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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.
You'll find cleaner waters, and thinner crowds, a short drive south of the city, at Gonio and Kvariati.
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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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Stalin Museum
The Stalin Museum is an interesting and 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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Tarabua Beach Club
A fresh-air venue close to the beach, with stages and large dance spaces where people party till dawn every night. Long lists of guest DJs from around Europe provide high-energy and chill-out beats, helped out some nights by singers or bands. They open their doors around 21:00 and start to fill after 23:00. Plenty of smaller bars along the beach develop their own nocturnal scenes too.
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Prozak
A fresh-air venue close to the beach, with stages and large dance spaces where people party till dawn every night. Long lists of guest DJs from around Europe provide high-energy and chill-out beats, helped out some nights by singers or bands. They open their doors around 21:00 and start to fill after 23:00. Plenty of smaller bars along the beach develop their own nocturnal scenes too.
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Coordinate 41/41
A fresh-air venue close to the beach, with stages and large dance spaces where people party till dawn every night. Long lists of guest DJs from around Europe provide high-energy and chill-out beats, helped out some nights by singers or bands. They open their doors around 21:00 and start to fill after 23:00. Plenty of smaller bars along the beach develop their own nocturnal scenes too.
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Iunga
There’s no better place than Batumi to decide whether you like khachapuri acharuli, Adjara’s large boat-shaped variety of Georgia’s national fast food with a lightly fried egg on top. And there’s no better place to try it than this tiny, neat place which specialises in it – if one of its four tables is vacant.
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Lunga
There's no better place than Batumi to decide whether you like khachapuri acharuli, Adjara's large boat-shaped variety of Georgia's national fast food with a lightly fried egg on top. And there's no better place to try it than this tiny, neat place which specialises in it - if one of its four tables is vacant.
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Privet iz Batuma
A fashionable café with a colonial Russian theme and sailor-suited waiters, ‘Hi from Batumi’ is good for ice cream, cakes, sandwiches, desserts and bliny (pancakes). The interior is air-conditioned and there are outdoor tables too, but you may still have to wait for a table on summer evenings.
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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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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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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
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.
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San Remo
A place with sailor-suited waiters, the picture-windowed San Remo serves Georgian and Russian fare on a pier at the southern end of the Boulevard. It’s a bit of a party place in the evening, with live music and a small dance floor.
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Zakara
This two-level wooden local restaurant is widely reputed to serve the best beef and pork khinkali in town (if you aren’t sick of them already). It’s an animated place with plenty of beer flowing.
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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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Sanapiro/Bereg
Right on the waterfront facing the harbour, this open-air pavilion is one of Batumi’s best places to eat for its location alone. The food (mainly Georgian standards) and the service are fine too.
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Café Frontieri
A pleasant open-air spot facing the northern seafront, Frontieri is good for salads, shashlyk, cheese plates, apple pie – and draft Staropramen beer from the Czech Republic.
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Slim Café
Long and thin (true to its name) and in tasteful style, Slim serves wonderful bliny with fruit and chocolate dripping, plus assorted sandwiches, soups and salads.
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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 pre-revolutionary Batumi.
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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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Ristorante Da Mario
Classy service, excellent Italian food and a long wine list make this hotel restaurant overlooking the Blvd a fine dinner spot.
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Bakuriani Winter Garden Café
The Intourist Palace’s large conservatory-style café is the most tranquil and comfortable, and expensive, in town.
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Marina Tourist Center
The gleaming new Marina Tourist Center has an excellent 25m indoor pool and tennis courts.
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Swimming Pool & Spa
The good open-air pool at the Hotel Intourist Palace is open to nonguests, as is the hotel's excellent spa.
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