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Tsagveri

Soviet-era spa town bubbling with mountain springs

Tsagveri

Why go

Tsagveri sits in the Borjomi Gorge at 1,020 meters, its name meaning 'place of wine vessels' in Georgian, though it is carbonated mineral water that made its reputation. The town's sanatoriums drew Soviet workers here for prescribed respiratory and digestive treatments from the 1950s onward, a healing culture that persists in faded grand buildings where nurses still administer baths from the sodium-bicarbonate springs that emerge naturally at 32–34°C. Unlike its famous neighbor Borjomi, Tsagveri remains unvarnished and affordable, its concrete promenades and pine air offering a genuine, unhurried immersion in Caucasian balneology without the polish of wellness tourism.

On the ground See

  • Tsagveri Central Park with its drinking pavilion dispensing free carbonated mineral water from the source
  • The Soviet-era Sanatorium Georgia, where you can book inexpensive radon-carbonated baths and mud treatments
  • The forested trail to the Tsagveri Spring No. 1, the original borehole tapped in 1952, marked by a modest stone pavilion

Practical Know before you go

Best visited May–October; sanatorium treatments require advance booking by phone or in person, with basic Georgian or Russian helpful for arrangements.

Last reviewed 25 August 2026 · reviewed quarterly