Winery near the “witch” mountain, 10-kilometer embankment for weekend promenades and all-season jogging, clear sea a couple of minutes from the city, horseback riding tourism and local icewine.
Novorossiysk is more often perceived as a transit between Anapa and Gelendzhik, which from the point of view of an experienced traveler is completely wrong. This is the largest port in Russia and a cozy hero city with a balance of old merchant and modern architecture, where there is everything from wine tours to marine activities with relaxation by clear water and extreme surfing. Decide on the theme of the next weekend and save useful locations:
The long embankment, 10 km long, is the initial “tick” for those who want impressions right away, quickly and marked “beautiful” – with a view of the “layered” relief of the mountains of the Markhot ridge, a harbor with passenger and cargo ships, rocky shore and maritime heritage of the hero port city.
The route begins a little before the mooring site of the famous cruiser Kutuzov. The comfortably equipped embankment, which has been worked hard on in recent years, begins opposite the Consulate General of Greece and ends at the thin spit of Cape Sudzhuk. Along the “route” there are mirrored and pleasantly intimate shopping centers, a Hilton Garden Inn, a recently built lighthouse temple with a figured dome made of copper and gold, coffee shops and restaurants, convenient access to the water and several parks on the right side of the embankment – the Square of Heroes with the Eternal With fire, parks named after Frunze and named after Lenin, open memorial to the 1943 battle “Malaya Zemlya”. The extended route ends with a pebble spit that ends Aleksino beach. Here they go in for windsurfing and other sports, sunbathe, swim and simply take pictures with Vodyany and the heroes of Russian fairy tales looking out from the lake at the farthest point.
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We know that you are already hungry. A secret location for our own – a Georgian cafe-bakery without a noticeable sign with take-out food, lavash and various types of open and closed puri (Georgians call bread that way) from tone (Georgian oven-roaster). The menu under glass includes real Adyghe cheese on a skewer, kebab of everything possible: from fish and meat to shrimp and vegetables; stew, lamb ribs and other homemade food. A special recommendation is to take the finger-scalding cake that has just been removed from the tone. They bake them in three types – barely sweet with sesame seeds, classic puri (thick Georgian lavash) or closed puri with spicy beans – a worthy competition to Italian pizza calzone. There are always queues from the entrance to the bakery, but the local team solves the problem cheerfully – you won’t have to stand for long. Just the perfect time to decide on all the diversity.
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Shirokaya Balka – a beach with clear sea 15 minutes from the city center.
You can get there by minibus from the Central Bus Station (ticket – 50 rubles*, only cash is accepted, but sometimes you can arrange an online transfer) or by taxi.
After the picturesque serpentine road, a view of the Black Sea opens up and a beach stretching for a couple of kilometers begins. At the very beginning – a secluded holiday with infrequent sunbathers, but with a more “sophisticated” approach to the water. A little further – cafes, grocery stores, locker rooms, hotels, a comfortable shore with buoys and boundary lines for the safety of children, paddle boarding and flyboard (flyboard, hoverboard) – the same “boots” in which you can fly over the water.
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If you go further, protected areas and semi-closed beaches will open (on some they have nudes). Only here you will need effort on foot and the spirit of an explorer – you can walk all day. At the end of autumn, even the central beach is completely uninhabited, but just half an hour of walking and practicing sea contemplation will charge you for the month ahead.
Horseback riding – for those who want to breathe more active mountain air.
If you’ve never sat in the saddle, it’s time to try it. Routes vary in level of difficulty and endurance – from 45-minute explorations to two-hour excursions around the Cossack Outpost in Praskoveevka and 11-hour tours through the protected Maly Utrish with juniper-infused air. Seriously focused or want new skills? Take a closer look at horse riding training programs. To comprehend art in the center of the Cossacks is the best thing.
Wake park and wake hostel Wake Bro, where they want to make everyone who misses the water their bro.
Community is grown here. For this – more than 10 years of experience in sports, a co-working space with coffee, smoothie (and not only) bar and handmade functional food, a store with the necessary equipment, a wake park, a swimming pool with a children’s area. And also – the opportunity to live the life of a surfer – in a campsite (from 500 rubles*), tents (from 1000 rubles*), a guest house (6,000 rubles* for a house for four) or a hostel (from 1,500 rubles*). They ride like on a boat (wakesurfing from 3,000 rubles* per hour for the entire team of up to five people), and on a winch (wakeboarding from 300 rubles* for a five-minute set).
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The first and only gravity winery in Russia, Chateau Pinot, is for wine enthusiasts and those who want to believe in Russian wine. And he will believe.
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The winery is located on the way to Shirokaya Balka. On the left side is the highest point of Novorossiysk – Mount Koldun, 111 hectares of vineyards at an altitude of 180 to 270 meters above sea level. On the right is the winery itself, a snail farm and a restaurant. What is noteworthy is that the history of local wine dates back to the 5th century AD. It was in this place that the citizens of the Bosporan kingdom made their wine.
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Gravity at Chateau Pinot is used as part of eno-innovations – the difference in height between the point of receiving the grapes and the bottling shop allows wine to be made under the force of gravity. The collection includes full-bodied Shiraz, mineral Riesling, fresh Pinot Grigio, glorified in David Lynch’s films, Pinot Noir, daring petnuts, sparkling wines aged in French oak and even ice wine. You can try samples and local snails in different sauces during a tour or in the restaurant at the winery with a view of the Sorcerer and his “balls” – the popular name for an abandoned weather station. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. until the last guest, reservations are required.
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By the way, one of the wine finds is the limited edition Sorcerer’s Balls wine. The limit is set by nature itself – the drink was obtained as a result of the team’s experiment and the post-effect of the Novorossiysk boron wind, which left drops of sea water on the berries.
*Prices valid at time of publication
