Туры по Крыму и Севастополю.

CRIMEAN WAR TOUR

The Crimean war tour: Panorama museum; the 4-th bastion; the Sapoene Heights, a command post of Lord Raglan, commander of the British Army during the Light Brigade Charge; the plain of Balaklava - the Valley of Death; the British monument in the Valley of Death seen from the former Russian redoubt; the town of Balaklava a British base during the Crimean war; Balaklava secret base for Soviet submarines; walk along the promenade with cozy small restaurants where one can have a lunch on a sunny terrace overlooking the Balaklava harbor. The Common cemetery of the Russian defenders on the Northern side of Sevastopol harbor (optional).

The Crimean war tour takes approximately 5 hours. I can arrange a car at your request or a minivan. You will get acquainted with some pages of the Eastern war known also as the Crimean war as the main events of that war took place in the Crimea near Sevastopol.

The Crimean war tour includes:

• The Panorama “Defense of Sevastopol in 1854-55”, an unforgettable piece of arts, which illustrates the day of the first storm of the city by the allied troops.

• Restored Russians emplacements on the 4-th bastion where great Leo Tolstoy fought as an artillery officer. The whole area is dotted with monuments and memorials of the Crimean war.

• Sapoune Heights, from where Lord Raglan with his staff observed the famous Charge of the Light Brigade immortalized by Lord Tennyson’s striking poem; the plain of Balaklava known as the Valley of Death.

• A stop in the the Valley of Death on the area of the former Russian redoubt to view the British monument to those who died in the Charge of the Light Brigade (the monument is in the vineyards and can be seen from the redoubt).

• Balaklava secret base for Soviet submarines built on the orders of Stalin in the early years of the cold war.

• The town of Balaklava, a base of the British army during the Crimean war. Stroll along the promenade where you can have a lunch at a cozy fish restaurant.

• The Common cemetery of the Russian defenders on the Northern side of Sevastopol harbor.