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    Gonio Aphsaros Fortress

    Gonio Aphsaros Fortress is located 12km south to Batumi, on the left bank of the River Chorokhi, It is a real paradise for the lovers of historical and cultural antiquities.

    It has a distinctive architectural structure. The total length of the walls is 900m, height 5m, the towers are 7m high. Today the Fortress contains 18 towers. It used to have 22.4 main towers arranged in the corners of the fence. The fortress used to have four entrances. But, nowadays only the western gate is in function.

    Gonio Aphsaros Fortress has a unique strategic importance. It used to protect the entrances to the Chorokhi and Acharistskali Georges, which connected south-western inlands to the Black Sea littoral. It was its location that made Gonio Fortress into one of the citadels of first the Roman Empire, and then Byzantine.

    It is the region where Colchian Bronze culture and first Georgian statehood found its birthplace. According to the Roman and Byzantine sources Aphsaros was formed as a settlement of during that period. Its history is closely connected to the Myth of the Argonauts, According to the legend this is the site where King Aye buried his son Aphsyrus who was killed by escaped Jason.

    The interested traveler can find out that the oldest archeological layer excavated here belongs to XVIII XVII cc. BC. Burials of V c. BC are found outside the southern wall in Gonio. The revival of urban life was traced from Helenic Age. A number of historians claim that Gonio Fortress used to be a strategic political, economic, and cultural centre of eastern Roman frontier. A theatre and hippodrome used to function there in I-III cc AD. One of the twelve apostles of Christ St. Mathias is buried there.

    Archeological excavation began in Aphsaros in 60’s of XIX c. In 1974 an important jewelry hoard belonging to II-III cc AD was accidentally found there. Permanent scientific research works have been carried out ther since 1994. Gonio Aphsaros Fortress is declared the Museum-Preserve. Visitors are impressed with architectures of baths, and water and sewage drainage system found there.
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