Tbilisi in Blue
Tbilisi, Georgia
April 26, 2009
Tbilisi, Georgia
April 26, 2009
In a way, arriving in Tbilisi felt like returning to Europe. Churches bells rather than the Muezzin’s call woke me up in the morning, elegant art nouveau buildings sat alongside Soviet-era monstrosities and a meal was incomplete without a glass of wine.
Tbilisi’s a city with a long and tumultuous history that’s been invaded, burned down, rebuilt and invaded again too many times to record. Persians, Turks, Russians, Mongols, Arabs — everyone’s had a crack at this city on (one of the many) border zones between East and West. The result is a fascinating cultural and architectural mix that’s a joy to explore.
