New Athos

New Athos (or Novy Afon) is a town on the Black Sea Coast of Abkhazia, northwest of Sukhumi.

Understand
Town exists since the 3rd century when it was a large ancient Greek port town of Anacopia. And its ruins still could be found in outskirts of New Athos.

The town is named after Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic territory in Greece, where the founders of the local monastery resettled from in 1874.

By bus
By bus from Sukhumi (₽50,, 45 min), Gudauta and  from the Russian border at Vesyoloye, near Sochi.

See




Do

 * Swim in the sea at local Akhali Atoni Beach

Drink

 * Local wine
 * Beer: Sukhumskoe Pivo