Tbilisi Shopping

  1. Dom Vina

    A bountiful wine cellar offering up tipples from across Georgia.

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  2. Dry Bridge Market

    Dry Bridge market is the most interesting market. You'll find all kinds of knick-knacks and charming miscellanea from art, accordions, samovars and electrical gadgets to china, glass and silver being sold off by impoverished old folk.

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  3. Gallery Artgasm

    In the courtyard next to Prospero's Books, this gallery offers a range of funky items, from copper sculptures and enamelled jewellery to embroidered bags. All created by Tbilisi designers.

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  4. Geoland

    Georgia's best map supplier, Geoland sells Soviet military 1:50,000 sheets (the best available topographic and hiking maps) at L5 per A3 sheet, plus its own excellent 1:250,000 maps covering Georgia in six sheets ( L30 each), and a 1:650,000 country road map ( L30 ). You can buy these maps at the office or order by email. Geoland also plans to bring out its own updated 1:50,000 trekking maps and a Tbilisi city map, and it's opening a travellers' café on site.

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  5. Georgian Souvenirs

    Some of the stock here veers towards the kitsch, but the icons, dolls and puppets are eye-catching, and the decorative wine bottles are full! It's the spot if you're hankering for a Caucasian sword.

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  6. Green Sun Souvenirs

    Green Sun Souvenirs offers a range of interesting knick-knacks, from figurines to embroidered scarves.

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  7. Meidan 91

    Touted as the oldest carpet shop in the Caucasus, Meidan 91 is an Aladdin's cave of carpets, samovars, pewter and antique regional dress from across Georgia.

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  8. Populi

    Plenty of supermarkets offer a large range of foodstuffs. One of the best in the centre is Populi.

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  9. Prospero's Books

    This English-language bookshop and café has a terrific if expensive selection including lots of titles on Georgia and the Caucasus region. There are two computers for internet access.

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