Posted on 12/09/2021 7:17:04 PM PST by marshmallow
A new tourist route called “The Christian Crimea” is being developed as part of the national tourist project "Tourism and the hospitality industry" in Crimea.
This issue was discussed at a meeting between the Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Chernyshenko, and the Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, RIA Novosti reports.
After the meeting, Dmitry Chernyshenko gave a number of directions, suggesting that a tourist and pilgrimage destination — a national tourist route called “the Christian Crimea” — should be developed as part of a large-scale tourist project in Crimea.
For its part, Rus-Tourism, the top Russian tourist authority, noted that there is “great interest shown by tour operators in the development of this type of route, and predicted that they should be highly popular among tourists."
“We are currently running a large-scale project on the design of the Crimean macro-territory,” Dmitry Chernyshenko said. “Today there is a unique chance — while we are still planning — to include historic places, Orthodox churches and monasteries, which attract large numbers of people. It is important to make sure that these places are easily accessibly for tourists and pilgrims. We need to create affordable and comfortable accommodation facilities, and of course make tourist programs. It is necessary to prepare year-round routes for recreation and spiritual enrichment of our people,” concluded the vice-premier of the Government of Russia.
Crimea a river you Russia haters.
Pilgrimages are a favorable possibility.
Who is their patron saint? What town is he from?
I am reminded of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where pilgrims of all faiths or no faith travel for miles on foot to this destination, where many miracles are said to have taken place.
Now, if Blessed Mother would kindly make an appearance, Crimea could be the next Medjugorje.
The Crimean Peninsula has a surface area of approx. 10,000 square miles - comparable to the entire state of Hawaii.
That's big!
Several larger cities are located there, as well as many towns and villages - so there is no dearth of "holy sites."
Regards,
The Crimean Tatars killed all the Christians or sold them off into slavery. The Soviets kicked out all the Tatars, dispersing them across Siberia. The Ukraine began to let the Tatars back in. I still don’t know why. Then the Russians returned.
“The Crimean Tatars killed all the Christians or sold them off into slavery. The Soviets kicked out all the Tatars, dispersing them across Siberia. The Ukraine began to let the Tatars back in. I still don’t know why. Then the Russians returned.”
Probably at the orders of Skunk Cabbage, who was ready to start a war with Russia if she had won in 2016. Sickening, but I figured some type of abuse of ethnic Russians must have been going on their to make Putin move in.
I don’t travel that much....but I would love a long trip to Russia and the Caucasus countries... Belarus and Poland would be great...Kalmykia.I’d love to take the trans Siberian road....
Kaffa, now Theodosia, on Crimea used to be the world largest slave market.
Crimean Tatars used to raid neighboring countries (Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Rumania) to get the slaves and sold them to Turkey.
Are there Potemkin’s villages to be visited?
Crimea still has a significant Tartar population. Be interesting to see how this goes.
Sounds like Mongols are getting ready to bring in muslim terrorists and send them across the border.
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