Lykhny

Lykhny (Georgian: ლიხნი; Abkhaz: Лыхны) is a village in the Gudauta District of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast.

Of particular importance are the 10-11th century Church of the Virgin Mary and the ruins of a two-storey palace which was used as a residence by the princes of Abkhazia (the palace collapsed in 1866 when the Russian punitive expedition attacked the village).

An older monument, the fortress of Abaanta (built in the 7th century) is located at the edge of the village on the left bank of the Khipsta River.

Lykhnashta, a large square located centrally in the village, is one of the seven shrines of the Abkhaz people and the place where is held the harvest festival every October.

[3] Abkhaz Communist revolutionary Nestor Lakoba was born in Lykhny in 1893.

Ruins of the palace of the Shervashidze princes