Mtatsminda Park

Mtatsminda Park is a well-known landscaped park located at the top of Mount Mtatsminda overlooking the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The park has carousels, water slides, a curler-coaster, funicular, and a big Ferris Wheel at the edge of the mountain, imparting a wonderful view over the town. The park turned into based through the Soviet authorities in the Thirties and become once noted as the 3rd most visited public park in the USSR. The past due Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili along with his spouse, Inna Gudavadze, began remodeling the park right into a twenty first-century topic park. Badri owned the park as a charitable undertaking along a number of business assets in Georgia, covered the Rustavi Steel Plant, Borjomi water, and Imedi TV station.

In 2007 Patarkatsishvili have become a vocal opponent of the National Movement Party and as a end result, fell out of fashion with President Mikhail Saakashvili. On the 7 November 2007, his belongings inclusive of Mtatsminda Park and the Imedi TV station had been seized by the Government under claims that the agency had violated numerous times the terms of the settlement and had didn't pay a condominium fee. Representatives of Patarkatsishvili right now rejected this claims, pronouncing that they had been “baseless.