Tbilisi among “beautiful cities everyone should visit”
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Georgia's capital Tbilisi has been named by an international online magazine among a list of 53 beautiful cities everyone should visit at least once in their lifetime.
Online magazine Architecture & Design suggested a list of 53 cities across the globe, which it believed were worth visiting.
Tbilisi ranked 31st in the list.
With a quarter of Georgia’s population, Tbilisi is believed by some tourism professionals to be "the beating heart of the South Caucasus” and "should not be missed by any visitor”.
The city lies in the centre of eastern Georgia, in the foothills of the Trialeti mountain range.
The Legend
According to Georgian legends, Tbilisi was founded in the 5th Century by King Vakhtang Gorgasali who, while hunting, shot a pheasant which fell into a warm spring and was either boiled or healed.
Either way, the King was inspired to establish a city on the site, and the name of the city derives from the Georgian word "tbili” meaning "warm".
Georgia's unique food and drink is becoming more known to the Western world after a United States-based online lifestyle magazine placed Georgia high on a list ranking European countries by their indigenous cuisines.
One of America’s leading media outlets has recognised Georgia’s mountainous village Ushguli among the 16 best views of the year 2014.
The New York Times, one of America’s leading media outlets has ranked Georgia 25th among 52 locations worth visiting in 2015.
Georgia has been recognised as one of the world’s top lesser-known extraordinary destinations by prestigious British newspaper The Telegraph.
For those wanting to travel to new places without spending too much, Georgia is one of the best destinations to explore, says a United Kingdom-based website, who ranked Georgia among the countries with the lowest cost of living in the world.
One of Britain's leading newspapers The Guardian is promoting three types of tours of Georgia to its readers, which includes discovering the cobbled streets and hidden squares of old Tbilisi to the rock hewn monasteries at Vardzia and the mountains in Svaneti.
Fdi Intelligence, an English-language magazine that provides up-to-date reviews of investment and economic development in different European cities and regions, has put Tbilisi first on the list of its rating of European Cities and Regions of the Future 2020/2021 in the category of cost-effectiveness.