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BalaklavaSights

Fortress sights in Balaklava

  1. Genoese Fortress of Cembalo

    Unsurprisingly, others discovered this wonderful cove before the British navy; the settlement is about 2500 years old and even mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as a pirate's den. Today, the oldest surviving reminders of earlier habitation are the three towers from the 15th-century Genoese Fortress of Cembalo. These are probably still under scaffolding, as there's an (overly?) ambitious plan to reconstruct the entire fortress.

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