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New Athos Simon Kananitsky monastery was founded in the Caucasus, Abkhazia, 120 years ago and for 50 years until the closure and bankruptcy , was a major center of Christian education and spiritual life for the entire Caucasus region , an example of piety and diligence for its residents.\r\n\r\nTo get to the monastery is not difficult.It is visible from almost anywhere , where would you ...
Gudauta area . New Athos. Sightseeings Architecture Churches and cathedrals
After turning on the road to the waterfall Gegsky Ritsu goes along the river Yupshara on Yupsharskih gorge. This is one of the finest places in the Caucasus , famous for its unique beauty . The gorge - 8 km. Becomes steeper path . Sharp close up the mountain. Noticeably darker. With half a kilometer sheer curtain hanging green and reddish moss.It starts with the most magnificent and maje...
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The mountains surrounding the lake - from 2200 to 3500 meters. Even in summer they can see the snow. Matrix formed as a result of landslide , which blocked the river bed Lashipsa .\r\n\r\nThe area of the Ritsa - 1.27 square meters. km . , Length - 2430 m, width - 870 m , depth - 130 m length of coastline - more than 6 km . The water temperature in summer reaches 22 C.Precipitation fall...
New Athos Cave - one of the largest caves in the world , rivaling in size with the largest dungeons of the world, as Shkotsianskaya cave in Slovenia and Carlsbad in the U.S.. Located in Abkhazia under the Iberian slope of the mountain. Represents a huge caverns of about 1 million m ³.\r\n\r\nCave discovered in 1961 by Givi Shalvovich Smyr .Caves in 1975.
Gudauta area . New Athos. Sightseeings Nature Пещеры и Гроты
This place is situated on the road to the lake residents call the Ritz : Observation deck Farewell my homeland.It is the belief , or according to eyewitnesses name came from the fact that from the precipice broke down trucks with young recruits , who cried in the last burst of these patriotic words\r\nAccording to one version, it happened during the Second World War, on the other - in th...
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Lashkendar ruins of the monastery are on the side of the mountain of the same name (maximum altitude 1373 m ) at 945 m above sea level. From ruins to go Tkuarchal 5-6 km , they are hidden by vegetation. Around the main temple in the past was a 100- meter high wall . On the southern front , near the entrance - a stone slab engraved with a cross on it .
Tkuarchalsky area . Tkuarchal . Sightseeings Architecture Churches and cathedrals
Temple of the Holy Apostle Simon the Canaanite in New Athos is a unique monument of medieval architecture. It was erected near the place where the Apostle lived . The temple was built on the banks of the river Psyrtsha at the burial site of the apostle , the relics of the period of greatest prosperity of the Abkhazian kingdom in IX-X century.The temple was the burial place of the higher ...
Gudauta area . New Athos. Sightseeings Architecture Churches and cathedrals
Anakopii ancient citadel - the first, a small fortification Abazgs , appeared in the IV-V centuries . Apsarskoy on the mountain. The temple dates back to the citadel of VI-VIII cc. and built on the site of the ancient sanctuary of Abkhazia . The temple was rebuilt in the XI century. and dedicated to St. Theodore .\r\nIn VIII . Anakopiya became the capital of the kingdom Abazgskogo .
In the village of WIOC Ochamchira district is famous Mokvsky Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , built in the third quarter of the tenth century, the Abkhaz king of Leon III (955-957 years).Mokvsky Cathedral is the only five-naval cross- domed church, the final development of early medieval ecclesiastical architecture in Abkhazia, which began back in the VII - X cent...
Ochamchira district . Ochamchira. Sightseeings Architecture Churches and cathedrals
Patriarchal Cathedral in Pitsunda in honor of the Apostle Andrew. Built in Pitsunda ( Pitiunt ) at the beginning of X century during the reign of the Georgian King Bagrat III of the House of Bagration is the nephew of the last king of Abkhazia Theodosius.\r\n\r\nPitsundsky cathedral in the middle of the X century became the Department of Abkhaz Catholicos .Here there were elections Catho...
Gudauta area . New Athos. Sightseeings Architecture Churches and cathedrals