Golitsyn trail in Crimea

2024 Author: Harold Hamphrey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:06

New World is a picturesque village located on the Black Sea coast. Here you will find bays with water of wondrous beauty, unusually shaped rocks, relict pines and other trees with curved trunks. Having visited many corners of the Crimea, you understand that the New World is not like any of them. The air here is amazing, filled with juniper and coniferous aroma. The sea is clean. It was here that many films were filmed, such as "Amphibian Man", "3 + 2", "Pirates of the 20th Century", "Sportloto-82", "Solo Voyage", "Treasure Island" and others.

Today you can take a trip to the places and paths where the heroes of the films once walked.

Prince Golitsyn

What associations does the name "New World" evoke in you? For some, it is associated with America and Columbus who discovered it. However, for the Crimeans and residents of this region, Novy Svet is also a picturesque resort village located near Sudak. It is associated with the personality of Lev Golitsyn, the Russian prince. Another association is wonderful champagne.

The key figure who set up the New World is Lev Sergeevich Golitsyn, also known as the founder of the Russian winemaking tradition in the Crimea and the founder of the industrial production of high-quality champagne in Russia. The New World owes a lot to Prince Golitsyn. For example, the main part of its attractions. A worthy place among them is rightfully occupied by the Golitsyn trail - a complex that has been preserved since the time of this prince.

Famous people who walked the Golitsyn trail

This complex was conceived and built in the late 19th century by the owner of the estate. The Golitsyn trail (New World) is famous for the fact that many respected and high-ranking guests of Golitsyn once walked along it: counts and princes Gagarins, Trubetskoy, Mordvinovs, Gorchakovs, theologians and priests, artist I. Bilibin. And in 1912, part of it, located near Cape Kapchik, was passed by Nicholas II himself, the last Russian emperor.

Construction of the Golitsyn trail

Golitsyn trail - a route where you will find stairs, viewing platforms, as well as the Cross and Golitsyn grottoes created by nature. For safety, stone parapets are arranged on steep sections. Viewing platforms are located in such places, from where it is most convenient to admire the mountain and sea views.

Golitsyn trail in the Crimea in some areas cut down at a height of up to 20 m above sea level in the rocky ground. It was built by Turkish workers. In the most dangerous areas, they cut through this path, being in "cradles" suspendedon the ropes. There was a case when a storm raged on the sea, and the workers were hanging upstairs in "cradles" in a strong wind. There was no way to put them on boats. So they spent 2 days above the raging sea. Food and water were lowered to them on ropes from the mountain.

Golitsyn grotto

You must be wondering how long the Golitsyn trail is. Its length is 5470 meters. Part of this trail stretches along the coast for 2 km. The Golitsyn trail begins on the outskirts of the Novy Svet, near Zelenaya Bay. Then it passes at the foot of the Koba-Kaya (its modern name is Orel) and leads travelers to the Golitsyn grotto. A cave Christian monastery was located here in the Middle Ages. The remains of frescoes, preserved until the 19th century, testify to this. Golitsyn Lev Sergeevich at the end of the 19th century equipped his wine collection here. Part of the grotto was fenced off with a wall. A massive door blocked the entrance to this room. The height of this grotto is from five meters (inside) to eight (outside), and the width and length are about seven meters. The mountain got its name Koba-Kaya (pictured below) thanks to the grotto, since it translates as "cave rock".

The entrance here under Prince Lev Golitsyn was blocked by a stone wall, today almost completely destroyed. Only a small fragment of it has survived. Inside there is a well where you can drink spring water. A metal hook for a lamp is driven into the ceiling above the well. Once upon a time, a huge chandelier hung on it, illuminating the grotto. However, visitors are especially strongthe impression is made by 2 walls of the wine cellar, each with 45 niches. They used to store bottled wines. These niches with an arched vault are located in 5 tiers.

Near the vinotheque, you can find a scene with a polycircular niche and a platform. This grotto has excellent acoustics. Its second name is well known to tourists - Chaliapin's Grotto. According to popular legend, Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, the great Russian singer, once sang from this stage, blocking the sound of sea waves with his mighty voice. However, according to historical data, Chaliapin never visited the New World. Nevertheless, this legend lives on and is preserved in an unofficial name. Today the "Golitsyn meetings" are held here - special musical events with fireworks and, of course, champagne.

In the sea, under the arches of this grotto, one can see a huge block that once fell from the "ceiling". This is the Turtle stone. A through underwater tunnel is located under it.

Cape Flat and Blue Bay

Further, leaving the Golitsyn grotto, the road rises smoothly to Cape Plosky, after which it descends again to the Blue Bay of the Golitsyn trail. An excursion along it on a hot summer day is accompanied by swimming in this bay. The sea here is shallow, but the water is usually clear and clean. You can use the services of a "sea taxi" in the summer when you get tired of walking through such a picturesque corner of nature as the Golitsyn trail. Sudak or Novy Svet are places where you can return from here by boat. blue bay(pictured below) was called the Rogue Cave due to the fact that the pirates hid their trophies in these caves. They were allowed to remain unnoticed by heaps of stones. The Golitsyn trail, following along the coast of this bay, goes around the town of Koba-Kaya. There are many stairs with railings and footbridges in this area that are easy to walk on.

