The Marly tower is the oldest architectural monument in the town of Gagra. Strengthening situated at the mouth of the river Laquari, near the famous Abkhazian fortress Abaata. The tower was named in honor of the Decembrist Bestuzhev-Marly, who served in the garrison.

The building was built in order to ensure the safety of which is located in the fortress garrison, from the endless attacks of the warlike mountaineers of the North-Western Caucasus. So Marly tower was erected in the place where the highlanders were able to get past one ridge and go to another. By order of the General Muravyov-Amursky in a radius of about two kilometers from the fortress, including the gorge Laquari where the tower was carved wood. The transition of the highlanders was the only place of crossing.

Tower Marly is a sentry build. It was made in a cylinder shape and built of stone boulders somewhere in the middle of the NINETEENTH century is Interesting is that the construction of fortifications was headed by Lieutenant Colonel K. P. Danzas, which famous Russian poet A. S. Pushkin a few years previously invited to be his second in the duel with d'anthes.

Until today located in the resort town of Gagra tower Marly, unfortunately, has not survived. It remains only picturesque ruins in the green of the summer trees. The destruction of the tower one hundred years after its construction contributed to the severe flooding that occurred in 1940 At the present time the remains of fortress grey wall is a fence that separates two private houses.