Old Tbilisi

Old Tbilisi is best explored on foot with your head tilted up, as carved wooden balconies hang over its narrow lanes. The gallery takes in the Betlemi quarter with its stone stairway and churches, the so-called Italian courtyards with shared wooden galleries and drying laundry, a painted entrance hall and old corner houses with cast iron balconies. Further down in Abanotubani you will find the brick domes of the sulfur baths, the blue tiled facade of the Orbeliani bath, the minaret of the Juma mosque and Meidan square. The leaning clock tower of the Gabriadze theatre and the statue of Vakhtang Gorgasali below Narikala complete the walk.

Steep stone stairs of the Betlemi ascent between brick walls in Old Tbilisi

Brick bell tower of the Betlemi church beside a wooden balcony house in Old Tbilisi

Stone dome and arched walls of the Betlemi church in Old Tbilisi, Georgia

Brick drum of an old town church with Mtatsminda hill rising above Tbilisi

Stone church with brick filled windows in the Betlemi quarter of Old Tbilisi

Tin roofs of Old Tbilisi seen from a stone terrace in the Betlemi quarter

Leaning Gabriadze clock tower with mosaic decoration in Old Tbilisi

Narrow Old Tbilisi alley with Georgian flag bunting and a cafe terrace

Three tiers of blue carved wooden balconies in an old Tbilisi courtyard with drying sheets

Brick church tower behind a yellow wooden balcony and roses in Old Tbilisi

Carved wooden balconies of an old Tbilisi house beside the minaret of the Jumah mosque

Carved turquoise wooden balcony of an old Tbilisi house with laundry drying below

Colorful balconied houses along a steep Old Tbilisi street leading to the brick mosque minaret

King Vakhtang Gorgasali monument above the old town rooftops with Narikala fortress behind

Wooden gallery balconies of an old Tbilisi courtyard with laundry and potted plants

Worn wooden gallery of a shared old Tbilisi house with tables and drying laundry

Brick domes of the Abanotubani sulfur baths seen from above in Tbilisi

Blue tiled facade of the Orbeliani baths above the Leghvtakhevi gorge in Tbilisi

Cars and lit shopfronts on Meidan square in Old Tbilisi at dusk

Sunlit corner house with a painted blue balcony in central Tbilisi

Crumbling brick facades and tangled wires above a vintage bar sign in central Tbilisi

Sunlit glazed double doors and a worn wooden floor inside an old Tbilisi apartment

Weathered corner house in Tbilisi with an ornate cast iron balcony