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Tbilisi holidays

January 2019

  • Dancers at Horoom, part of Bassiani in Tbilisi.

    The world's best parties
    Bassiani: the Tbilisi techno mecca shaking off post-Soviet repression

    After a police raid prompted mass protests, the defiantly queer nightclub became an emblem of a new, progressive Georgia. Its founders explain how they’re standing up to conservatism

December 2018

  • The old town of Tbilisi, Georgia, with the clock tower of Rezo Gabriadze puppet theatre.

    ‘Mind-blowingly gorgeous Georgia’

    A mix of traditional, Soviet and modern styles, Georgia is a tricky place to pin down. But that’s half the fun of it for Suzanne Moore and her friend

November 2018

  • The Bridge of Peace, which some say looks like a discarded sanitary towel; to its right the conjoined concert hall and exhibition centre, and the presidential palace with its glass egg.

    Vanity projects and kamikaze loggias: Tbilisi’s architectural disaster

    The centre of the Georgian capital has long been the plaything of outsize egos – but can its architecture biennial inspire useful debate about the city’s future?

April 2018

  • DJ at the decks at Khidi, a nightclub in a former industrial space in Tbilisi, Georgia.

    Nightlife reports
    Art, beats and fashion: an inside view of Tbilisi's creative boom

    Fashion, nightlife and the arts are flourishing in Georgia’s capital, with the seeds of creativity sown by a growing number of young artists and collectives eager to shake up the system

October 2017

  • Georgia by drone

    New East network
    One last time over Georgia - drone photography

    Georgia introduced new rules restricting the use of drones last month but before they came into force, Amos Chapple, one of the early pioneers of drone photography, captured the country’s diverse landscapes from above

June 2017

  • Taken from above, a wooden serving board featuring a plate of Georgian dumplings, plus seasonal vegetables and a dipping sauce.

    The foodie traveller
    Tbilisi titbits: the Georgian dumpling from the hills

    These parcels of meat or veg are wolfed down as enthusiastically in Tbilisi as in the countryside, and washed down with beer and a shot of vodka

June 2016

  • Tbilisi's Narikala Castle Helen Osbourne

    Insider's guides
    Insider's guide to Tbilisi: protests, free wine and salted fish

  • Aerial, widescreen, view of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia

    Why I love …
    Georgia on his mind: Chris Morgan Jones’s Tbilisi highlights

October 2015

  • Tbilisi old town and Narikala fortress.

    Tbilisi's cultural revolution

    The Georgian capital is steeped in tradition but a new generation of artists and entrepreneurs is offering an alternative to the old ways with a stylish restaurants, hotels, bars and galleries

July 2015

  • Who would not be upset by the spectacle of a hippo wandering innocently through the streets until it was shot by a tranquiliser dart?

    Tbilisi zoo tragedy: the pathos of an escaped hippo

    The pictures of wild animals being cornered or shot in Tbilisi’s streets were sure-fire magnets of human feeling
  • Rescue workers drag away a tiger killed by flooding at Tbilisi zoo.

    The tragedy of Tbilisi zoo – what happened next?

    Last month a river surge allowed bears, tigers and a giant hippo to escape in the Georgian capital. But the devastating images of stricken animals only told half the story
  • Media coverage of Tbilisi’s flood focused on the zoo animals, despite the deaths of 19 people in the disaster.

    Resilient cities
    The human cost of the Tbilisi floods: 'The truth is, I'd really lost all hope'

    After the Georgian capital’s worst floods in living memory swept away buildings and left wild animals roaming the city, Tbilisi residents are now asking if a history of poor urban planning was partly to blame

June 2015

  • Tbilisi

    New East network
    Can the Tbilisi hippo become the symbol of Georgia’s flood recovery?

    Zoo animals roaming the streets of Georgia’s capital have come to signify the disaster. Can they now help with the clean up?

February 2015

  • ornate buildings of Tbilisi with hills behind

    Joanne O'Connor's great escapes
    Travel tips: east meets west in Tbilisi, plus deals of the week

    Visit the enigmatic Georgian city with its Byzantine churches and domed bathhouses; plus a lambing holiday in Scotland and luxury in Palma, Mallorca. By Joanne O’Connor

June 2009

  • Getting a massage in a bath house in Tblisi, Georgia

    Great journeys
    Great journeys: touchdown in Tbilisi

    In the first part of his journey across Georgia, Max Walker arrives in Tbilisi to find fellow tourists are few and far between - an effect of last year's war with Russia

February 2000

  • Georgia on my mind

    In the 1990s, the city was torn by civil war, but Mark Espiner finds it magical, infectious and seriously intoxicating.

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