Small foto collage for those who are going to be a guest of our resort town of Sudak in the summer of 2010 and the rest in the Crimea on the Black Sea.
Genoese fortress in Sudak is situated on an ancient coral reef, which is a conical mountain (mountain Kyz-Kulla-Burun or fortress), near Sudak Bay of the Black Sea. The area of the fortress for almost 30 hectares.
According to legend, recorded in the late spring "Sudak Synaxaria" fortress was built in 212 AD. Oe. Alans, but no archaeological evidence of that date to date have been found in connection with which many scholars date the end of its construction VII VN Oe. and associate it with the Khazars and Byzantines. Fortress except Khazars, Byzantines and Genoese ruled as Polovcians (XI-XIII cc.), The Golden Horde (XIII-XIV centuries.) And Turks (XV-XVIII centuries). The successful arrangement of the fortress and strong fortifications made almost impregnable fortress: Castle in the west is difficult to obtain, from the south and east of the fortress to protect the steep walls of mountains sloping down to the sea from the north-east was dug a deep ditch.
The castle two layers of defense - the top and bottom. The lower tier is protected by a wall 8.6 meters high and 1,5-2 m thick. Wall reinforced by fourteen fighting towers 15 meters high and complex main gate. Each tower was called the name of the consul, in which it was, talking about it still exist on some towers plate with heraldic symbols and inscriptions in medieval Latin.
upper tier defense included the tower and Consular locking, combined in one set of wall runs along the very crest of the mountain, as well as a set of Sentinel Tower.
between the upper and lower tiers of the defense settled down town.
