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Excursions
"To the
holy places of Stary Krym"
 The
rout: Feodosia - Stary Krym - monastery Sourb-Khach
Subjects: historical
Kind of transport: auto-pedestrian
Duration: 8 hours
Distance: 5 km
Stary Krym.., The city - myth, city -legend,
which was called differently by various people having lived here
in different time, The historians believe that the peninsula was
called by the name of this town. The mentions about it are kept
in the works of the ancient historians and travelers - Arabian,
Turkish, Genoa, Venetian, Tatar, Armenian. The unique architectural
- archeo-logical monuments of the town preserved up to now: a mosque
of Khan of the Golden Horde - Uzbek constructed in XIV century with
remains ofmedrese, mosque constructed by sultan of Egypt Beibars,
the walls of the caravan - sarai. The monastery Sourb-Khach reminds
of the tragical and complicated history of the Armenian colony in
Crimea "small Armenia", This monastery has become a center
of the Armenian culture and writing, where the handwritten masterpieces
- book with miniatures havi being created.
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