Between the village and the lake is "Lakite" (Bulgarian:„Лъките“) – an exceptionally lush area of predominantly flat terrain, and is the result of the deposition of nearby river Izvorska at its mouth.

The Medieval fort of Skafida housed a harbor, at which during the Middle Ages seafaring ships dock, as the navigable Lake Mandrensko was, even then, connected to the Black Sea via a natural waterway.

The remains of a mighty square tower with wall length of 6 m, once again of brick stone and white mortar, can still be found on the shores of the outflow of the lake.

Describing the events of the Byzantine–Bulgarian wars, in the spring of 1304, Georgi Pahimer tells that following the flash advance of Tsar Svetoslav, during which the Bulgarians conquer the fortresses lining the South Black Sea coast all the way down to Sozopol, one of the Byzantine armies, headed by Michael Doukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes and despot Voisil, brother of Tsar Smilets of Bulgaria, commenced a counter-advance from the Byzantine city of Vize.

Taking into account the structural durability of the bridge, historians agree that its collapse was most likely planned and executed by the Bulgarians, led by Tsar Theodore Svetoslav.

It describes the count's uneasy siege of the port-town of Skafida, coming from Sozopol, and the destruction of the many Ottoman ships anchored at the docks.

[4] In close proximity to the village, at around 800 m from its center, river Fakia flows into Lake Mandrensko, in an exceptionally beautiful and verdant area.