Kobuleti (Georgian ქობულეთი) - a resort town (1944) in Adjara, Georgia, 21 km north of Batumi. Located on the shores of the Black Sea in the subtropical climate zone. Center of Kobuleti area. Population - 70 thous. (2009). The same name is given and the train station of the city.
Climate [edit | edit source code ]
The climate is subtropical conditions in Kobuleti be called ideal. Winter rarely fall below +5 ° C degrees and summer temperatures range from +25 ° C to +28 ° C. Snow is almost never as sweltering heat , generally mild climate .
History of the City [edit | edit source code ]
Kobuleti territory has been inhabited since time immemorial Gurians . Near the shoreline in the river gorge Kintrishi scientists have discovered monuments Mesolithic and Neolithic . And in Kobuleti peatlands found ancient human settlement , tentatively dated V-III millennia BC. Excavation materials confirmed that near the modern town of Kobuleti even in ancient times there was a city , cultural and economic life has been closely linked with other areas of the Black Sea . It stood on the trade route from the Crimea to Persia , the Middle East. Here , new homes , cottages . When the territory ceded to the Russian Empire , the best land adjacent to the sea, were distributed to retired Russian generals and the area became known as " Generals ". In 1904 on the initiative of doctors in society Batumi Kobuleti was organized climate station railway department .
Resort development [edit | edit source code ]
Since the end of the first decade of the XX century Kobuleti has attracted attention as a resort in 1911 opened here a small nursing home . However, in the years before the Revolution Kobuleti, despite the manifest interest in him remains provincial and uncomfortable place .
Only after the establishment of Soviet power in Adjara began extensive work on the creation and expansion of the resort. Unfolded planned construction of sanatoriums and rest homes , industries, and cultural and educational institutions . Kobuleti became a district center of a vast agricultural area of Adjara. Over the next fifty years, the city has become one of the best seaside resorts of the former USSR . And today, in independent Georgia Kobuleti brand keeps its former glory - every year in this lovely little resort town attracts thousands of tourists.
Currently in a well functioning Kobuleti motels , boarding houses and hotels . Salubrious climate , excellent beach and wonderful nature Kobuleti attract not only patients suffering from illnesses of the cardiovascular system , but also many healthy people who want to spend their holidays by the sea, in the shady alleys , pine and cedar groves. On the territory of Kobuleti for vacationers built several comfortable hotels . In the future, the construction of new modern hotels , a few years Kobuleti can become one the most successful resorts in the Caucasus.Free Tourist Zone [edit | edit source code ]
October 26, 2010 the Parliament of Georgia in the third and final reading the bill "On Kobuleti free tourist zone ." Law partially exempt from taxes the investors who will invest in the construction of hotels in Kobuleti on 11.4 acres . According to the law , investors who invest at least 1 million lari in hotel construction over the next 15 years will be exempt from taxes on income and property . The firm, which will invest 1 million GEL will get free land in the tourist area of "symbolic GEL 1 ." At the same time, the Georgian government is committed to ensure that the necessary infrastructure at the construction site , including the laying of gas, water , electricity and roads . [1]