my city Kutaisi

1. My City, KUTAISI
Presentation made by: Nanuka Mushkudiani
Gvanca Chirgadze
Lika Ochkhikidze
Teona Gumberidze
Rima Macharashvili
Nia Kibabidze
Nino Cheishvili
David Akhvlediani

2. Georgia
Georgia is a country in
the Caucasus region of Eurasia.
Located at the crossroads of Western
Asia and Eastern Europe, it is
bounded to the west by the Black
Sea, to the north by Russia, to the
south by Turkey and Armenia, and to
the southeast by Azerbaijan.The
population of my country is 4,5
million.The biggest city in my
country is the capital “TBILISI”.I
love my country ,because people in
my country are very kind and
hospitable. Also we have many
beautiful places to visit and also
delicious food.

3. Kutaisi
Kutaisi was the capital of the ancient
Kingdom of Colchis. Archaeological
evidence indicates that the city
functioned as the capital of the kingdom
of Colchis in the sixth to fifth centuries
BC. Several historians believe that,
in Argonautica, a Greek epic
poem about Jason and the Argonauts and
their journey to Colchis, author Apollonius
Rhodius considered Kutaisi their final
destination as well as the residence of
King Aeëtes. From 978 to 1122 CE, Kutaisi
was the capital of the united Kingdom of
Georgia, and from the 15th century until
1810, it was the capital of the Imeretian
Kingdom.

4. Gelati (Georgian: გელათის
მონასტერი) is a medieval
monastic complex near
Kutaisi, in the Imereti region
of western Georgia. A
masterpiece of the Georgian
Golden Age, Gelati was
founded in 1106 by King
David IV of Georgia and is
recognized by UNESCO as a
World Heritage Site.

5. Bagrati Cathedral

7. Kutaisi State
Museum
Museum collection description: The
museum was established in 1921, it
houses more then 150 thousand items of
cultural heritage of the country (from
IX-VII c.c. B.C. up to late medieval
times). Among them are: Bronze Age
and Antiquity period monuments –
archaeological discoveries from
western Georgia, rare samples
Georgian, Roman, Byzantine and
Oriental history, everyday life and
culture rare objects, collection of
oldest epigraphic monuments and
Georgian manuscripts – rare charters,
ethnographic materials, significant
samples of items (goldsmith works,
metalwork, ceramics, leather,
glassworks, textiles, woodcuts).
Permanent exhibitions are displayed in
10 spaces on two floors. In 2005 had
finished reconstruction of the "Gold
Treasury" hall, and at the moment the
permanent display there is done
according the modern standards. In
2006 have started rehabilitation of the
museum – a full reconstruction of the
facilities according the international
standard.

8. THEATRES
The Opera House was opened in 1969. At the Drama Theatre namedafter a state - Georgian
Georgian theatrical performances were State Theatre, The largest and most important theater.
held in the city since 1861, Cyril Lordkipanidze, Founded in 1928, the second in the state theater,
Dimitri Bakradze led by Akaki Tsereteli. The theater of Kutaisi and Batumi, Marjanishvili guidance.
theater lived at different times: l. Meskhishvili, The new building was officially opened in 1955. The
theater,
f. Abashidze, t. Chkheidze, f. Anjaparidze, a unique architectural structure, which in 2009 was
Sh. Gambashidze and others. granted the status of a monument.

9. Kutaisi Botanical
Garden

10. The most amazing cave –
Sataplya Cave
Sataplia is a rather small cave located in Tsk
It is famous for fine speleothems and the din
The tour enters the through-cave on one hil
and then goes back on the surface past the d
The cave is named after Mt. Sataplia (494m)
is now the Nature Preserve. The preserve wa
caves of the area and the dinosaur footprints

11. B r I d g e s
Chain Bridge is the oldest bridge in Kutaisi