Sights of Tbilisi

Recent years Tbilisi has been rebuilt and many new buildings, cultural or just entertainment centers, new parks have created. There are many beautiful and interesting things to visit and see the sights of the capital of Georgia (country). The number of tourists and foreign visitors are increasing in these years. The tourist’s attractions have become the old Tbilisi district such as Rike, Sololaki, Metekhi, and so on.

While walking through Tbilisi streets, you’ll get a lot of pleasure. People are smiling at you, and you feel warmth and love from them. There are a lot of new shops you can visit and buy the brand clothes, shoes or even wines, some valuable gifts and antique things.

Walking down on Rustaveli Avenue which is one of the central streets in capital of Georgia (country), you can see the monument of Shota Rustaveli, great, popular and well-known Georgian poet, who was lived in 12^th century during King Tamar. Near to this monument there is Mc Donald’s, which has many customers all the time.

On this territory there is one small place, where Georgians are selling their hand made things such as icons, pictures, daggers, hats, and many other beautiful things and gifs.

On the Rustaveli Avenue there are the brand shops of Swarovski, Next, Zara, Benetton. People can enter different cafes,bars or restaurant  and taste delicious Georgian food . 

The parliament of Georgia is also located on Rustaveli Avenue. In front of this building there is Qashueti Church.

Down to Rustaveli Street there is Tavisufleba Square. You can do down to Leselidze street which is one of the old streets. There are many shops where the icons, candles and some gifts are sold. At the end of this street there is one of the main church called Sioni Cathedral. On this territory there is also located the Catholic Church.

I'll talk about other sights of Tbilisi in the next post.

Tbilisi – Capital of Georgia (country)

Capital of Georgia country is located at the south-east part of Georgia, too far from the geographical center, but the location of Tbilisi is exactly at the middle of Caucasus. That's why for centuries Tbilisi was not only capital of Georgia, but it served the function of Caucasus main city for centuries. 

The nature of Tbilisi is diverse. River Mtkvari goes along the whole city. The river separates the capital of Georgia country into 2 parts: right and left riversides. In the right part there are rivers Digmistskali and Vere, which connects to the main River Mtkvari. River Mtkvari is the main artery of capital of Georgia country. The length of river inside the city is 35 meters.

There are 2 lakes in Tbilisi – The Turtle Lake and Lisi Lake.

The 630 meters high mountain Makhata is located at the left riverside of Mtkvari.

Climate in Tbilisi is generally subtropical. The summer is too hot, the average temperature in July is about 25 C.  Winter is cold, the temperature is 0 C. The maximum number of sediments is during spring and minimum during winter period.

During the history the coldest day was in 1983 with minus 22 C and the hottest in1996 with 41 C.

The population in Tbilisi has been changing during the centuries. In the middle centuries when King Tamar was reigning there lived about one hundred thousand people. Different battles during the history have affected the population of Tbilisi dramatically. Because of different reasons the number of population has been changing and now it totals to 1 million 81 thousand people.

Visitors and tourists will have the pleasure of seeing different historical, cultural and architecturally-significant building and monuments, theaters, museums and the exhibitions. Tourists have the chance to taste Georgian wine and understand the culture of wine country

Tbilisi is a political-administrative center of the country. Georgian parliament and many other administrative and social organizations are functioning here.