Gorgasali & old Tbilisi

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Gorgasali Square — old-timers call it Maidan — was for centuries the roaring bazaar heart of the city, where Silk Road caravans unloaded beside the river crossing. Above it, the king on horseback (Vakhtang Gorgasali himself) watches from the Metekhi cliff.

The lanes fanning out from it hold the essential old Tbilisi: leaning houses with glazed, carved balconies, courtyards strung with laundry, and doors into cool, dim caravanserais that once slept merchants and their camels.

🎒 Cobbles and hills all morning — the comfortable shoes advice is not theoretical today.