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Discover Baghi

A world-class wellness product
on a slope in Adjara.

A magazine story in nine chapters: why the world is looking for ground, Georgia, Batumi, the village of Erge, a wellness product written by world specialists, the four forces of nature that do the work, how the project was born, and and what it gives you on the third day.

A story in nine chapters. Why the world is looking for ground. A country between two seas. A city on the Black Sea. A village above a river. A product written by people who spend their lives on the body. The forces of nature that do the work. How it was born. What you take home. And how to reserve your dates.

01 · Why now

The biggest wellness trend of our time
is learning to stand on the ground again.

Not another spa. Not another view. The people who book retreats today arrive with a sentence: I cannot switch off, I have no energy, my body gave up, I feel heavy. They are not looking for luxury. They are looking for ground: a place where the nervous system can land, where the day has a rhythm again, where somebody competent takes the decisions for a week.

BAGHI was written for exactly these people, and first of all for the residents of the Middle East: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha. Fast cities, long weeks, air-conditioned years. A direct flight of about three and a half hours, a car for fifteen minutes, and a slope where the forest, the river and the silence do what no city can. Built by a producer from Dubai, to the standards of quality that Dubai taught him.

3.5 hours from the Gulf
Direct flights Dubai to Batumi, a 15 minute car to the terrace.
Dubai standards
Service rhythm, protocols and privacy written by a team that opened for the world's luxury brands.
A product, not a place
Four programs, each written around the problem you arrive with.
Real ground
Forest on three sides, a river below, the sea at dusk. No neighbours in sight.
The BAGHI slope above Erge seen from above
Georgian dancers on the terrace at sunset

02 · The country

Georgia. A quiet country
on the edge of two seas.

Between the Black Sea and the Caspian, under the Greater Caucasus, Georgia has spent three thousand years perfecting two things: hospitality and food. The word for guest and the word for God share a proverb here, "a guest is a gift from God", and it is still the operating rule of every household. Wine was born in these valleys eight thousand years ago. Bread is baked in clay ovens. Walnuts, pomegranates, herbs and mountain water are not a menu concept, they are what grows on the slope.

For a guest from the Gulf it is close, visa-free for most passports, safe, and refreshingly unpolished. Nobody performs here. The forest is real, the mist is real, the silence after the village mosque's evening call is real.

A country where the first thing a stranger is offered is a seat at the table. We built BAGHI on that reflex and added the discipline.Why Georgia
The Black Sea coast below Batumi
03 · The city

Batumi. Fifteen minutes between the airport and the forest.

A subtropical city on the Black Sea: a long boulevard, palms, a new airport with direct flights from the Gulf, and mountains that start the moment the city ends. The transfer from the plane to the BAGHI terrace takes fifteen minutes. The city stays below. It is there if you want an evening, and invisible if you do not.

04 · The village

Erge. A real Adjarian village,
and why we chose it.

Erge sits above the Chorokhi river valley, south of Batumi, where the coastal plain turns into the first terraces of the Adjarian mountains. It is a working village: walnut and chestnut groves, hazelnut, tea on the lower slopes, cows that come home at dusk, houses with wide wooden verandas, a mosque whose evening call rolls across the valley, mountain springs that have never been bottled.

We looked at forty sites along the coast and in the mountains. Erge won on five things. Distance: fifteen minutes from the airport, yet no road noise. Water: a river below, springs above, mist in the mornings. Light: a south-facing slope that holds the sun until late and shows the sea at dusk. Forest: three sides of walnut, chestnut, laurel and a bamboo grove behind. People: a village that cooks, builds and welcomes, and that became our team.

BAGHI sits at the highest point of the village, on 2,600 m² of terraces. The name means garden. The village calls it that already.

Chorokhi river
Cold plunge water and the sound you fall asleep to.
Walnut and chestnut
The forest that shades the trails and fires the herbal baths.
South-facing
Sun until late, sea visible from the upper terrace at dusk.
The village team
Cooks, builders, a managing partner who was born here.
Erge village houses on the slope

05 · The product

A world-class wellness product,
written before the first stone was laid.

