Odessa in Winter 2017
Tourist Attractions in Odessa
Odessa Opera and Ballet House: is among Ukraine’s greatest architectural monuments and is one of the most beautiful theaters in the world. The first theater was built in 1809, but after the fire the building was badly damaged and a new look was received in 1887. The mdern building was built in 1887 by the architects Felner and Helmer in the style of the new Viennese baroque. The interior of the auditorium is stylized as the architecture of the late French Rococo.
Deribasovskaya street: The main pedestrian street of the city, it is adjacent to the City Park (City Garden)
City Garden: is the oldest public park in the city. The garden was defeated by Felix De Ribas in 1803 on it belonging to a plot of urban land right in the center of a young city.
Catherine Square: 1894, on the anniversary of the decree on the founding of Odessa, the laying of the monument of Catherine II and the founders of the city was laid.
Duke de Richelieu: A Frenchman, one of the founding fathers of Odessa, where he was placed in 1828 a monument.
Potemkin Steps: A boulevard staircase leading to the sea. The steps took four years to build and were completed in 1841.
The Marine station and View the Port
Vorontsov Palace: The palace was built in 1828-29 for the Count M.Vorontsov, the project F.Boffo. The colonnade, which is a rotunda and a belvedere, one of the symbols of Odessa, is a continuation of the Vorontsov palace estate.
Chapter 2: Charming Odessa
Founded by Russia’s Catherine the Great in the late 18th century, Odesa, a decadent and energetic city right at the Black Sea, will be the point of interest of our excursion today.
Let us take you to a town known for its sunny climate, sandy beaches and beachside nightclubs. To people that are known for being stylish, funny, savvy and not easily impressed in the old USSR. We’ll arrive in Odesa in the morning and start the day right with a tour through the old town, starting in the Port with the founding of Odesa as a Russian Naval Fortress where we will pass by the Belvedere of Vorontsov’s Palace & the Monument of L-Utesov. Continuing to a monument to the city’s founders, including Catherine the Great. Moving on in history to the first Russian revolution in 1905 where the crew of the battleship potemkin stood up against the Russian regime over to the foundation of the Odesa Soviet Republic (which lasted almost two months, until it was sacked by German and Austrian-Hungarian forces) to the Bolshevik Uprising in 1917/1918, through the Ukrainian Independence and finally to the Trade Union House, where in January 2014 the bloodiest civil conflict in Odesa since1918 escalated. With the city’s origin as a Tatar settlement, it has always been the host of a multiethnic population which is still represented today in a large Russian minority of 30 %.
Odesa’s national opera and theatre – the jewel of Odesa’s architectural, designed by the same architects that also designed the Vienna state opera – and the Spaso-Preobazhenskj Cathedral, will introduce us in the Odessan architecture and diverse but simple beauty of the city. Additionally, we will visit the Odesa Privoz, a market filled with Soviet relics and the Museum of Western & Eastern Art.
In the evening we will explore Vul Derybasivska, the famous promenade of Odesa with its neo-renaissance architecture leading us to the potemkin steps with a beautiful view over the harbor. Passing by the Duke of Richlieu statue we will stroll along the tree-lined Primorsky Boulevard, a slight sea breeze accompanying us to the Arcadia district where beach clubs and loud music only leave us to say – Let’s party.
The morning after – if you are still able we would like to take you to one of Odesa’s famous beaches & soak up the sun, build a sandcastle or go for a swim – whatever your heart desires. In the afternoon we will take you back to Kiyv, while taking a little break in the fabled Uman – with its beautiful landscape and the center point of Jewish pilgrims travelling to see the burial site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. In Jewish faith, it is believed that a travel to his grave provides the best chance of getting unscathed through the stern judgement.