements make the interior decoration of the mosque elegant and airy. Apart from a few small bookshelves on both sides of the hall, there is no other furniture. The entire floor is covered with a soft carpet, the pattern of which seems to divide the carpet into equal squares, which serve as conventional delimitation of the seats for those who pray. Under the ceiling, the main decoration is a large crystal chandelier shining with hundreds of lights.

The Arab Cultural Center in Odesa is open for tours that introduce visitors to Arab culture. There is an Arabic language school and a library.

Arkadiya is a resort area of ​​the city, the Odesa Riviera, the center of night life.

It is famous for its modern, well-equipped beaches and a large number of restaurants, night clubs and other entertainment facilities that work around the clock during the holiday season.

There are hotels, sanatoriums, rest houses, a water clinic, and a resort polyclinic located on the park territory near the sea.

The Armenian Church of the Assumption of the Virgin (Surb Astvatsatsin) has been preserved since the Middle Ages, when a large Armenian community lived in Bilhorod.

The temple has a squat shape, because the Muslim authorities forbade the construction of Christian churches higher than mosques. Over the centuries, the Armenian Church was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. Ancient paintings and medieval marble slabs (khachkars) with carved inscriptions have been preserved on the walls, the earliest of which dates back to the 10th century.

The Armenian Church operated until 1940. Until recently, it was the base of an archaeological expedition. In 2013, the church was returned to the Armenian community.

On the territory there is a Sarmatian crypt of the 3rd century AD, made of stone slabs, found on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The half-destroyed bell tower is the only surviving fragment of the Church of the Assumption in Kiliia. It is also the only surviving structure of the Kiliia fortress, except for the defensive moat.

The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God was built in the 15th century by the order of the Moldavian ruler Stephen III the Great at the same time as the construction of the fortress according to the project of the Byzantine architect and military engineer Privani, who gave the church some features of Sophia of Constantinople.

In 1825-1830, a two-story bell tower was built near the main entrance to the Church of the Assumption.

In 1947, the Soviet authorities razed the ancient temple to the ground. Today, only the remains of the bell tower have survived.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the main Roman Catholic church of Odesa.

Its construction began in 1848 according to the project of Franchesko Morandi with the support of the governor of the Novorossiya region, Count Vorontsov. Before that, there was a small church in the city, built in 1822 according to the project of Giovanni Frapolli on the territory that was allocated to Catholics in 1805 by the first mayor of Odesa, Dyuk de Rishelye.

In 1935, the church was closed, a local history museum was placed in it, and after the Second World War - a sports complex. The marble altars were destroyed, the shape of the Gothic windows was changed, and the stone vaults were destroyed.

Only in 1991, the church was returned to the Catholic community of the city. General of the infantry Count Oleksandr Lanzheron is buried here.

The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lymanske (former Selc) was the main church of the Kuchurhan German Catholics.

The church, built in 1901, was considered one of the most beautiful churches in southern Ukraine. Externally, it resembled the cathedral in Salzburg (Austria), monastic churches with double baroque towers in Silesia, as well as the Benedictine abbey church in Grusnau.

Limestone served as the building material of the monumental building in the Neo-Renaissance style and two twin towers with a height of 57.9 meters.

In 1944, the church was closed. For some time the building served as an assembly hall. Now in ruins.

The main exposition of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Museum of Local Lore is housed in a one-story building in the Empire style, built in the XIX century for the merchant and mayor Mykhaylo Femilidi.

In several halls visitors can get acquainted with the ancient and medieval history of the Northern Black Sea Coast, the history of the city of the XIX and early XX centuries, the nature of the region.

The original objects of life and art of Ancient Greece, numismatic collection, samples of oriental and Russian weapons are presented.

In the next building there is an ethnographic museum, which introduces the traditions of the peoples of the region.