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      Gorgippia, the gate and the High Bank

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.2 km🍽 2📍 8 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The first-day classic: an open-air ancient city, the Turkish gate and the oldest church, lunch by the sea and a walk along the High Bank to the lighthouse and the local history museum.

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      1. 1
        🏛 Russian Gate
        ул. Пушкина, у входа в парк 30-летия Победы
        🆓 free entry
        The only surviving gate of the 18th-century Turkish fortress, where old Anapa begins.
        Start at the gate of the 1783 Turkish fortress, all that remains of it.
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        Russian Gate
        © Ирина Мит · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Russian Gate
        © Фил Вечеровский · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The gate is all that remains of the Ottoman fortress of Anapa, built in 1783.
        • The fortress had seven bastions and three gates; only the eastern one survives.
        • Walls 3.2 km long and 8 m high ran from the gate to the sea, along the high bank to the lighthouse and back along Krepostnaya Street.
        • Russian troops took the fortress on 12 June 1828, and in 1829 Anapa finally passed to Russia.
        • The gate was named Russian for the 25th anniversary of the capture of Anapa; the slab above the opening reads “Russian Gate 1854”.
        • The gate was restored in 1995–1996; inside is a stele in memory of the Russian soldiers who fell at the fortress walls in 1788–1828.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Church of St Onuphrius the Great
        Соборная ул., 7
        🆓 free entry
        Anapa’s oldest Orthodox church, founded right after the Turkish fortress was taken.
        The church consecrated to mark the taking of Anapa on 12 June 1828.
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        Church of St Onuphrius the Great
        © Ingvar-fed · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Church of St Onuphrius the Great
        © Yuriy75 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The church was founded on the orders of Nicholas I in 1830 and completed by 1837.
        • It was dedicated to St Onuphrius the Great because Russian troops took Anapa on his feast day, 12 June 1828.
        • In September 1837 Nicholas I attended a prayer service here when he visited Anapa.
        • The church was destroyed in the Crimean War; the present stone building was consecrated in 1874.
        • In 1964 the church was closed, its domes and bell tower were removed and the building was given to the House of Pioneers.
        • The church was returned to believers in 1991 and restored by the late 1990s.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Gorgippia Museum
        Набережная ул., 4
        🎟 ticket · the excavation and the indoor exhibition need separate tickets
        An open-air excavation of an ancient city right by the embankment: paved streets, wineries and sarcophagi, with finds from the tombs in the hall.
        The museum opens at 10:00: first the excavation with its wineries, paved street and sarcophagi, then the hall with sculpture and jewellery. Break 13:00–13:30, closed on Mondays.
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        Gorgippia Museum
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        Gorgippia Museum
        © Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Gorgippia Museum
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        • Gorgippia existed from the 4th century BC to the 3rd century AD and was part of the Bosporan Kingdom.
        • The city was named after Gorgippus, governor and brother of the Bosporan king Leucon I; before that it was the Sindian Harbour.
        • Strabo called Gorgippia the royal capital of the Sindi.
        • The city, covering more than 40 hectares, was destroyed around 240; most of it lies under modern Anapa.
        • The excavation shows paved streets, house foundations, wineries, wells and a stretch of the city wall.
        • In 1975–1976, while digging a foundation pit for a house, workers found the painted “Tomb of Heracles” with scenes of his labours.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Matsoni · 🧸 play area
        ул. Ленина, 3
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        Lunch two blocks away: Adjarian khachapuri and pkhali.
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant by the High Bank, with a children’s room. What to order: khachapuri and khinkali.
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      9. 5
        🌅 High Bank
        Верхняя Набережная ул., смотровая над Малой бухтой
        The cliff-top shore south of the centre: viewing platforms above the sea, pebble beaches below and the best sunsets in the city.
        Along Verkhnyaya Naberezhnaya, following the cliff to the viewpoint above the Malaya Bay. Pebble beaches below.
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        High Bank
        © Ольга Анапа · CC BY-SA 4.0
        High Bank
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        High Bank
        © kikiwis · CC BY 3.0
        High Bank
        © Alexxx Malev from Taganrog, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The wall of the Turkish fortress ran along the high bank from the port to the lighthouse.
        • The beaches here are pebbly, while those further north, in the centre and along Pionersky Prospekt, are sandy.
        • After the oil spill, the pebble beaches from Utrish to the High Bank were the first to be declared clean and were taken out of the emergency zone in March 2026.
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      11. 6
        🏛 Anapa Lighthouse
        Крепостная ул., 2/3
        The striped lighthouse at the edge of the High Bank, the symbol of Anapa and the place everyone goes to watch the sunset. No entry inside.
        The striped 1955 lighthouse, on the site of the one destroyed in the war. We see it from outside.
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        Anapa Lighthouse
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Anapa Lighthouse
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The lighthouse was founded on Cape Anapa on 14 July 1898 and first lit on 20 October 1909.
        • The retreating German troops destroyed the lighthouse during the Great Patriotic War.
        • Work on rebuilding the present lighthouse began in 1955.
        • It is an octagonal tower with three black horizontal stripes.
        • The light burns 45 m above the sea and can be seen 18.5 miles away; it is a flashing red light.
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      13. 7
        🖼 Local History Museum
        ул. Протапова, 1
        🎟 ticket
        A small museum next to the lighthouse: the history of Anapa and its surroundings, with old cannons in the courtyard. A branch of the Gorgippia Museum.
        Next to the lighthouse is the local history museum: the history of Anapa and its surroundings. Open until 18:00, until 17:30 on Fridays.
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        Local History Museum
        © Dmitry89 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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      15. 8
        ☕️ Coffee L coffee shop · 🧸 play area
        Таманская ул., 4
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        Finish with coffee and a dessert above the bay; the coffee shop is open until 22:30.
        🍴 A coffee shop on the High Bank by the Malaya Bay, with a children’s room. What to order: a lavender latte, tiramisu, a milkshake.

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