Must-see attractions in Adjara

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    Batumi Boulevard

    Batumi

    Everyone soon finds themselves strolling along Batumis bulvari, the park strip fronting the main beach, originally laid out in 1884 and now stretching 7km…

  • Batumi Botanical Garden

    Batumi

    Batumi’s Botanical Garden, 8km northeast of town, was founded in 1912 by Russian botanist Andrei Krasnov. With many subtropical and foreign species, it…

  • Batumi Archeological Museum

    Batumi

    This excellent museum showcases some of the many valuable archaeological discoveries made in Adjara, particularly at the Gonio Apsaros Fortress. The main…

  • Gonio Apsaros Fortress

    Adjara

    Gonio's fortress, an impressive piece of Roman-Byzantine military architecture, covers 47,000 sq metres within a rectangle of high stone walls with 18…

  • Ali & Nino

    Batumi

    The 7m-high, ethereally moving, metal sculpture Woman and Man, by Tamar Kvesitadze, is universally known as Ali & Nino after the protagonists of Kurban…

  • Cable Car

    Batumi

    This 2.6km-long cable car carries you up to a shopping-cafe-restaurant complex on Anuria Hill, 2586m above Batumi, for panoramic views over the city. It's…

  • Ortajame Mosque

    Batumi

    Batumi’s only surviving mosque, built in the 1860s, is finely painted in pinks, greens and blues, with Quranic calligraphy on the walls – but is no longer…

  • Medea Monument

    Batumi

    Towering over Evropas moedani is this striking portrayal of Medea, the local princess who would help her future husband Jason obtain the Golden Fleece. A…

  • Batumi Tower

    Batumi

    Georgia's tallest building (even if much of it is its needle), the 200m-high Batumi Tower boasts a mini Ferris wheel of deeply questionable aesthetic…

  • Cable Car

    Adjara

    At Khulo a tiny podlike cable car of indeterminate Soviet vintage swings you across the yawning valley to the village of Tago high on the opposite slope…

  • Khikhani Fortress

    Adjara

    One spectacular and remote destination worth journeying to is the ruined 13th-century Khikhani Fortress on a 2200m hilltop 33km southeast from Zamleti,…

  • Evropas Moedani

    Batumi

    Broad Europe Sq is surrounded by beautiful belle-époque buildings – renovated survivors from Batumi's original heyday, plus new buildings in a similar…

  • Adjara Arts Museum

    Batumi

    Well displayed and well lit in an attractive neoclassical Soviet building, the small permanent collection upstairs covers Georgian art from the late 19th…

  • Dancing Fountains

    Batumi

    On the southern part of the boulevard, known as the New Boulevard, an ornamental lake hosts the Dancing Fountains, an entertaining laser, music and water…

  • Alphabet Tower

    Batumi

    This 145m-high monument to Georgian script and culture stands near the northeast tip of Batumis bulvari and can be climbed for stellar views.

  • Ferris Wheel

    Batumi

    This large Ferris wheel stands near the northeast tip of Batumis bulvari.

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