Arcadia Beach
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Arcadia beach (Arkadia, Arkadiya) (Russian: Пляж Аркадия) is Odessa, Ukraine's most famous beach. The beach was named after a mountainous district in Greece, which was known as the home of pastoral villagers.
The founders of Odessa chose this name for this area in the hopes it would help make is a success as a holiday resort. It worked, today Arcadia is the most popular beach, health resort, and summer nightspot in Odessa.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kononova, G. (1984). Odessa: A Guide. Moscow: Raduga Publishers. p. 127.
[edit] External links
- Map of Arcadia. Retrieved on 2006-08-13.
| Attractions in Odessa, Ukraine |  |
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| Arcadia Beach • Childrens Palace • Botanical Gardens • Catacombs • City council building • Deribasovskaya Street • Film Studio • Londonskaya Hotel • Monument to Potemkin sailors • Mother-in-Law's Bridge • Opera Theater • Odessa Passazh • Pushkin Museum • Sea Port •Train Station • Park Pobedeh • Philharmonic theater • Potemkin Stairs • Primorsky Boulevard • Privoz Market • Seventh-Kilometer Market • Shevchenko Park • Tsentralnyi-Chornomorets Stadium • Vorontsov Lighthouse |
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