Mtatsminda Park, Theme park on Mount Mtatsminda, Tbilisi, Georgia
Mtatsminda Park is a landscaped park and theme park on Mount Mtatsminda, the highest point of Tbilisi at 770 metres, covering more than 100 hectares. It holds carousels, water slides, a roller coaster, the Ghost Castle dark ride, a funicular and a 65-metre Giant Wheel at the edge of the mountain above the city.
Mtatsminda Park was founded by the Soviet government in the 1930s and was once noted as the third most visited public park in the USSR. In 2001 Badri Patarkatsishvili and his wife Inna Gudavadze began turning it into a 21st-century theme park. The state seized the park on 7 November 2007; after Patarkatsishvili's death in February 2008 his widow pursued international arbitration, and a July 2011 settlement returned the park to the family.
The park's name comes from Mount Mtatsminda, meaning "Holy Mountain" in Georgian. The Ghost Castle dark ride, a three-storey medieval castle bought from Luneur park and originally called "Legend", is a fixture of the park's identity. The funicular, built in 1905, connects Chonkadze street to the park and is itself a landmark.
The funicular, built in 1905, runs 501 m from Chonkadze Street up to the park, climbing from 460 m to 727 m above sea level at an angle of 28–33°. The park sits at 770 m on over 100 hectares, so allow time to walk between the rides and the Giant Wheel at the mountain edge.
The Giant Wheel stands 65 m high, the tallest attraction in the park, and completes one revolution in 10 to 12 minutes. It sits at the edge of the mountain, so riders look down on Tbilisi from the 770 m summit of Mtatsminda.
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