Park · Old Tbilisi, Tbilisi (Krtsanisi District), Tbilisi
National Botanical Garden of Georgia
საქართველოს ეროვნული ბოტანიკური ბაღი · Tbilisi Botanical Garden · National Botanical Garden
A botanical garden of more than 3,500 plant species in the Tsavkisistskali river gorge below Narikala, reached by a steep climb from Tbilisi's sulphur baths.
Where it is
41.6861, 44.8075
Why go
The garden follows a stream through a ravine in the old city, and the path along it leads to the Tsavkisistskali waterfall, which a wooden bridge built in 1898 looks straight onto. Georgia's tourism administration dates the grounds back four centuries, with 180 years as a botanical garden, and there is also a natural rock face within the gardens used for climbing. The main gate is on Botanikuri Street, up the lane from the baths, which makes the garden an easy addition to a morning around Narikala and Abanotubani.
Near National Botanical Garden of Georgia
Fortress
Narikala Fortress
Fortress walls crowning the ridge above Old Tbilisi between the sulphur baths and the botanical garden, with the rebuilt Church of St Nicholas inside and a cable car climbing up from Rike Park.
0 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Metekhi Church
A domed church on the Metekhi cliff above the left bank of the Mtkvari, facing Old Tbilisi across the river, built under King Demetrius II in the thirteenth century and fronted by an equestrian statue of Vakhtang Gorgasali.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Sioni Cathedral
Tbilisi's cathedral of the Dormition on Sioni Street in the old Kala quarter by the Mtkvari, where the cross venerated as that of St Nino is kept beside the iconostasis.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi
The principal cathedral of the Georgian Orthodox Church on Elia hill above Avlabari, completed in 2004 to a design by Archil Mindiashvili and rising 86.1 metres to the top of its cross.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