Cape Sukhumi is located in the northwestern part of the city and limits the Sukhumi bay, deeply cutting into the Black Sea. On the shores of the bay were comfortable Greek, Roman and Byzantine settlement. With the development of regular navigation on the cape it was put lighthouse, warning sailors of coastal cliffs and also serves as a navigation mark, especially at night and in bad weather.

Specialists of the famous French firm Ernest Couin produced signal structure of riveted steel sheet. The construction on the Cape a stone tower on the inside the cast iron spiral staircase lasted about five months. With the powerful screw pile lighthouse consolidated base in Cape sandy soil and integrated lighting tower, and in 1861 the lighthouse oil lamp illuminated the waters of Sukhumi Bay. Established later the more powerful lamp and reflector system was dismantled and taken away the Turks in 1887, but after six months, the functionality of the lighthouse has been restored.

The total height of the lighthouse is 37 meters, the viewing platform you can climb, breaking the 137 well-preserved steps of a spiral staircase. Horizon Lighting lighthouse is more than twenty kilometers. On the observation deck, even in a group you can enjoy the amazing panorama of Sukhumi, Novy Afon and Sukhumi bay, a bird's-eye remember the famous line about proudly fluttering Petrel.

Due to the lack of funding in 2000, the lighthouse is temporarily unable to work, but now he again takes tourists and is one of the attractions of this holiday region.