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Adjara Arts Museum
The Adjara Arts Museum makes a happy break from many of Georgia's more turgid and badly lit museums. The collection covers Georgian art including works by Pirosmani and Elena Akhvlediani, as well as European and Russian painting from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Batumis Beach
The beach itself is fine though stony - extremely busy during the summer months, but kept clean enough. You'll find cleaner waters, and thinner crowds, a short drive south of the city, at Gonio and Kvariati.
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Batumis Bulvari
Everyone soon finds themselves strolling along Batumis bulvari, the 1.5km park strip fronting the main beach. With its cafés, paths, trees, beach bars and large Ferris wheel (per person 0.50 GEL) at the south end, this is the life and soul of the resort. It was originally laid out in 1884 and contains some unique plants and trees. The beach itself is fine though stony - extremely busy during the summer months, but kept clean enough.
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Evropas Moedani
The main central square, Evropas moedani , is a broad, attractive space sporting musical fountains which are a magnet for kids on hot summer evenings. Towering over the square is a striking monument, unveiled in 2007, to Medea, 'the person who brought Georgia closer to Europe,' according to Batumi's mayor at the time. The Georgian government controversially paid over 1 million GEL for the monument, sculpted by Davit Khmaladze.
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Ferris Wheel
At the south end of Batumis bulvari (the 1.5km park strip fronting the main beach) you'll find this large Ferris wheel, which is the life and soul of the resort.
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Monument
Towering over the square is a striking monument, unveiled in 2007, to Medea, 'the person who brought Georgia closer to Europe,' according to Batumi's mayor at the time. The Georgian government controversially paid over 1 million GEL for the monument, sculpted by Davit Khmaladze.
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Mosque
Batumi's last surviving mosque, built in the 1860s, is also worth visiting. It's finely painted in pinks, greens and blues, with beautiful Koranic calligraphy on the walls. Friendly men often gather to socialise at the entrance.
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Nobel Technological Museum
Batumi's most modern and one of its most interesting museums is the Nobel Technological Museum. This takes you back to Batumi's heyday in the late 19th and early 20th century, when it was in the vanguard of the international oil business, with investment from the Nobels and Rothschilds spawning technological innovations here. The museum also looks at the tea industry that grew up at the same time. It's just inland off the road to Makhinjauri train station.
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Old Food Shop
The nameless old food shop has very ordinary goods for sale but its rich gold decoration is a unique memento of prerevolutionary Batumi.
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Stalin Museum
For those who don't make it to Gori, the Stalin Museum is an interesting and similarly hagiographic establishment. Stalin lived here for just a few months in 1901-02 when he helped organise the bitumen workers and set up an illegal printing press. Rather too amazingly (given that he didn't become famous until almost two decades later), his personal belongings have survived, including a moth-eaten towel and the bed he slept on.
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