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  Kutaisi, Opera house
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  • Kutaisi, Opera house
      Kutaisi, Opera house
    by JLBG
  • Kutaisi, Opera house
      Kutaisi, Opera house
    by JLBG
  • Kutaisi, Opera house
      Kutaisi, Opera house
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  • Kutaisi, Meskhishvili Drama Theatre.
      Kutaisi, Meskhishvili Drama Theatre.
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  • Kutaisi, Meskhishvili Drama Theatre.
      Kutaisi, Meskhishvili Drama Theatre.
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Mon Plaisir

by JLBG

It was a surprise to see and “Art Nouveau” entrance with a French writing in Kutaisi!I have found that the Georgian Government made a decision in September 2007 to renovate the historical parts of Kutaisi. The project is online and this is where I found the following information. 38 buildings were restored, among which Mon-Plaisir CinemaThe Monplaisir was the second cinema to be opened in Kutaisi. It was situated in the house of Stapane Peikrishvili, next to Kutaisi Puppet Theatre, and belonged to the film enthusiast Gabriel Cherekishvili. Its original proscenium arch has been restored.*

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Memorial

by JLBG

On the borders of the Veriko Anjaparidze gardens stand an impressive twenty columns memorial. I have extensively searched but have found no clues about the meaning of this monument. It stands on the right of the Riding statue of King David IV the Builder.

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Amazing monument

by JLBG

This amazing monument is made of five walls, each with a huge round hollow in the middle and a statue standing on top of a staircase. It stands in a small sculpture park, the Tsulukidze garden next to the larger Veriko Anjaparidze gardens. I have no further information about it.Alexander Tsulukidze was the son of the noble Tsulukidze family. Together with Stalin, he played a main part in the revolutionary processes that lead to the USSR.

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Bagrat cathedral

by JLBG

Bagrat cathedral stands on top of Ukmerioni Hill and is seen here from the city center. Bagrat cathedral is one of the landmarks of Georgia. It was built in the Xith by King Bagrat III. During the golden age of Georgia, Svetskhoveli in Kartlia, Alaverdi in Kakhetia and Bagrat in Kutaisi were the jewels of Georgia’s cathedrals. This is where King David was crowned.

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King David IV the Builder

by JLBG

Riding statue of King David IV the Builder. The statue was carved in 1995 by Elgudja Davidovich Amashukeli, the most famous Georgian monumental sculptor. He carved also "Kartlis Deda” (Mother of Georgia) in Tbilisi and many other monumental monuments. Amashukeli, born in 1928 was a USSR official national artist and after the independence of Georgia, succeeded into being an official Georgian national artist.Sorry, the photo is not good !

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Kutaisi state historical museum

by JLBG

Kutaisi state historical museum stands also on the main square. We have not visited it but following what I have found, it has interesting artifacts but is in poor condition, with almost no captions, and anyway, they are only in Georgian and in Russian.

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Meskhishvili Drama Theatre.

by JLBG

In the central square stands the huge Meskhishvili Drama Theatre. I don’t know what they were playing and who was playing but I have the photo (last photo) ! The building is impressive, as well as most official buildings in Kutaisi.

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Opera house

by JLBG

This official building has a very special and very heavy style. Each roof is topped by a sitting lion that holds its paw on a globe while on top of several columns stand tall warriors holding a spear. I wondered what was this building. I have finally zoomed on one of the photo to read what was written on the front (last photo) It seemed to be the State Opera house. I have now checked with photos on the web and this is indeed the Opera, a branch of Tbilisi's Paliashvili Opera House.

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Modern mural

by JLBG

While entering into Kutaisi, I noticed this huge mural on the side of a building. It shows Georgian at work in factories but it does not look like the classical realistic style of the Stalinist era. This one must have been drawn recently.

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Sataplia Protected Area

by rjaparidze

Unlike some of the best protected areas in Georgia, Sataplia is not big...In Georgia 7 km far from Kutaisi at the bottom of the Caucasian Range, at the height of 500m. from the sea level there is marvelous place -- Sataplia State reserve. There are five caves in the Sataplia Reserve but only one of them is used for the excursion purposes. Sataplia karst cave #1 1925 was discovered by Petre Chabukiani while searching the dwelling of the primery human being. The entire length of the cave is 600m. height-length 15/ m. in the cave the thermometer shows 11 grades invariably.The study of the Dinosaurs footprints showed that one hundred and twenty million years ago, in the mesosouri era they were made on the shores of the sea which covered today’s Sataplia. The footprints were later fixed and covered by sedimentNowadays there have been found about 200 footprints on the territory of 800 square...

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