Country "cave city" is located in the most beautiful and picturesque places Bakhchisaray district of the Crimea. It can not only admire the beauty of nature, but also the ability of the ancient builders do not destroy this beauty, and give it even more originality and charm.
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Kachi-Kalonsky array located eight kilometers south of Bakhchisarai. Name corresponding to the appearance rocks translated - "Cross ship." It later was named as the settlement was called in ancient times - is unknown. On the cliff-like nose of stone vessel, visible cross, created by nature itself. Currently, the settlement and monastery, located at an altitude of about five hundred meters above sea level, leaving only numerous cave structures.
One of the attractions of the settlement - rock church of St. Sophia. It is believed that it was created in the early eleventh century. And the church operated until the early 20th. Next - cell in which it was originally a storeroom - vinodavilnya.Artificial caves
Kachi-Kalonskogo array, located in natural caves. How many caves - is unknown.
assumed that all space is occupied huge fortress monastery, but it is not, in the "Khazar period" - the eighth-ninth century - there was a huge winery complex. During the grape harvest settlement revived, all the rest of the time people lived down in the valley of Kachin.In many
floor space cut trough for squeezing grapes. At Kachi-Kalone their 120, they could simultaneously handle up to two hundred and fifty tons of grapes. It is believed that some of these tanks could be used to store water.
Kachi-Kalon was a fortified settlement, the only safe place in it - the citadel, an area of about one and a half acres. Perhaps she, like other Byzantine fortifications, came in the sixth century. Preserved defensive wall, which was 3-4 meters tall and three feet wide.Like all
mound, the citadel is very poorly understood.For
fortified headland, is the 4th cave - a giant arch height of about seventy feet, the largest landslide caves in the area. There are carved in multiple layers of the cave. It is believed that they belonged to the monastery of St. Anastasia. In the center of the cave - a niche where the right of the rock flowing water - a source of holy Anastasia. He is still considered healthful, though the water is now undrinkable. On the source - is carved a large cross, which appeared in the revival of the monastery in the 19th century.
Below, from the cleft rises so-called "kneeling cherry" - one of the revered sacred trees of the Crimea. Age of the tree difficult to ascertain, but the mention of it occurs already in the regional literature of the 19th century.
Down the highway, in a stone slab carved altar of the church of Saint Anastasia, the walls of the temple to this day have not been preserved.
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