Old Town Tbilisi, known locally as Dzveli Kalaki, is the living, breathing heart of the Georgian capital — a dense tangle of carved wooden balconies, sulphurous bathhouses, crumbling churches, and courtyard wine bars that somehow coexist without any of it feeling staged. Spread across the slopes above the Mtkvari River and dominated by the brooding Narikala Fortress, this is where Tbilisi's 1,500-year story is most legible, written in layers of Persian, Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet occupation that each left something behind without quite erasing what came before.
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