Travel Guide Yevpatoriya (Євпаторія)

110,000 inhabitants. This coastal town is located just west of the Crimean peninsula. Its dry and hot climate has made it since the arrival of the Russians a centre for rest and care, especially for tuberculosis patients. If this tradition is still present, tourists come mainly to enjoy the beaches and, others, fewer, to visit the remains of this ancient Tatar city where Muslim, Christian and Karaite places of worship coexist. The city has two faces, an ancient city, whose small streets lined with wooden houses and numerous wooded parks are a delight to walk through. On the other hand, the city is also an industrial city and an important port on the Black Sea, which disfigures a little the beautiful bay at the end of which Yevpatoriya is located. That is why it is necessary to visit it for those who spend two weeks in Crimea, for others other destinations are more attractive.History. The ancient city of Kerkinitidus was founded by the Greeks in the 6th century BC. Like all cities in southern Crimea, it was invaded by the Turks in the 15th century. The city's privileged location, on sea routes, was used by the Turks, and under the name of Guzlev, the city became one of the largest cities in Crimea after Bakhtchissarai. There was the largest slave market on the peninsula. The city was finally taken by the Russians and occupied by them from 1736. Yevpatoriya, became the name of the city at the end of the 18th century, in the process of Russification led by Catherine II. The first thalassotherapy establishment opened in 1913 and the city definitively buried its past by becoming today an important centre of Ukrainian and Russian children's summer camps. However, the visit allows us to glimpse the power of the city during the Turkish period.