360 Chersonesus (eng)  part-02
Channel: Крым Онлайн
Date: 2017-03-08

01.02.2017 leading film: Anna Ermakova (eng) 
Tourist guide #0049

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This unique monument of antiquity is one of the brightest tourist attractions on the Crimean peninsula.

Chersonesus is an ancient city, founded over two and a half thousand years ago by Greek colonists. These ancient inhabitants chose a very favorable place to settle: the polis was located on a small peninsula between two bays on Crimea’s southwestern coast. Thus it was named Chersonesus, which in Greek means ‘peninsula.