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Sochi Autodrom
A semi-street circuit built around the 2014 Winter Olympics park, known for its long straights and sweeping turns along the Black Sea coast.
41 km · about 50 min drive
Abkhazia, Georgia · Asia
Bich’vinta sits on the route: 15 minutes from At’idzt’a, 41km from Sochi Autodrom.
Bich’vinta is a town located in Abkhazia, Georgia. With a population of 3,986, it is an important destination in Asia.
On a road trip, Bich’vinta sits in Georgia, where you drive on the right. It's in the Asia/Tbilisi time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Bich’vinta to your route.
The Cathedral of St. Andrew the Apostle (Russian: Собор в честь Апостола Андрея Первозванного, romanized: Sobor v chest' Apostola Andreya Pervozvannogo), also known as the Pitsunda Cathedral (Abkhaz: Пицундатәи ауахәама, romanized: Ṗicundaṭ°i awax°ama) or Bichvinta Cathedral (Georgian: ბიჭვინთის ტაძარი, romanized:Read more
bich'vintis t'adzari) is an Eastern Orthodox Cathedral located in Pitsunda, in the Gagra District of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, internationally recognised as constituting a part of Georgia. The cathedral is currently used by the schismatic Abkhazian Orthodox Church and serves as that body's seat, although this usage is disputed by the Georgian Orthodox Church and is considered irregular by the Eastern Orthodox communion generally.
Pitsunda Cathedral was built at the end of the 10th century by King Bagrat III of Georgia. It served as the seat of the Georgian Orthodox Catholicate of Abkhazia until the late 16th century when Abkhazia came under the Ottoman hegemony. According to 17th century French traveller Jean Chardin, Catholicos, who no longer lived in Pitsunda, visited the cathedral once a year with the retinue of bishops and princes to perform the sanctification of chrism. The cathedral was reconsecrated in 1869 when Abkhazia was already a part of Russian Empire.
It is a cross-domed cathedral with three naves and three apses, shaped as a rectangle with extending semicircular apses. It holds a pipe organ from the Alexander Schuke factory in Potsdam, Germany, installed in 1975. The cathedral is notable for its impressive size, reaching 29 m high (including the dome), 37 m long and 25 m wide; the walls are up to 1.5 m thick. The building rests on heavy slabs of grey sandstone; the walls are made up of alternating rows of stone and brickwork, a typical technique for late Byzantine architecture. The cathedral contains vestiges of wall-painting from the 13th and the 16th centuries. A 12th-century Georgian manuscript of the Four Gospels, found at the cathedral in 1830, is now preserved at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts in Tbilisi.
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Bich’vinta is located in Abkhazia, Georgia, Asia. The coordinates are 43.1593 latitude, 40.3398 longitude.
Bich’vinta has a population of approximately 3,986 people, making it a town in Georgia.
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A semi-street circuit built around the 2014 Winter Olympics park, known for its long straights and sweeping turns along the Black Sea coast.
41 km · about 50 min drive
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