All major attractions are concentrated in the center of Odessa city, and we will start our online journey via Odessa from the Greek square. After a total renovation in 2005, the square became more beautiful and comfortable. Here were opened the two fountains and put benches.

Greek Square is located in the very heart of Odessa and adjacent to Deribasovskaya Street. This square is the largest and central in the city. It has the shape of the oblong rectangle and is paved with the granite tile. There are several flower beds, two fountains on the square and in the center there is the oval building – trade center “Athena”. On the edges of the Greek Square there are built two semicircular buildings. Initially Ekaterina II planned to resettle the orthodox peoples to Odessa, which were under oppression of the Ottoman Empire. Thus the Greeks were the major part of the Odessa’s population in the first times of the city’s existence. The Greek diaspora has contributed a lot in the development of the city, and the grateful Odessa citizens opened the museum “Filiki Eteria” (Society of Friends) on the Greek Square. In 2004 there was opened the monument to Odessa mayor Marazli on the Greek Square, who was the Greek by origin. But the monument was moved some years later on the unknown reasons.

Museum Filiki Eteria “(” Society of Friends “- from the Greek language) operates in Odessa since 1979, first as a department of historical and museum of the city.

In September 1994, during the celebration of 200 anniversary of the founding of the city, in Odessa in the buildings of the Red lane № 16-20 was opened branch of the Hellenic Foundation of Culture (Centre in Athens). These buildings are on concessional terms, the city administration handed over to the branch, with which it works with those then translated here Museum Filiki Eteria. This is his place in history.

In the past, these buildings belonged to the Greeks and it was here in 1814, was a secret revolutionary-patriotic organization Filiki Eteria, which prepared the Greeks to fight for independence and forever linked the history of Odessa with the history of nation-state revival of Greece.

The museum was founded by the Greek Foundation of Culture in cooperation with the Odessa regional historical museum, which has provided a number of exhibits from the history Filiki Eteria, supplemented by exact copies of artifacts from museums in Greece, particularly from an ethnological and historical societies in Greece.

In 2004, after the long years of building, there was opened the trade center “Athena” on the Greek Square, one of the highest buildings in the historical part of the city. Before its construction, there was the other oval building, which was dismantled in 90th due to worthlessness. The construction of the trade center was carried out by the Greek Company, 10 workers of which died during the flight to Odessa. In honour to the victims of the accident there is set the memorial board with the names of the lost people on the ground floor of the trade center under the monument of Athena.

A decoration of the square is still a 4-storey shopping center "Athena", which is one of the largest in the city. You can not just go via the variety of boutiques, but have a very tasty and inexpensive lunch in the restaurant complex in Tavriya.

Moving further from the Greek square we get to the Preobrazhenskaya street. Here we see the largest orthodox church in Odessa - the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral. It was founded in 1794, It has the tragical history. The most significant tragedy of which was the complete looting and destruction in 1936.