BATOMI BOTANICAL PARK

Located nine kilometers north of Batumi, the park is the largest botanical garden in the world. Opened in 1912, the park contains more than two thousand plant species compiled from the geography extending from the Caucasus to Mexico and Far Asia. It is especially enjoyable to see the cliffs that merge with the sea and to visit the park with tiny golf carts.

The historical botanical park in Batumi, the city on the Black Sea coast of Georgia, is visited by many people living in the Black Sea Region because it can be visited without a visa.

The botanical park, located 9 kilometers north of Batumi, the administrative center of the Adjara Autonomous Republic, on an area of about 114 hectares of the Black Sea coast, is called “Cape Verde” among the people.

The establishment of the Batumi Botanical Park, the largest botanical garden in the Soviet Union, began in the 1880s by the Russian botanist Andrey Nikolayevich Krasnov and his brother General Pyotr Krasnov.

Organized by two talented gardeners and decorators, Frenchman D’Alphonse and Georgian Iason Gordeziani, the park opened on November 3, 1912.

In addition to plants native to the Caucasus, the park was further expanded during the Soviet Union period, as well as 3,274 plant and tree species brought from Far Asia, New Zealand, South America, the Himalayas, Mexico and Australia. Only 104 of them are known to be native to the Caucasus.

Formerly run by the Georgian Academy of Sciences, the park has been operating as an independent institution since 2006.