Showing posts with label Pitsunda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pitsunda. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2012

Abkhazia part 5 - Pitsunda

Pitsunda located on a sandy promontory near the mouth of the river Bzyb. This cape is a marine terrace formed by redeposition of sea debris Submitted Bzyb waters.
With a history of Cape Pitsunda relates an interesting legend that one day, when enemies besieged Pitsunda, all male soldiers were killed in a battle. Women, children and old men had taken refuge in the tower, located in the center of the settlement. Enemies burned all the houses and asked them to surrender, but the brave men refused. In the besieged people out of stock, and water, to pump water from Bzyb, was blocked.