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   Gonio

   A Roman fort at the mouth of the Chorokhi, fifteen kilometres south of Batumi, known in antiquity as Apsaros and garrisoned by two cohorts under Hadrian. Its walls and eighteen towers stand; tradition places the grave of the apostle Matthias inside.

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   Batumi Botanical Garden

   A 108-hectare botanical garden on the Green Cape nine kilometres north of Batumi, founded in 1912 by the Russian botanist Andrei Krasnov. Nine climatic sections hold several thousand species, and the humid subtropical coast lets Himalayan, Mexican and Australasian plants grow outdoors.

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   Alphabetic Tower

   A 130-metre tower of 2012 on the Batumi seafront, two rising strands that read as a DNA helix, with the thirty-three letters of the Georgian alphabet fixed between them. A revolving restaurant and viewing pod sit at the top.

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   Batumi Mosque

   The only working mosque in Batumi, built in 1866 and known as Orta Jame, the middle mosque, because two others once stood on either side. Adjara has the largest Muslim population in Georgia and the mosque is heavily overcrowded at Friday prayers.

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   Mtirala National Park

   A national park of 15,698 hectares in the Adjara mountains behind Batumi, whose name means the weeping one — it takes over four metres of rain a year, among the wettest places in Europe. It protects Colchic temperate rainforest with Caucasian species that survived the Ice Age.

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   Petra

   A fortified town on the Black Sea coast in Lazica, built up by Justinian in the 530s as a Byzantine base against Persia. It was the focus of the Lazic War of 541-562, and its ruins are identified with the site at Tsikhisdziri in Adjara.

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   Batumi Synagogue

   A synagogue of 1904 built at the initiative of the community leader Semyon Bulkovich, and used by Ashkenazi Jews until the Soviets converted it into a gymnasium in 1923. It was returned in 1993 and restored.

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   Batumi Cathedral of the Mother of God

   A church built between 1898 and 1903 as a Catholic cathedral by the Zubalashvili brothers, to a design by the Polish architect Aleksander Rogoyski, and now Georgian Orthodox. It is the leading Gothic Revival building on the Georgian coast and survived the Soviet period as a laboratory.

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   Machakhela National Park

   A national park of 8,733 hectares established in 2012 in the Machakhelistsqali valley in Adjara, on the Turkish border. It protects Colchic forest, and the valley's traditional flintlock gunmaking has its own museum.

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    Medea statue

    A sculpture on Europe Square unveiled on 6 July 2007, designed by David Khmaladze, of Medea holding up the Golden Fleece. Colchis, the kingdom Jason sailed to, was on this coast, which is the point the statue makes.

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   Church of the Holy Spirit

   A Catholic church in Batumi, built in the late 1990s to designs by the Georgian architects Oleg Pataridze and Giorgi Bagoshvili and consecrated in 2000. It serves the small Catholic community of Adjara.

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   Batumi Stalin Museum

   A museum in Batumi commemorating Stalin, who agitated among the refinery workers of the city in 1901 and 1902 and was arrested here. Visitor numbers were negligible and it closed in 2013.

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   Batumi Archaeological Museum

   An archaeological museum in Batumi, among the oldest museums in Georgia, holding finds from Colchis and the Roman coast including material from Gonio and Pichvnari. Greek pottery and local gold work are its core.

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   State Art Museum of Adjara

   The state art museum of Adjara in Batumi, holding Georgian painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including work by Niko Pirosmani and Lado Gudiashvili. It opened in its present building in 1998.

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   Makriali Church

   An Orthodox church at Kemalpaşa in Hopa, Artvin province, just over the Turkish border from Georgia. King Bagrat V of Georgia married Anna of Trebizond in it in June 1367; the building no longer stands.

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   Freedom Square

   The central square of Batumi beside the Black Sea port, laid out in the nineteenth century and rebuilt in the 2000s. Restaurants and the old customs buildings surround it, and the boulevard along the sea starts here.

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   The Church of the Three Bishops of Kobuleti

   An Orthodox church at Bobokvati near Kobuleti, dedicated to the Three Hierarchs — Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom. It serves the coastal villages north of Batumi.

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