The renovated Petra Fortress is ready to receive visitors, reports the Ajara Tourism Department.
Petra was a fortified town on the eastern Black Sea coast, in Lazica, in what is now western Georgia. The mainstream scholarly opinion identifies Petra as a ruined settlement of Late Antiquity. It is located on the coastline of the village of Tsikhisdziri in Adjara.
![](https://georgiatoday.ge/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/186250812_3033839493555657_1801224306612349833_n-300x200.jpg)
Archaeological work on the castle has been ongoing since 1987. The Petra fortress Museum-Reserve has been operating since 1989. The museum preserves archeological excavations of the complex, which covers the period from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: architectural details, fragments of mosaics, materials of the VIII-VI centuries stalls, a tomb, and IV-V centuries’ remains, ceramics, numismatic material, and more. The reserve area covers about 7 hectares.
Large-scale rehabilitation of infrastructure at Petra Fortress has been completed and the tourist destination is once again ready to receive visitors.
Source of information : wikipedia.org
By Ketevan Skhirtladze