Places to visit in Tbilisi, Georgia
16 places to visit in Tbilisi, Georgia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Chronicle of Georgia, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kartlis Deda and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Tbilisi volume.
3 Famous places to visit · 13 Hidden gems
Famous places to visit in Tbilisi (3)
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Chronicle of Georgia
Sixteen bronze pillars, 30 to 35 metres tall, at the top of a long stairway on Keeni Hill near the Tbilisi Sea. The sculptor Zurab Tsereteli began it in 1985 and never quite finished: kings, queens and heroes fill the upper halves, the life of Christ the lower.
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Holy Trinity Cathedral
The main cathedral of the Georgian Orthodox Church, built between 1995 and 2004 and the third tallest Orthodox cathedral in the world. It draws on the styles of Georgian church building across the centuries, with a Byzantine undertone, and its gilded cross shows from much of the city.
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Kartlis Deda
An aluminium figure of a woman standing on the Sololaki ridge above the old town, put up in 1958. She holds a bowl of wine in one hand for those who come as friends and a sword in the other for those who come as enemies.
Hidden gems in Tbilisi (13)
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Abanotubani
The old bathhouse quarter of Tbilisi, where low brick domes rise from the ground above hot sulphur springs. The city takes its name from this warm water, tbili meaning warm in Georgian, and people still come to soak in the baths.
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Anchiskhati Basilica
The oldest surviving church in Tbilisi, a modest stone basilica of St Mary dating from the 6th century. It sits in the old town and still belongs to the Georgian Orthodox Church, its name taken from an icon brought here from the monastery of Anchi.
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Bridge of Peace
A bow shaped footbridge of steel and glass over the Kura, linking Rike Park with the old town. Opened in 2010 and designed by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, it is lit after dark by thousands of LEDs and has quickly become one of the most recognised sights in the capital.
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Georgian National Museum
A network formed in 2004 that brings the country's leading museums under one roof. Its main building on Rustaveli Avenue holds the archaeological treasury, where the gold jewellery of ancient Colchis is the thing most people come to see.
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Metekhi Church
A stone church on the Metekhi cliff, on the left bank of the Kura facing the old town. Most of what stands was built between 1278 and 1289 under King Demetrius II, though tradition traces a church here back to the 5th century. A statue of King Vakhtang Gorgasali on horseback stands beside it.
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Mtatsminda Park
An amusement park on top of Mount Mtatsminda, high above the city. A funicular climbs up to it, and its rides include a roller coaster, water slides and a big Ferris wheel set right at the edge of the mountain, with all of Tbilisi spread out below.
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Narikala Fortress
An ancient fortress of two walled sections on the steep ridge above Tbilisi and the Kura, between the sulphur baths and the botanical garden. Inside stands St Nicholas church, rebuilt in 1996 and 1997 on the site of a 13th century one lost to fire, its walls painted with scenes from the Bible and Georgian history.
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National Botanical Garden of Georgia
A garden of 161 hectares in the Tsavkisis-Tskali gorge, just behind Narikala fortress and the old town. Once the Tbilisi Botanical Garden, it holds more than 4,500 kinds of plants along paths that follow the stream up the valley.
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Old Tbilisi
The oldest part of the Georgian capital, a tangle of lanes, carved wooden balconies and church domes along the Kura below Narikala fortress. It was an official district only from 2007 to 2013, but everyone still uses the name, with no exact edges.
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Rike Park
A modern park on the left bank of the Kura, joined to the old town by the glass Bridge of Peace. Its lawns and fountains face the old quarter across the river, and the cable car that rises to Narikala fortress starts here.
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Rustaveli Avenue
The central avenue of Tbilisi, once Golovin Street and now named after Shota Rustaveli, the medieval poet. It is the city's grand boulevard, lined with plane trees, the opera house, theatres and museums.
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Sioni Cathedral
A cathedral of the Dormition in the old town, named, in an old Georgian custom, after Mount Zion in Jerusalem. It keeps the grapevine cross said to have been carried by St Nino, who brought Christianity to Georgia.
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Turtle Lake
A small lake in the wooded hills at the edge of Tbilisi, its name a straight translation of the Georgian Kus Tba. A cable car runs up to it from Vake Park, and locals come for walks and a swim on summer days.
Collecting in Tbilisi
What are the best places to visit in Tbilisi?
LOQAH lists 16 places in Tbilisi. The best known include Chronicle of Georgia, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kartlis Deda, Abanotubani and Anchiskhati Basilica. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Tbilisi?
16, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Tbilisi?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Tbilisi before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Tbilisi and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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