What is interesting about Mount Hoba-Kai?

Under the southern cliffs of Mount Khoba-Kai, a world of gloomy gorges, blocky chaos and cyclopean stairs carved into the rock awaits you. You can see in the cliffs the fossilized remains of corals, which are about 150 million years old, as well as algae and sea urchins - the inhabitants of the Jurassic Ocean.

Cape Kapchik and King's Beach

After that, you can make the last ascent to Cape Kapchik along the rocky stairs. It is located between the Blue and Blue bays. The famous Royal Beach is located on the shores of the Golubaya Bay. It got its name in 1912, after Nicholas II visited here.

In good weather, Ayudag Mountain is visible from here, as well as the mountains of the southern coast of Crimea. This cape juts out into the sea and forms, together with other rocks of the coast, a prehistoric lizard or a fabulous dragon floating in the sea.

Through Grotto

Kapchik crosses through the Through Grotto from Blue Bay to Blue Bay. About 77 meters is the length of this natural cave, which was formed here due to a tectonic fault. In the formation of Cross, unlike many other Crimean caves, did not participateunderground water. Its wedge-shaped profile and deep cracks indicate that the underground gallery appeared as a result of the uneven movement of limestones of Cape Kapchik along several faults. The same cracks can be found in the form of crevasses on Mount Karaul-Oba. Lumps of limestone, torn off the floor, lie at the bottom of the gallery. However, the fault has nothing to do with the elongated shape of this cape. This is not an elongated area of limestones advanced along ruptures in the sea, but a reef structure, which was composed of massive, durable limestones. It was used under Golitsyn as a banquet hall. The prince built here an arched entrance with an antique-forged wooden door, stone stairs leading down to the sea, and stained-glass windows. Now you can get to the grotto from the side of the Golubaya Bay, if you walk along a path carved into the rock fenced with a parapet. The cave was opened a few years ago, and you could get inside, of course, provided that you are not afraid of bats. Currently, unfortunately, the grotto is closed to tourists after an accident that occurred in it. A grate is installed, and you can only look inside through it. In addition to the Through Grotto, Kapchik also has several other smaller caves.

Juniper Grove

What else is interesting about the Golitsyn trail? You can return from Cape Kapchik to Novyi Svet by a short road through a juniper grove. It is a living monument of ancient geological epochs. The grove is a remnant of ancient vegetation that covered Europe back in the Cenozoic era. The Cenozoic era lasted 60 million years. These forestswe saw cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths … Golitsyn trail (New World) - a place in the Crimea, near which they find the remains of animals that have died out for a long time. Mammoth bones were first discovered in the last century not far from here - near the village of Solnechnogorskoye, in the valley of the Sotera River. The onset of glaciers began in the Quaternary period. Heat-loving vegetation perished everywhere and only survived in the south, since the glacier did not reach here. It is in the vicinity of the New World that the largest juniper grove in Crimea (470 hectares) is located. Several types of juniper grow here, as well as Sudak and Crimean pines (Pallas). Sudak is found only in the Crimea, on Cape Aya and in Sudak. It was first studied by V. N. Stankevich, a young botanist, at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1906, in honor of him, it was named Stankevich's pine by Academician Sukachev.

Mount Karaul-Oba

This mountain guards juniper groves and bays of the New World from the west. Climbing to its top, you will understand where its name came from. The entire coast, starting from Cape Meganom and ending with Mount Ayu-Dag, can be seen from here. You can admire the landscape while sitting in the "Golitsyn chair", carved out of stone. You will see the amphitheater of the New World, as well as three multi-colored bays located at the foot: Green, Blue and Blue.

Other places of interest

What else attracts tourists to the Golitsyn trail, the photo of which is presented in this article? Square rooms, which are surrounded by straight walls of rocks, are located under the mountain Karaul-Oba. Ahead is "Adam's bed". ita narrow gorge that is covered with ivy. Behind the "Adam's bed" is a staircase in the rock. In the New World, all the stone stairs were built by Golitsyn. However, this one, most likely, was built by the Tauris, and the prince only renovated it. Here you will find yourself in the gorges: cozy "Paradise" and wild "Hell". Descending from Karaul-Oba, you will find yourself on the "Tsar's Beach". This mountain is also very interesting from a historical point of view. Above the 70-meter cliff on its western spur are the remains of dwellings and walls of an ancient fortress, which was built by King Asander (Bosporan). Here, in addition, there is a parking lot of Tauris.

Golitsyn trail: how to get there?

First you need to go to the highway Simferopol - Sudak. After that, go to the village. New World. This location has the following GPS coordinates: E 34°54.708, N 44°49.788. The road here goes near the sea, skirting the foot of Kush-Kai along a steep slope.

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