What to do and see in Gelendzhiksky District, Southern District: The Best Budget-friendly Things to do

Show Park Roman Empire is located in a pine forest, at the entrance to Gelendzhik ( turn on Divnomorskoe).On the territory of the ancient Roman settlement is recreated, consisting entirely of ancient wooden structures. The Park consists of several thematic areas. They entered Roman military fortress, the Village of barbarians, the School for gladiators, arena fights, the Roman market, the Ancient tyre, Pottery, Children's fortress, etc. there are shows with a duration of 1.5 hours. All the action takes place around the audience and pass on 3 areas of the Park at a time. The show involves 15 actors, animators and stuntmen. All equipment and weapons of actors-Roman Legionnaires, gladiators and other inhabitants of the Fort, are exact copies of objects of that era. The Park has a collection of operating ancient combat vehicles collected from various museums of Russia. The audience will find many surprises and unexpected plot twists. Free Express to and from the Park.

The history of the foundation and formation of the Gelendzhik Museum of History and Local Lore is inextricably connected with the history of our country. Political and economic transformations, revolutions and wars, the change of state power, undoubtedly affected the development of the museum. Over the past more than a hundred years, the museum may be said to have been "born" three times: in 1909, 1920 and 1949, it was closed twice. The museum consists of the head museum and two structural divisions: "House-Museum of V.G. Korolenko" (opened May 21, 1964 in x. Dzhankhot), "Battery No. 394 of Captain A.E. Zubkov" (opened April 12, 1975 between the village of Kabardinka and the city of Novorossiysk on Mount Penai).

The Staryi Park is the first and only architectural park on the Black Sea coast. The main epochs of the global culture and aesthetics are represented here on the area of more than a hectare: the Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Middle Ages and Renaissance, Eastern and Orthodox culture, the culture of the Caucasian. It forms a unique effect of the Unity: different “time points” and architectural styles coexist and complement each other in one green space, making up the Unity. Egyptian Sphinx, a Pharaoh’s guard; an obelisk proving that the royal power is the will of heaven; a pyramid full of the spirit of the ancient civilization... Author and creator of the cultural center-Aleksey Aleksandrovich Ivanovich. We invite you to the journey in the Staryi Park!