In Abkhazia, on the shores of the Black Sea is located amazing beauty city – the resort of Pitsunda (Pitsunda), having Mediterranean subtropical climate, making it a favorite a place of many vacationers. If you are going to rest in Abkhazia, Think about Pitsunda.
Rest in Abkhazia Pitsunda
The name of the city comes from the Greek word “pitius”, which means pine. The city is simply immersed in the greenery of pine forests, healing properties which make the place especially popular for people wishing to improve their health. For this, the city operates a wide network of recreational complexes, holiday homes and guesthouses, the most famous of which is Pitsunda Resort, Boxwood Grove, Riviera and many others, each of which unique in its own way, having its own unique architectural style and amazing, sometimes reserved, natural territory.
Abkhazia. Pension Box Grove.
A separate conversation deserves Pitsunda pine grove itself – a place where a unique pine tree grows, the same age as the dinosaurs themselves.
Abkhazia. Pitsunda Abandoned dining room.
Sights of Pitsunda
The main attractions of the city are the sun, pine and the cleanest sea with its small pebble beaches. Temperature air in the summer here, on average, about 23 ° C (average temperature August), and the winter is very mild with an average temperature January 6 ° C. In addition, the resort is surrounded by Caucasian mountain ranges that protects the terrain from cold sea winds.
Abkhazia. Pitsunda
Of course, traces of war are everywhere – many buildings are thrown on the arbitrariness of fate, and nature gradually absorbs all creations human hands. But on the other hand, because of this, there still is clean, and not so many tourists. Accordingly, you do not have to feel like a herring on the beach.
More photos and a story about our trip to Abkhazia can be read here: Abkhazia in one day: Pitsunda, Ritsa, New Athos
Yes, it was a day trip, but the idea of a holiday in Abkhazia we got complete. In addition, many of our friends and acquaintances traveled there and complemented our impressions.
There is in Pitsunda and architectural landmark, heritage Middle Ages – Pitsunda Temple, built in honor of the Apostle Andrew the First Called. A temple more like a castle was built in the 10th century, which accounted for the reign of the Georgian king Bagrat third – from the dynasty of the ancient Georgian royal family – Bagration
Until the 17th century, the temple was constantly improved and completed, until The danger of Turkish expansion has not hung over the city. At the time of the temple was abandoned and only in the middle of the 19th century was it re-used and consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Virgin. Now there are evenings organ music.
As for the history of the resort city itself, it must be said that The first signs of human life in this place are recorded as early as 4 at. BC Oe., where, later, the Greeks founded the city and the port of Pitiund (Pitiunt). Until the beginning of our era, the city was part of the Pontic kingdom, and, already, since the 4th century, the center was founded here Christianity in the Caucasus.
At the end of the 8th century, Pitiund entered the Abkhazian kingdom and was there until the 17th century, when this land fell under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Under the authority of the Russian Empire, the city fell only in the early 19 century.
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