Viking Village in Crimea: features and location

Kinopark "Viking" - a place that is difficult to compare with something. A unique object, which today has become another attractive destination in the Crimea. This is not just an attraction, a theater or an amusement park, but a cultural and historical complex that has no analogues. Tourists travel to the peninsula, not only in order to see the legendary historical sites. They are witnessing the popularization of new, modern, unique. Such is the Viking village.

Attracts the very name - cinema. This is one of the largest European film parks. What does the movie have to do with it? The object is connected with the sensational historical film "Viking", in the main role of which Danila Kozlovsky starred.

Even skeptics, who even before viewing condemned the very idea of ​​making a film about Prince Vladimir and the baptism of Russia, still watched a movie - it was interesting to find out how realistically the creators show really old times.

Work on the blockbuster Andrei Kravchuk was long: 7 years went shooting (along with preparation for the process). Part of the scenes filmed in the Crimea.

All the buildings required historical accuracy: a group of historians supervised their creation. This was done not just for realism - the authors wanted to show how and where people of that time lived. In order to bring the world to life, the project creators studied not that dozens, but hundreds of scientific works, studied the museum collections of Pskov, Novgorod, Kiev, as well as the national museums of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark.

The film was shot in several places: at the studio "Glavkino" (Moscow region), in the steppes near Simferopol, on the Belogorsk reservoir (also in the Crimea). The director himself, regarding the choice of filming in the Crimea, said that the film crew needed large field sites with beautiful views, and the nature of Crimea turned out to be ideal for this.

In the Crimea, 30 kilometers from Simferopol, built a city of the past. Literally, in an open field in the Kizil-Koba valley, an art object interesting for adults and children is located on six hectares. By the way, if you are going to the famous Crimean waterfall Su-Uchkhan, then it does not cost anything to go to the village of the Vikings, all this is near.

From Simferopol from any station here buses or trolley buses run: choose the direction "Simferopol-Alushta", stop "Red Caves" (another name "Stadium"). Cross the road, and there you are already waiting for pointers. From Alushta the path will be the opposite.

The object is quite rightly called the cultural-historical center: it more than illustratively tells about the history of Russia, and the basis of these stories is the oldest preserved chronicle of the Tale of Bygone Years.

The Viking Village recreates the events of the year 862 and subsequent years: the vocation of the Varangians, the arrival of the Rurik dynasty, the Baptism of Russia. Habits, customs, crafts, games of the people who inhabited the territory of Russia in the IX-XI centuries, are presented here. In this place the historical rest merges with the adventure.Everyone here will find something according to their interests.

Visitors expect a varied program:

• historical tour of the medieval city;
• theatrical battles;
• visit the water mill;
• more than five dozen buildings and objects that are made in the style of early medieval architecture;
• contact zoo angle, where many pets can even be stroked;
• participation in quests;
• Visit to the Honey House of Prince Vladimir.

Evening programs can differ from daytime programs by organizing a fire show, a big bonfire, storming the gates and capturing the city (dramatized, of course).

Many excursions are organized as an exciting history lesson with full immersion in the era. The fortress gates and a palisade conceal the king’s house, the authentic market, the dwellings of artisans, the forge, the armory, the shooting range. Those interested can try on Viking armor, they can even throw a spear. Especially brave fighting in battle axes, archery. Finally, you can visit the medieval restaurant and feed the whole family.

A day in the park begins in an unusual way and continues under an exciting scenario. Just approaching the park, you already notice the roofs of the buildings and the tops of the watchtowers, you cross the authentic wooden bridge, and the staff meets you outside the gate. Previously, visitors who bought a ticket received a bag of pebbles (local currency), now this notion has been replaced by traditional ruble payment.

You will have a map with which you can explore the Borg. The card is on the back of the ticket: it is detailed and understandable. But if self-guided tour does not tempt you, you can walk with a guide, listen to an interesting story of a professional. If you feel that you are not so strong in history, in order to understand what objects are in front of you, it is better to turn to the guide.

And there is something to find out: how did the Vikings live, what was their life like? How were houses built? What did the wives and children of the Vikings? And after the tour you can walk around the territory yourself, take photos and video for memory. You will surely enjoy the fisherman’s house and courtyard, the house of woodcarving, and the house of tanning.

All these objects are beautiful as the keepers of ancient crafts, many of which are actively reviving today, acquire a new life. The place, the church and the stands are also interesting places to visit. And the bakery? And pottery? Before you really elegant reconstruction of the ancient village.

Some potential guests would love to see the reconstructed Viking village, but it is even more interesting for them to feel themselves as ancient warriors. And in a movie park it is real - what is the costumes of Viking armor alone, I already want to sit down and show off my prowess. And the ways of its demonstration right in front of you: competitions in archery are gambling and will really help you to show your strength. Or maybe you have long dreamed of trying a catapult-like device in action?

And visitors can try themselves in knife throwing, in slingshot shooting, in power games. For the less decisive, but still not content with a theoretical excursion, a master class on combat will be held. Girls can also join the manufacture of ancient motankov pupae.

Those who are prone to mysticism, and should go into the house to the soothsayer. But even if such prejudices are unusual for you, it is still interesting to listen to the ancient vedun.

Interesting for guests and the kitchen. Dishes are served that fit into the concept of a Viking village.

Consider the menu examples.

• Varangian cuisine chowders. The ancient warriors loved to warm up with a hot yushka of three kinds of fish, the dish was cooked over an open fire. The restaurant offers to taste a yushka on a pike perch, a perch, a ruff with carrots and fresh greens. Or, for example, Gavion, this is a festive soup that Tivertsi was treated to know. Quail light lentil soup with tomatoes and tomatoes will appeal to those who do not like very rich first courses.But uthgard is a mushroom soup cooked on homemade chicken meat.
• Byzantine cuisine. In this section - dishes that have entered the history of cooking. For example, likos - the famous Greek soup, where meat, noodles and greens are combined as well as possible. Or Agirov's ear is the most fragrant, fragrant soup that you want to eat to the last drop.
• Salads "Greek", "Byzantine", "Odyssey", "Poseidon", "Kronos", "Siren" - some of the names are worth it!

But not only food will remain a gastronomic impression after visiting a movie park. In the shop you can buy Crimean herbs and teas that will warm you at home as the best aromatic reminder of the peninsula. Numerous souvenirs are sold in the shops; a pottery shop can be made in the pottery workshop.

Today on the territory of the cinema park various festivals, festivals, corporate parties, photo shoots are held. Here they organize festivities, the Maslenitsa is held on this territory in a big way.

An adult ticket costs 650 rubles, a child’s ticket costs 450, children under five are free.

See the Viking village below.