Likani ( Georgian : ლიკანი ) is a townlet in Georgia ’s Samtskhe-Javakheti region, located at the west end of the town of Borjomi in the Borjomi Municipality , some 160 km west of Tbilisi , capital of Georgia. Likani is adjacent to the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park and is a popular mountain spa.
5-550: Winters are mild and not very snowy with an average temperature of -2.0 °C while summers are warm with an average temperature of 20-25 °C. The Likani Park, popularly exploited as a recreational zone, is dominated by oaks and conifer groves and hosts mineral springs similar in composition to "Borjomi". Important landmarks include a three-nave basilica church (8th-9th centuries) and the Romanov Palace (1892-95) . The latter – projected by Leon Benois and designed by Leopold Bilfeldt –
10-703: A Soviet-era sanatorium, was purchased, in April 2006, by the Kazakh state-owned energy company KazMunayGas which promised to develop the area into an international tourism center. This article about a building or structure in the country of Georgia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 41°50′N 43°22′E / 41.833°N 43.367°E / 41.833; 43.367 Romanov Palace (1892-95) Romanov Palace (Russian: Дворец Романовых ; Georgian : რომანოვების სასახლე ) also known as Likani Palace ( Georgian : ლიკანის სასახლე ),
15-662: Is a palace located in Likani , Georgia . The palace was designed by Leon Benois for Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia . The total area of Likani Palace is 690 square meters. The first hydroelectric power plant in the Russian Empire was built in 1898 in Likani to illuminate the palace. Next to Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia lived the Grand Duke Georgy Nikolayevich, who suffered from tuberculosis . In
20-629: The era of the Romanovs , images of a private house were preserved in photographs by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky . Part of the furniture of the private house is exhibited in the Georgian Museum of Simon Janashia . During the USSR , the private house became the property of the state. The leaders of the Communist Party , including Joseph Stalin , rested here. Currently, the private house is the summer residence of
25-575: Was built on the bank of the Kura River as a summer mansion of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia . In the Soviet times, the Likani residence passed into the property of the state and was frequented by key Soviet officials, including Joseph Stalin . In a newly independent Georgia, the palace functions as a summer residence of the President of Georgia . The rest of the Likani recreational complex, including
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