Sataplia - Imereti
Sataplia - a wonderful monument of nature. It borders Kutaisi from the south-west (6kms away from the town). A paved motorway is built from Kutaisi to Sataplia. Nature gifted Sataplia with beautiful landscape.
Sataplia is mostly famous for its kastic caves and such a unique object as the footprints of some dinosaurs. Due to this fact experts think that Sataplia is the one of the significant monuments in the former Soviet Union and in the world as well. There are two pre-historical monuments of the gigantic animals dinosaurs and karst caves.
Peter Chabukiani, an ethnographer from Kutaisi, discovered Sataplia in 1933 and believed that footprints belonged to the extinct species. This discovery has entered up in special literature.
The beauty of the Sataplia Park is marvelous cave arranged for the spectator appears in the wonderland of the underground. There are several halls richly decorated with stalactites and stalagmites. At some places the stalactites and stalagmites are joined making the huge columns or fairy figures.The length of the cave with its branches is over 600m. We go in the cave from the north. A short distance away from it you can notice a huge hall.
Peter Chabukiani was the first who paid attention to this cave. The national park of Sataplia which occupies 500 hectares was protected under his supervision.
There is a layer of clay near Sataplia where peter Chabukiani discovered the traces of the home of a Neolithic man. He found invaluable collection of Stone Age tools.These monuments helped archeologist to study patrimonial formation.
The territory of the Sataplia National Park is hilly, in some places mountainous. More then 70 kinds of perennials and 500 kinds of grass are preserved here. Most of them are registered in the “Red Book”. They are colchian box-tree, yew-tree, elm, oak-tree, chestent tree and etc. There are a lot of melliferous herbs here.
Sataplia - a wonderful monument of nature. It borders Kutaisi from the south-west (6kms away from the town). A paved motorway is built from Kutaisi to Sataplia. Nature gifted Sataplia with beautiful landscape.
Sataplia is mostly famous for its kastic caves and such a unique object as the footprints of some dinosaurs. Due to this fact experts think that Sataplia is the one of the significant monuments in the former Soviet Union and in the world as well. There are two pre-historical monuments of the gigantic animals dinosaurs and karst caves.
Peter Chabukiani, an ethnographer from Kutaisi, discovered Sataplia in 1933 and believed that footprints belonged to the extinct species. This discovery has entered up in special literature.
The beauty of the Sataplia Park is marvelous cave arranged for the spectator appears in the wonderland of the underground. There are several halls richly decorated with stalactites and stalagmites. At some places the stalactites and stalagmites are joined making the huge columns or fairy figures.The length of the cave with its branches is over 600m. We go in the cave from the north. A short distance away from it you can notice a huge hall.
Peter Chabukiani was the first who paid attention to this cave. The national park of Sataplia which occupies 500 hectares was protected under his supervision.
There is a layer of clay near Sataplia where peter Chabukiani discovered the traces of the home of a Neolithic man. He found invaluable collection of Stone Age tools.These monuments helped archeologist to study patrimonial formation.
The territory of the Sataplia National Park is hilly, in some places mountainous. More then 70 kinds of perennials and 500 kinds of grass are preserved here. Most of them are registered in the “Red Book”. They are colchian box-tree, yew-tree, elm, oak-tree, chestent tree and etc. There are a lot of melliferous herbs here.