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      All day by the sea: from the lighthouse to Pionersky

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 9.6 km + 🚌🍽 3📍 12 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      Anapa along the water: the High Bank and the lighthouse, the southern embankment and Walnut Grove, Bald Mountain and the Swallows’ Nests, and in the evening the central embankment and dinner by the mouth of the Anapka.

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      1. 1
        🍽 Kapitan café · 🧸 play area
        Набережная ул., 3
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        Breakfast from 8:00 by the panoramic windows above the bay.
        🍴 A café at the edge of the High Bank with a panorama of the bay and Black Sea food. What to order: rapa whelk escalopes, pike-perch in champagne sauce, aubergines with prawns.
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      3. 2
        🌅 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 the cliff to the viewpoint above the Malaya Bay.
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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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        🏛 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 lighthouse, then on south along the High Bank.
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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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      7. 4
        🖼 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.
        The local history museum next to the lighthouse, if you fancy some history (from 10:00, closed on Mondays).
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        Local History Museum
        © Dmitry89 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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        🚶 Admiral Kuznetsov Embankment
        наб. имени Адмирала Кузнецова, у Ореховой рощи
        The southern embankment below the cliff: a pebble shore, cafés and a path on to Bald Mountain.
        Go down to the southern embankment, a pebble shore below the cliff.
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        Admiral Kuznetsov Embankment
        © yurij-menkovich · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Admiral Kuznetsov Embankment
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        Admiral Kuznetsov Embankment
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
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      11. 6
        ☕️ Na Galke café · 🧸 play area
        наб. имени Адмирала Кузнецова, 2Б
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        Lunch on the shore: pasta with trout or the all-day breakfast.
        🍴 A Mediterranean-style café on the pebble shore; sometimes you can see dolphins in the bay. What to order: pasta with trout, draniki with salmon, breakfast.
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        🌳 Walnut Grove Park
        ул. Ивана Голубца / ул. Маяковского
        A shady park above the sea: walnut and almond trees, cypresses and junipers, a playground and a rose garden.
        Walnut Grove: shade and junipers.
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        Walnut Grove Park
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        Walnut Grove Park
        © MikSed · CC BY 4.0
        • The park is sometimes called the Ancient Park.
        • After the war the site was scorched earth; the grove was replanted with different kinds of walnut trees.
        • In the 2000s the park was renovated, and the Central Embankment was extended by a kilometre with a way down to the sea.
        • It has almost 900 conifers, 1,400 deciduous plants and 450 shrubs, with a dancing fountain in the middle.
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        🌅 Bald Mountain and the “800 Steps”
        Супсех, район Лысой горы
        A staircase with benches down to the sea and a viewpoint at the top with a view of the whole Anapa bay.
        About three kilometres along the shore to Bald Mountain and its viewpoint.
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        🌅 Swallows’ Nests
        Супсех, обрыв у Лысой горы
        Sheer cliffs pitted with holes that look like the nests of sand martins, the most unusual sight on the coast.
        Cliffs pitted with holes like swallows’ nests; don’t go near the edge.
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        Swallows’ Nests
        © Tommireik · CC BY-SA 4.0
      18. 🚌 minibus 126 from Ulitsa Lermontova to TRTs Krasnaya Ploshchad, every 20 minutes; then 25 minutes on foot along Astrakhanskaya, or a taxi
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        🚶 Central Embankment
        Набережная ул., у выхода из парка 30-летия Победы
        A pedestrian embankment along the sandy beach, from the ancient excavation to Pionersky Prospekt. Out of season it’s quiet, with cafés open overlooking the bay.
        Head back to the centre and walk the embankment north from Gorgippia.
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        Central Embankment
        © Александр Байдуков · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Central Embankment
        © Наталья Лексукова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Central Embankment
        © Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Anapa became a resort in 1866.
        • The sandy beach, the Anapa spit, curves gently around the bay.
        • The city’s name is often traced to the Greek for “high cape”.
        • By decree of Nicholas I of 15 December 1846, the fortress of Anapa was granted town status.
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        🌅 Central Beach
        Набережная ул., у парка 30-летия Победы
        A wide sandy beach in the centre: a shallow bay, a pier and a view of the High Bank. In late October the swimming season is over, and people stroll by the water.
        The Central Beach in the evening light: the pier and a view of the High Bank.
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        Central Beach
        © Наталья Лексукова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Central Beach
        © Dira0101 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The shallows off Anapa warm up well: in the swimming season the water is usually +21…+25 °C.
        • In December 2024, after two tankers were wrecked in the Kerch Strait, fuel oil washed up on Anapa’s beaches.
        • The polluted sand was removed for more than a year and clean sand brought in; in spring 2026 the pebble beaches were taken out of the emergency zone.
        • The 2026 swimming season ran from 1 June to 30 September; swimming was allowed on beaches cleared by Rospotrebnadzor, the consumer health watchdog.
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      23. 12
        🍽 Seti restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Пионерский просп., 1
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        Dinner by the mouth of the Anapka: fish, seafood and pike cutlets.
        🍴 A fish restaurant by the mouth of the Anapka with a nautical interior. What to order: seafood salad, tom yum, pike cutlets.

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