Old Town
Old Town
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Lonely Planet review for Old Town
Tbilisi grew up below the walls of the Narikala Fortress which stands on the Sololaki ridge above the west side of the Mtkvari gorge. Today the twisting alleys of the Old Town, which is known locally as Kala, are still full of hidden courtyards and carved wooden balconies leaning at rakish angles. Though almost no buildings here survived the destruction by the Persians in 1795, many of those standing today date from soon after that and still have the Eurasian character of earlier times.
The main thoroughfare of the Old Town today (though sometimes traffic-clogged) is Leselidze.
