Sulfur baths & the old town

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Abanotubani — “bath district” — is the row of low brick domes at the foot of the fortress, each dome the roof of an underground bathhouse fed by naturally hot, egg-scented sulfur water. This is the literal birthplace of the city.

Alexander Pushkin bathed here in 1829 and wrote that he had never encountered anything more luxurious than the Tbilisi baths — the compliment is still painted proudly at the entrance of one of them.

🎒 If you come back for a soak later in the trip: book a private room, and say yes to the kisa scrub — brutal and glorious.