Places to see in Anapa

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🏛 Russian Gate
The only surviving gate of the 18th-century Turkish fortress, where old Anapa begins.
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🏛 Church of St Onuphrius the Great
Anapa’s oldest Orthodox church, founded right after the Turkish fortress was taken.
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🖼 Gorgippia Museum
An open-air excavation of an ancient city right by the embankment: paved streets, wineries and sarcophagi, with finds from the tombs in the…
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🚶 Central Embankment
A pedestrian embankment along the sandy beach, from the ancient excavation to Pionersky Prospekt. Out of season it’s quiet, with cafés open…
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🌅 Central Beach
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…
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🌅 High Bank
The cliff-top shore south of the centre: viewing platforms above the sea, pebble beaches below and the best sunsets in the city.
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🏛 Anapa Lighthouse
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.
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🖼 Local History Museum
A small museum next to the lighthouse: the history of Anapa and its surroundings, with old cannons in the courtyard. A branch of the…
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✨ Batiskaf Oceanarium
A tunnel aquarium with fish of the Black Sea and Kuban rivers, half an hour for the children next to the lighthouse.
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✨ Rif Oceanarium
An oceanarium by the High Bank: starfish, sea urchins, corals and fish you can feed.
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🌳 30th Anniversary of Victory Park
The main park in the centre, from the Russian Gate to the sea: alleys, fountains, play areas and rides. Out of season some rides are…
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🚶 Pionersky Prospekt
Ten kilometres of sanatoriums and sandy beach with dunes. Out of season: empty beaches, shuttered stalls and plenty of room for a long walk…
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✨ Anapa Dolphinarium
Shows with dolphins, fur seals and a beluga, with an oceanarium attached.
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🖼 Experimentarium Museum
An interactive science museum: you can turn and press the exhibits and test the laws of physics on yourself.
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🌳 Walnut Grove Park
A shady park above the sea: walnut and almond trees, cypresses and junipers, a playground and a rose garden.
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🚶 Admiral Kuznetsov Embankment
The southern embankment below the cliff: a pebble shore, cafés and a path on to Bald Mountain.
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🌅 Bald Mountain and the “800 Steps”
A staircase with benches down to the sea and a viewpoint at the top with a view of the whole Anapa bay.
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🌅 Swallows’ Nests
Sheer cliffs pitted with holes that look like the nests of sand martins, the most unusual sight on the coast.
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🌅 Dzhemete Beach and Dunes
A wide sandy beach with dunes between the sanatoriums of Pionersky Prospekt and the sea, where a long empty beach to the north begins.
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🌅 Lazurny Beach
The halfway point along the sea from Dzhemete to Vityazevo: sand, dunes and empty lifeguard towers out of season.
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🌅 Vityazevo Beach
A sandy beach with crushed shells where Pionersky Prospekt runs into Vityazevo; it’s 15 minutes from the water to the Paralia.
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🚶 Paralia in Vityazevo
A Greek-style pedestrian street: columns, arches and statues. Noisy in summer; in late October most of the stalls and rides are closed.
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🏛 Anapa Bus Station
The intercity bus station, with buses to Novorossiysk, Temryuk and Krasnodar.
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🏛 Mikrorayon Gorgippiya Stop
A stop on the way out of town, served by bus 109 to Sukko and Bolshoy Utrish.
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🌳 Cypress Lake
A pond in a mountain valley with swamp cypresses growing out of the water. In late October the needles turn russet, the most beautiful time.
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🌳 Utrish Nature Reserve
Juniper and pistachio woods above the sea, a little piece of the Mediterranean. Visitors walk only on eco-trails with a reserve guide.
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🏛 Novorossiysk Bus Station
Where you change from the Anapa bus to minibus 102 to Abrau-Dyurso.
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🖼 Abrau-Dyurso Winery: tours
The wine tourism centre of the country’s largest sparkling wine producer: tours of the 19th-century tunnel cellars with a tasting.
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🌅 Lake Abrau
A mountain lake ringed by vineyards: a promenade, an art park and a view of the slopes covered with vines.
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🖼 Ataman Cossack Village
An open-air museum of Cossack life on the shore of the Taman Bay: farmsteads, a mill, a school and a church.
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🏛 Hermonassa-Tmutarakan Settlement
An excavation above a cliff where a city stood for 2,600 years in a row: Greek Hermonassa, then Russian Tmutarakan.
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🖼 Lermontov House Museum in Taman
A Cossack’s cottage above a cliff where Lermontov stayed, the very “Taman” of “A Hero of Our Time”.
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🖼 Taman Archaeological Museum
Finds from the Taman Peninsula, from Greek Hermonassa to medieval Tmutarakan: terracotta, painted pottery, coins and amphorae.
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