Simeiz

Simeiz of the Greek flag , a coastal township on the South Coast , 18 km west of Yalta , near the foot of the mountain cat .

Not far from the village found sites of ancient peoples .

Also in the vicinity of the village are historical evidence of the era of Tauris .They left behind dolmens * stone mounds and a fortified settlement on the mountain cat . At its foot is the largest cemetery in the Crimea, the Taurus , which consists of 95 graves.

In the Middle Ages the settlement became a feudal castle , ruled the rural districts.In Etto time the Byzantines , who at that time belonged to the Southern coast of Crimea , was founded near the fortified monastery . Once the power of the Byzantine Empire waned , Simeiz joined the Genoese captaincy Gothia . The Byzantine castle into a fortified castle.

After the transfer of Genoese possessions to the Ottoman Empire was a small village Simeiz . In 1828godu here was based estate Simeiz. It belonged to the famous industrialist seconds , Major Ivan Akimovich Maltsova .

The estate a total area of ​​567 acres of land mainly used for fruit and grapes.

In the early twentieth century, the descendants of Ivan Akimovich sold part of the estate for the construction of houses and pensions. This resort town in the future given the name New Simeiz.

He was one of the most prestigious and comfortable bourgeois- aristocratic resorts of Crimea.It was built resort park , built a number of villas that have survived to this day (Xenia , Miro -Mare , etc.). In 1912, the village visited by the Emperor Nicholas II and his family .

In the Soviet era in Simeiz based on the nationalized estates were organized sanatorium for treating tuberculosis.

Today, this village resort where summer thousands of tourists have a rest . Since Soviet times, is popular with nudists Simeiz .

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