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Do you know that Crimea has its own sphinxes? And although they are not man-made, like the famous Egyptian Sphinx, nevertheless such the same mysterious and amazing.
These are the most beautiful landscape monuments of the multifaceted Crimean nature. It is no accident during the Soviet Union on the peninsula even the most fantastic films were shot, as, by the way, paintings that imitate many corners of our oromnoy world, sometimes completely opposite in climate. Here is such a Crimea: here you and the sea, and mountains, and palm trees, and snow – and much more. Therein including the Crimean sphinxes.
Sphinxes of the Karalez (Royal) Valley Monumentically Rise near the village of Zalesnoye – this is not far from the famous Mangup. If If you go from Simferopol to Bakhchisaray, you can see them right from roads – these bizarre stone statues that created the wind and rains, time and playful whim of nature …
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In the photo: “Sphinx” on top of Demerdzhi
In fact, it’s just rock blocks, as if “straddled” the stone peak (stone ridge) of Uzun-Tarla hill (in Crimea ancient names are mainly of Tatar origin, and therefore so romantic). The highest sphinx reaches a height of 15 meters, the rest a little less, but not that attractiveness, but in the fact that they are really very similar to man-made sculptures, which is why many independent researchers involuntarily they begin to ascribe human qualities to nature.
However, this Crimean miracle is really amazing, especially since from different angles and distances the sphinxes look in different ways, then they come to life, they begin to fascinate, attract – practically bewitch you. No wonder at that case believe with the legend that surround these stone statues.
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By the way, locals call them dolls, and each such a doll has its own name. For example, the largest of them is Yule-Kaya – Pregnant. Next to her is Syuyuru-Kaya – Pointed, a little further – Chuyun-Kaya, then a couple of flat-faced dolls, nicknamed “chests” – Sandyk-Kaya, and closes this string of sphinxes of Crimea – Shepke-Kaya, a stone sculpture very similar to a hat.
By the way, some guests of ancient Tauris, faced with these natural sculptures, associate them with stone sculptures Easter islands. There is something common, of course, but here Mother Nature worked, not people, though it doesn’t Crimean sphinxes are less attractive and mysterious. Some kind there is a secret in all this, isn’t it? ..
Crimea Dolls Sculptures
