Landmarks
Apollo
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Apollo is a historic three-storey cinema on Memed Abashidze Street in Batumi, in operation since around 1910 and still showing films today.
Apollo is a historic cinema in Batumi. The building at 17 Memed Abashidze Street is a three-storey Art Nouveau structure with large arched windows, moulded garlands and reliefs of symbolic figures. A cinema has operated here since around 1910, and the hall celebrated its centenary in 2011. In the Soviet period it was renamed October, and it regained the Apollo name in the 1990s. Today it screens Hollywood, Georgian and international films and is the main venue of the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, held in the second half of September.
Sources
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- The Apolo film theater (Georgia Travel), consulted on 21 October 2026.
- Cinema Apollo Batumi (Visit Ajara), consulted on 21 October 2026.
- City of culture and art: Cinema, music and theater (Visit Batumi), consulted on 21 October 2026.
