Sights of Anapa. Spring «At the Eagle»

The spring «At the Eagle» is the first attraction, which is met by travelers traveling to Anapa «on their own».

This source is located on the Novorossiysk highway, 15 kilometers from the city at the side of the road. He makes his way at the foot of the hill under the canopy of trees. Someone surrounded it with stones and put the stone eagle on a pile of other shapeless stones, connected with cement.

The spring does not belong either to mineral healing springs or to saints..

But there are always people near him, even in the cold season. And there is nothing to say about the summer season. In the heat, there is even a line here quite often. The spring water is very clean and cold. And although it is customary to say about water that it has no taste, people consider the water from the «At the Eagle» spring very tasty. Wedding corteges also come here quite often. Young people are given a cup of crystal clear water to drink, so that their life together also becomes so crystal clear and happy..

During excursions outside the city, the guides always stop the bus near the spring in order to «pamper» tourists with water and legends about the spring. According to one of the legends popular among guides about how the god Dionysus wandered into these places while walking the earth with his retinue. He saw beautiful vineyards and many people working in them. But people cultivated grapes only to eat them, dry them for raisins, make juice out of them..

Dionysus decided to show people what else can be made from grapes.

He struck with a stick on the ground and from the place of impact hammered a spring with wondrous intoxicating «water». Dionysus told people that this wine and this wine they can make themselves from grapes.

A year later, Dionysus decided to see how people learned to make wine. He found here complete desolation, perishing vineyards, and people in drunken crowds wandered around and sang drunken songs. Then Dionysus closed the spring, laid it with stones and put an eagle there to guard the wine spring. And nearby, with a blow of a stick, he opened a spring with plain water for the thirsty. According to legend, the eagle was planted the same one that once pecked at the heart and liver of Prometheus. People began to work in the vineyards again, collecting large harvests from them..

This is the legend that most of the guides tell..

Now, after the grape harvest, a wine festival is held in these places. This holiday is usually held in September. After the celebration, young wine is played.

If fate throws someone in these places, let him try some water from the «At the Eagle» spring.

For those who want to have a good rest and at the same time get to this and other attractions in the suburbs of Anapa, a favorable booking of sanatoriums in Vityazevo is available. In them you will not only find an overnight stay, but you can also take care of your health and receive medical treatment..