Sights in Tbilisi
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Jvaris Mama Church
The Jvaris Mama Church has been a church since the 5th century. The current structure dates from the 16th century; its frescoes were recently restored in striking reds and blues, and the atmosphere is exquisitely pious and calm.
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Tavisuplebis moedani
Tavisuplebis moedani, with the city hall on its south side and a Marriott hotel on the west, was Lenin Square in Soviet times. Georgia's last Lenin statue, toppled in 1990, stood where a golden St George now spears his dragon.
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State Concert Hall
North from Rustavelis moedani, Kostava leads up to the State Concert Hall and Vere Park. The musical fountains outside the concert hall are a favourite with Tbilisi kids wanting to cavort and cool off in the heat of summer.
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Business Centre
The modernistic complex that looks like a space station is actually a new business centre built by the Georgian-Russian multi-billionaire Boris Ivanishvili. Beyond here the road loops down to the Sololaki neighbourhood.
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Tbilisi State University
Vake's main claim to fame is Tbilisi State University, near the start of Chavchavadzis gamziri. The main university building, circa 1906, is elegant, white and neoclassical. It was originally a school for the nobility.
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Echmiadzin Cathedral
Historically the Avlabari area housed Tbilisi's large Armenian population, one that has traditionally been focused around the Echmiadzin Cathedral, which is currently closed for restoration.
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Tbilisi History Museum
The Tbilisi History Museum, housed in an old caravanserai, includes some wonderfully evocative photographs of pre-Soviet Tbilisi and montages of old artisans’ workshops.
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Botanical Gardens
It’s easy to wander for two or three enjoyable hours in these extensive, waterfall-dotted gardens, which were opened in 1845 on what had earlier been the royal gardens.
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Sharden
Sharden and parallel Bambis rigi, along with Erekle II a little further north, are narrow pedestrian streets lined with fashionable galleries and cafés.
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Mamadaviti Church
At the halfway stop on the funicular up to Mount Mtatsminda is the Mamadaviti Church, an 1850s construction on the site of a hermitage of St Davit Gareja.
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National Pantheon
Just below the Mamadaviti Church, the National Pantheon contains graves of writers and public figures including Ilia Chavchavadze and Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
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Vardebis Revolutsis moedani
Just after the post office building made from glass and yellow stone comes Vardebis Revolutsis moedani which has views towards the Caucasus mountains.
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Kus Tba
A sporadically operating cable car sails up to woodland-surrounded Kus Tba, a popular summer spot for sunbathing, swimming, boating and strolling.
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Shahtakhti Fortress
Beyond Mother Georgia you pass the ruins of the Shahtakhti (Shah's Throne) fortress, which housed an Arab observatory.
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Norasheni Church
Next door to the Jvaris Mama Church is the disused Armenian Norasheni Church, dating from 1793.
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Synagogue
Tbilisi’s main synagogue is a very welcoming place built in 1904.
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