Batumi Highlights
A curated tour of Batumi's Black Sea old town, boulevard landmarks, and nearby day-trip sites.
Trip Stops
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Batumi's showcase square, ringed by 19th-century architecture and centered on the bronze Statue of Medea holding the Golden Fleece. The square was renamed from 'Era Square' in 1997 after Adjara joined the Assembly of European Regions.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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An Italian-style plaza built in 2010 around a 106-square-meter marble mosaic said to be the largest figurative marble mosaic in Europe. Its clock tower, modeled on Venice's St. Mark's Campanile, chimes with moving mechanical figures.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A Gothic Revival cathedral built 1898-1903 as a Catholic church for the Zubalashvili brothers, later repurposed as a Soviet high-voltage laboratory before returning to worship in 1989. It's now Batumi's main Georgian Orthodox cathedral, despite its unmistakably Western European silhouette.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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Home to works by celebrated Georgian painters including Niko Pirosmani and Lado Gudiashvili, alongside sculpture and decorative arts. It's one of the region's main venues for Georgian fine art outside Tbilisi.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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One of Georgia's oldest museums, holding artifacts tracing the region's history from the Bronze Age through the ancient kingdom of Colchis. Its collection anchors Batumi's role in the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, who sailed these waters chasing the Golden Fleece.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A seaside promenade stretching roughly 7 kilometers along the Black Sea, first laid out in 1881 and once nominated alongside the Eiffel Tower and Colosseum for a World Travel Award. It holds over 40,000 trees and plants and strings together most of Batumi's best-known landmarks.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A 7-meter kinetic steel sculpture that slowly merges two figures together each evening before pulling them apart again, inspired by the star-crossed lovers of the 1937 novel 'Ali and Nino'. Created by Georgian artist Tamara Kvesitadze, it's become Batumi's most photographed symbol of love across cultures.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A 130-meter tower whose double-helix frame is studded with all 33 letters of the Georgian alphabet, built in 2011 to celebrate a script found nowhere else on Earth. An elevator climbs to an observation deck inside a silver orb at the top.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A 200-meter skyscraper, once Georgia's tallest building, famous for the small golden Ferris wheel embedded in its facade some 100 meters up. Originally planned as a technical university, it now houses a Le Méridien hotel.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A 2.5-kilometer cable car, the longest in Georgia, that climbs to a mountaintop entertainment complex 250 meters above the sea in about 15 minutes. Named after the ship from Greek mythology that carried Jason to Colchis, roughly where Batumi sits today.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A 108-hectare garden spread across nine phytogeographic sections along a kilometer of Black Sea coastline, among the largest botanical gardens in the former Soviet Union. Founded in 1912 by botanist Andrey Krasnov, who is buried within its grounds.
📍 Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
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A Roman fortress dating to the 1st century AD, later held by Byzantine and Ottoman forces, with 18 of its original 22 towers still standing. Local tradition holds that the apostle Matthias is buried within its walls, though excavation there remains forbidden.
📍 Gonio, Adjara, Georgia
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