Rustaveli Avenue is the beating heart of Tbilisi's civic and cultural life — a grand, tree-lined boulevard named after Georgia's 12th-century national poet that stretches roughly a kilometre from Liberty Square down to the Rose Revolution Square. Built up during the Russian Imperial period and refined through Soviet rule, the avenue is lined with a remarkable parade of neoclassical facades, ornate balconied buildings, and serious cultural institutions that make it feel like a hybrid of a Parisian grand boulevard and a very specifically Caucasian kind of grandeur. This is where Georgia puts its best architectural foot forward.
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