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Things to do in Batumi

Landmarks, museums, parks, monuments, nightlife and casinos.

Landmarks

Batumi Mosque (Orta Jame)

ბათუმის მეჩეთი

Batumi's only active mosque, a 19th-century Ottoman-style building with a golden dome.

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Parks & gardens

Batumi New Boulevard

Modern 2009 extension of Batumi's seaside boulevard, with Ardagani Lake and its dancing fountain.

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Batumi Piazza

ბათუმის პიაცა

Italian-style square in Old Batumi with cafés, a clock tower and a large marble mosaic.

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Batumi Summer Theater

ბათუმის საზაფხულო თეატრი

Open-air theatre on Batumi Boulevard, built in 1947 and rebuilt in 2013.

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Batumi Tower

Skyscraper completed in 2012 with a Ferris wheel built into one corner of its facade.

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Demetrius II of Georgia

დემეტრე II თავდადებული

A street-name plaque in Batumi commemorates King Demetrius II of Georgia, known as Demetre Tavdadebuli, the Self-Sacrificer, after whom the street is named.

Monuments & public art

Egnate Ninoshvili

ეგნატე ნინოშვილი

A memorial plaque at 36 Zviad Gamsakhurdia Street in Old Batumi marks the house where the Georgian writer Egnate Ninoshvili stayed in March 1894.

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Gonio Fortress

გონიოს ციხე

A Roman-era fortress 12 km south of Batumi, with 18 towers and a museum.

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Ilia II

ილია II

A plaque at Saint Nicholas Church in Batumi marks where Georgian Patriarch Ilia II began his ministry and served until 1963.

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Illegal typography of the RSDLP

რსდმპ-ის არალეგალური სტამბები

A plaque in Batumi marks the house where the Batumi committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ran an illegal printing press in 1903–1904.

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Iusup Khuseinis-Dze Tsivadze

იუსუფ ხუსეინის-ძე ცივაძე

A memorial plaque near Khariton Akhvlediani Street in Batumi marks the house where the jurist and educator Iusup Tsivadze lived and worked.

Museums & galleries

Khariton Akhvlediani Museum of Ajara (Adjara State Museum)

ხარიტონ ახვლედიანის სახელობის მუზეუმი

One of Georgia's oldest museums, founded 1908, holding about 180,000 items on Adjara's history and nature.

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Koki Abashidze

კოკი აბაშიძე

A memorial plaque at 21 Kutaisi Street in Old Batumi marks the house of the architect and Merited Engineer of Georgia Koki Abashidze.

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Lesya Ukrainka

ლესია უკრაინკა

A memorial plaque in Old Batumi records that the Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka lived in the building in 1907, 1908, 1911 and 1912.

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Luka Asatiani

ლუკა ასათიანი

A memorial plaque in Batumi marks the house where the public figure Luka Asatiani lived from 1895 to 1901.

Parks & gardens

Makhuntseti Waterfall

მახუნცეთის ჩანჩქერი

50-metre waterfall above the Adjaristsqali river in Zeda Makhuntseti, Keda Municipality.

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Medea Monument (Europe Square)

მედეას ძეგლი

Bronze statue of Medea holding the Golden Fleece, unveiled in 2007 on Europe Square.

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Parks & gardens

Mtirala National Park

მტირალას ეროვნული პარკი

Rainy Colchic forest park about 25 km from Batumi, with waterfall, lake and hiking trails.

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Old Batumi (Old Town)

ძველი ბათუმი

Batumi's historic quarter of narrow paved streets, balconied houses and places of worship of many faiths.

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Otar and Tamaz Chiladze

თამაზ და ოთარ ჭილაძეები

A granite memorial plaque near Luka Asatiani Street in Old Batumi marks the house where the writers Tamaz and Otar Chiladze lived.