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That was the penultimate day of our stay in Georgia. Before travelling to the south, to Vardzia, in the morning we wanted to visit the cave complexes of Sataplia and Kumistavi, both located in the surroundings of Kutaisi. The way between them was passing through Tsqaltubo – a spa resort, earlier quite famous, but currently rather neglected and far from its past glory. As the city is quite big as for the Georgian reality (ca. 17 000 people), it’s obvious, that football was and still is present there.
The 26 May Stadium has been built in 1978, and in the Soviet era could gather up to 12 000 people. In its original shape, as it seems from the satellite photos, it consisted of a seated south-eastern stand, divided into two parts, while the rest of the stands of this oval shaped stadium were purely of stone. On the north-western stand there should be some kind of a club building, probably.
We decided to make a stop and see the stadium on our way, but this time the stop was extremely short – there were construction works started there, and the whole stadium was temporarily out of use, far from its optimal condition.
The field was still intact, but its surrounding definitely was not.
So I took only these two photos, to document my presence there, and decided to pay the proper, longer visit in the unprecised future. That, indeed, became true four years later, in 2019, when the stadium was, after few years of works, already well prepared and good looking. The photos from that trip will be presented, of course, in one of the forthcoming episodes, when their order comes.