Tbilisi TV tower to be illuminated in French tricolor for Bastille Day
The French Embassy thanked Tbilisi City Hall for marking the National Day with "this highly appreciated gesture". Photo: French Embassy/Facebook
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The Tbilisi TV tower, one of the iconic sights of the Georgian capital, will be illuminated in the colours of the French national flag for three days to mark Bastille Day, the Embassy of France to Georgia announced on Thursday.
The celebration - also known as French National Day - marks the anniversary of the July 14, 1789 storming of the Bastille, a pivotal event connected to the French Revolution.
France will mark Bastille Day with a military parade in Paris that will this year also serve as a salute to Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion.
The parade on the Champs-Elysees will open on Thursday with the presentation of the flags of nine guest countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
The French Embassy thanked Tbilisi City Hall for marking the National Day with "this highly appreciated gesture".
The Tbilisi TV tower has been lit up with the colours of the French flag as a sign of support and express solidarity with France in the fight against the new coronavirus.
Award-winning Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili was under the spotlights at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Saturday, where the celebrated artist performed alongside stars of opera and classical music for France's National Day celebrations.
Contemporary history enthusiasts have a new exhibition in Tbilisi to satiate their interest with, after high-profile guests launched a display of French diplomatic archives on Georgia’s First Democratic Republic in the capital.
France and Georgia are launching a high level dialogue format named after Georgian prince Dimitri Milakhvari, a French military officer and Lieutenant Colonel of the French Foreign Legion who played an important role in the French Resistance against Nazi occupation during the World War II.
Tbilisi’s hilltop TV tower has been illuminated in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with the city council announcing the symbolic move on Wednesday.
The iconic Tbilisi TV tower was illuminated, on Saturday, in the colours of the national flags of different countries in honour of the capital’s “friendly” cities, with Georgia’s capital celebrating the annual city festival Tbilisoba 2022 on the weekend, Tbilisi city hall said.
Georgia’s French-born President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday extended her well-wishes to the French people on their national holiday of Bastille Day by calling it a “source of inspiration for freedom”