Chacha Tower ( ka, ჭაჭის კოშკი) is a
clock tower located in
Batumi
Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ) is the second largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of t ...
,
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
. It was built in 2012 by the city council with a cost of one million
Georgian laris.
The tower is high and has four fountains.
It is a replica of the
Clock Tower in
İzmir
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...
, Turkey. Georgian
chacha
Cha-Cha, Cha Cha, ChaCha or Chacha may refer to:
Music
* Cha-cha-cha (dance), a dance of Cuban origin
* Cha-cha-cha (music), a genre of Cuban music
* ''Cha Cha'' (album), a 1978 album by Herman Brood & His Wild Romance
* ''Cha Cha'' (soundtrack), ...
comes out of the fountains of the tower instead of water.
The tower hosts a tourism information center.
As of 2015, the chacha fountain was reportedly nonfunctioning.
[Tara Isabella Burton, "Vegas on the Black Sea," ''Roads and Kingdoms'', September 28, 2015, https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/vegas-on-the-black-sea/]
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Buildings and structures in Batumi
Towers in Georgia (country)
Clock towers
Towers completed in 2012