Places in Georgia

A Moorish-style palace on the bank of the Mtkvari in the former village of Likani, now part of Borjomi: the summer residence of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, built in 1892–1895 to a design by Leon Benois. To light it, the first hydroelectric power station in the Russian Empire was built at Likani in 1898. In Soviet times Stalin and other leaders of the state rested here, and in independent Georgia the palace became the summer residence of the president.

The only surviving royal palace of medieval Georgia, on the bank of the Rioni 7 kilometres from Kutaisi: ruins spread over 2,000 square metres, where Giorgi III raised a four-tier brick palace with a 14-metre dome on a 3-metre stone plinth over a hunting house of the eighth to ninth century, where Tamar was proclaimed co-ruler and where in 1191 rebel nobles crowned Yuri Bogolyubsky king.

The neo-Gothic residence of the Dadiani, princes of Mingrelia, in Zugdidi, one of the most celebrated princely palaces of the Caucasus and a museum since 1849, which keeps the robe of the Mother of God, the icon of Queen Burdukhan, a death mask of Napoleon and up to 50,000 objects.

An Art Nouveau palace on the slope of Mount Signalka in Old Gagra, built in 1898–1902 by Prince Alexander of Oldenburg, founder of the Gagra resort: red tiles, oddly shaped windows and a falconer's tower; a sanatorium from 1917, and after war and fire under a long restoration.