Batumi Hotels & Guesthouses

Batumi
Batumi means attracted subtropics, turquoise sea and great beaches, numerous hotels and ancient sightseeing make the city unique and desirable for tourists.

Batumi today is a modern European resort with a beautiful boulevard. Here you can get the pleasure with roller skating or biking. All buildings and premises are effectively enlightened in night time. Festivals, concerts of world-known star are waiting for their visitors. In the famous Dolphinarium tickets for the shows are sold out with a bang! Children and adults watch performances with great pleasure. Modern futuristic design and installation along with the old part of Batumi, including colonial architecture, which are adjacent to each other and complement the overall unique atmosphere of the city, where merged into a unified harmony styles, cultures and religions of different countries and peoples.
Especially the city looks fantastic at night under color lights, laser installations and street lights. Conventional buildings converted into luxury palaces.

On that occasion be sure to visit Petra Fortress, which dates back to the early feudal era, and founded by Byzantine military commander Joann Tsibe. The castle was crossed by important trade route of that time, connecting several states: Byzantium, Persia, Georgia, Armenia, and others.
Ancient city’s ruins are in Tsikhisdziri village. A lot of legends are connected with this fortress.
Different artifacts have been found in the fortress at different times which become the property of ceramic, coins and weapons collections of the museum. At the city-fortress territory remains ruins of the V century Basilica, marble and stone buildings parts from IV-V centuries, as well as fragments of a beautiful mosaic. One of artifacts of Petra disposal, discovered in 1908 (large crystal in a gold frame) is stored in the Hermitage in St-Petersburg. From the fortress was controlled all the shipping industry of the Byzantine Empire in the direction of the eastern Black Sea coast. Persia and Byzantium have always competed for control of Petra, and both knew that this depended on their economic and political situation in the region. This became one of the causes of the war between them in the middle of the 6th century, and later between Turkey and Russia in 18-19 cc. The total exhibition area of the museum and the fortress covers 100 sq.m², with about 8,000 exhibits.

Batumi Botanical Garden covers an area of 111 hectares and is located near the village with the beautiful name - Green Cape. This is one of the largest botanical gardens of the former Soviet Union. In order to see around the whole garden is not enough even a whole day. There are different departments: department of humid subtropical, New Zealand, Australian, Asiatic, South American, Mexican and Mediterranean department and others. A collection of flora includes about 5 thousand species and varieties.

Adjarian Kitchen was formed under influence of several cuisines, including Muslim, so dishes are fat and caloric and are prepared with different kinds of melted butter. Black Sea and mountain rivers rich with fish caused a variety of fish dishes. Only this region is characterized by spicy and delicious “Borano”, “Chirbuli”, “Sinori”, etc. But the specialty and visit card of Batumi of course are the Adjarian khachapuri –special type of cheese-pie with shape of ship. If you not try them, you will not feel the spirit of Adjara.