Batumi City Botanical Garden Petra Fortress From Kutaisi

Batumi city and municipality in Georgia, is the administrative center of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Batumi is the second most populous city in Georgia, a large international port on the southeastern coast of the Black Sea, an important industrial, cultural and tourist center in Georgia. The botanical garden occupies the south-western section of approximately 1 km long coastline between the mouth of Chakvitskali River and Green Cape, which extends from 0 to 220 meters above sea level. The garden is characterized by specific and diverse physical-geographical conditions. Petra fortress is military-strategic and trade-economic location, in the 6th century, on the order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian , John Strategos built a castle in the 6th century on the site of this ancient settlement of Lazes , which was named "Justinian's city" in honor of this emperor