In Gagra is a large number of historical monuments that clearly reflect the events of the history of this region that took place over many centuries. The principal ones are: the fortress Abaata IV - V, or rather its ruins, the Church of the VI century, the ruins of the tower Bestuzhev-Marly 1841, Gagra colonnade 1951 and the Palace of the Prince of Oldenburg. However, among them, special attention also deserves interesting natural river gorge Cierva. "Cierva" in the Abkhaz language - "dry spring". Gorge Cierva is the natural border between the Old and New Gagra.

The beginning of the gorge is very poor in vegetation and is just a bare cleft in the mountains. Thus, attention may attract tourists, the old building of the former secondary school No. 2, became famous for its graduates - heroes of the Soviet Union. In this school I studied M Bostanjyan, R. Bartsits, Popkov and And Maltsev. Today the school is housed in the historical Museum of military glory, which stores a huge number of interesting exhibits, having a direct link with the participants of the Second world war, the former a native of Gagra and the Gagra district.

In the depths of the gorge Cierva is the cave of Yevpatiya (Euphrates), which is a stone building consisting of two small rooms. She was named after a monk of the Euphrates, lived here in the late second half of the NINETEENTH century Believers Abkhazians are very revered monk. In 527, by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I August Euphrates spread Christianity in Abkhazia.

Near the cave of Yevpatiya (Euphrates) is a road that leads into the gorge Cierva to the waterfall, behind which hid stalactite cave. Here poor vegetation changes dramatically on the vegetation of the Alpine and subalpine zones.

Some sections of the gorge of the river Cierva equipped with special viewing platforms, offering an amazing panorama of Gagra, Pitsunda, the valley of the river Bzyb river and the Mussera.