Spring pavilion
Blue dome, mineral water.
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A large park in a narrow green gorge along the Borjomula river in the heart of Borjomi, the resort that gives its name to the Borjomi mineral water famous across Georgia and the former Soviet Union. It holds the town's best-known springs, and visitors come to stroll and drink the water at its source. Borjomi's springs rose to fame in the nineteenth century, when buildings and baths went up from the 1830s. The viceroys of the Caucasus then made it their summer retreat, and Mikhail Vorontsov laid out new parks, turning it into a resort for the aristocracy nicknamed «the pearl of the Caucasus». At the park's heart is a spring pavilion with a blue iron-and-glass dome, where visitors fill their cups for free with the warm, slightly salty mineral water. Paths wind among trees, colourful iron bridges, statues and small waterfalls, with play areas for children. A cable car climbs from the park to a plateau above the town, and further up the gorge, about half an hour's walk, are open-air sulphur pools. Entry is a small fee, about 5 GEL for foreign visitors per visitor guides, while the cable car and sulphur pools cost extra. Bring a bottle to fill at the spring; weekday mornings are the quietest.
Blue dome, mineral water.
Up the gorge.
Up to the plateau.
Central Borjomi along the Borjomula river, Samtskhe-Javakheti
Yes; visitors fill cups and bottles for free at the spring inside the park; the fee is only for park entry.
