Business Traveller

Tbilisi by design

"Georgians have an eye for beauty,” my guide, Ketevan Akhobadze, tells me on my first day in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.

With overcast skies and showers, it was difficult to imagine that this was the same Tbilisi of brightly-coloured rooftops and resplendent chapels that Google had shown me. But by the end of the week, I’d seen plenty of the famed Georgian design aesthetic I had heard so much about.

Preserving the past, building a future

One could, of course, start with the obvious architectural wonders of the city. Likened to Stonehenge, the Chronicle of Georgia monument sits atop a hill overlooking the northern district of Tbilisi on one side and the Tbilisi sea (an artificial lake

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