Most resorts build the rooms and then ask a spa consultant what to put in the brochure. BAGHI was done the other way round. The programs came first: four of them, each starting from a sentence a guest arrives with, each ending with a change you can measure. The slope, the lodges and the spa cluster were then designed as the container for those programs.

The protocols were written with people who spend their lives on the body. Facial and body lines from Natura Bissé, Barcelona. Magnesium therapy from Of The Islands, Zechstein-sourced. Therapists trained in Bali and refined inside one of Dubai's most awarded hotel spas. A nutrition system, one kitchen, four plates, built on Mediterranean patterns and Georgian produce. A fitness lead, a wellness lead, a head chef, each with a written day grid and a written reason for every block.

De-Stress"I cannot switch off."
ResultA calmer nervous system, deeper sleep, resting heart rate two to six beats lower by the third day. Warmth only, silence until breakfast, the calm plate.
Energizing"No energy, brain fog."
ResultMornings back. Sauna and cold plunge contrast, the bright plate, days loaded before noon and quiet after.
Fitness"The body gave up."
ResultTrust in the body again. Two load blocks a day, trails with elevation, a four-week plan to take home.
Detox"Heaviness, habits that drifted."
ResultA lighter system and habits with a shape. The light plate, cooking blocks, long walks. No fasting, no toxin claims.
The four programs → Find yours in two minutes

06 · The forces of nature

Four elements that actually work.
Tested on this slope, by this team.

Every program leads with one or two of them. None of it is decoration: each element has a measurable effect on the body, and each one is on the slope already, not in a rendering.

Water
Cold plunge by the river, warm magnesium baths on the terrace, the pool, waterfalls on Sundays. Contrast for energy, warmth for sleep. The oldest therapy there is, and still the most measurable.
Air
Sunrise yoga twenty minutes before the light, breath work on the platform in the bamboo grove, the lookout above the valley. Forest air, a river below, no traffic within earshot.
Earth
Trails with real elevation, the naturalist walk every morning, barefoot ground, stone stacking on a prepared pad. The body remembers how to carry itself.
Fire
The campfire that closes every day, the walnut-wood stove in the lodge, the sauna, the warmth that tells a nervous system it is safe to come down.
We did not invent any of this. We measured it, wrote it down, and built a place where it happens every day at the same hour.The protocols

07 · How it was born

Fifteen years of building for others.
Then one project of his own.

Ilyan Vladimirov has lived in Dubai for fifteen years. As a producer he led the launches of hundreds of commercial projects for world brands: Dolce & Gabbana boutiques in The Dubai Mall, campaigns and events for Versace, Armani Group, Al Tayer Group and Ounass, beauty salons, studios, and the wellness spa he founded inside a Marriott and sold in 2023.

Somewhere in those years he noticed the same thing in every client, every guest, every friend who flew in for a weekend: nobody needed another beautiful room. They needed a week that would put them back together. So he wrote the product first, four programs on paper, and only then went looking for the ground. He found it above Erge in 2023, put his own money into the slope, and has lived on it since.

BAGHI is the first project of this scale that is his own. That is why the money went in first, and why the product came before the architecture.

The founder →
Ilyan Vladimirov on the slope

08 · What you take home

A result you can feel on day three
and keep on day thirty.

Two formats
Reset, 3 nights. Deep Reset, 7 nights. Check in 15:00, check out 11:00. Mono-program cohorts, twelve guests at most.
Everything inside
All meals on your plate, rituals and treatments, activities, airport transfers, the concierge. You buy a flight. Nothing else.
A plan on paper
Your plates, your rhythm, your four-week plan, written by the wellness lead before you leave.
A reason to return
Most guests come twice a year: one program for the mind, one for the body. The slope changes with the season; the result holds.

Reserve your dates

Six lodges. Twelve guests. Your dates first.

The doors open in October 2027 with all four programs. Pre-reservation holds your lodge and your dates before the public calendar opens, with a complimentary second night to return within 200 days.

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