Urban Resorts, Cities and Tourist Locations of the World. Page 1

Urban Resorts, Cities and Tourist Locations

Odessa

Ukraine

Hero city Odessa is located on the Black Sea, is the administrative center of the Odessa region and the historic center Novorossiya, the largest port in Ukraine, a major industrial, cultural, scientific, and resort center is the hub of highways and railroads. The resort area of Odessa stretches for tens of kilometers on the Black Sea coast. One of the most popular resort and entertainment district of Odessa - Arcadia. On its territory there are motels and baths, a resort polyclinic, tourist facilities, hotels and numerous restaurants, a constellation of nightclubs and other entertainment establishments operating in the holiday season, 24 hours a day. The curative mud of estuaries of marine Black Sea beaches and mineral springs attract many tourists to Odessa.

Naxos

Greece

Naxos (in Greek, Νάξος) is a Greek island, the largest island (429 km2 (166 sq mi)) in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. In the heart of Cyclades, in the heart of Aegean, Naxos has, always, followed the destiny of adventure of residents of Aegean. Everything is big - imposing -, compared with the rest of Cyclades islands. The extent of the island is 435 sq. km and the length of coasts 91 km. The form is an ellipsoid and with a mountainous volume from North to South across the island. In the backbone of this ridge dominate Za Mountain (1004 m.) and Fanari (908 m.) the highest in Cyclades.

Lvov

Ukraine

Lviv - is the city in western Ukraine. It was founded in the middle of the 13th century by Prince Danylo Galytskiy, and named after his son Leo ("Lion") Leopolis. In different periods of its existence Lviv was a part of Poland, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russian empire and USSR. Since 1991 it is a part of the independent Ukraine. Lviv is on the edge of the Roztochia Upland, about 70 km from the Polish border and about 160 km (100 miles) from the eastern Carpathian Mountains. The old walled city was at the foothills of the High Castle on the banks of the river Poltva. In the 13th century, the river was used to transport goods. In the early 20th century, the Poltva was covered over in areas where it flows through the city. The river flows directly beneath the central street of Lviv, Freedom Avenue (Prospect Svobody) and the renowned Lviv Opera House