Alexander Garden

It was on an overcast Saturday afternoon (at the end of August 2020), we went for a long walk in Tbilisi.  Equipped with a baby stroller and DJI Mavic mini Drone here is what we found today: View towards Dry Bridge in Tbilisi In one of these building, you can see, is located famous 'former hotel London', where some 19th-century writers have stayed Aerial view of Tbilisi Many good things can be seen from this place (Alexander garden), like the Public Service house, Sameba church (in the…

Ok, I just learnt this place is renamed after Georgian poet Giorgi Leonidze, although I most often call this park -  Alexander Garden.  Parks of April 9 and Giorgi Leonidze (former Alexander Park) were cultivated in 1859 by the project of the architect O. Simenson. In 1865 the garden got its final form. It covered about 36.000 m2 areas. The garden was named in honour of the Emperor Alexander I. In the 30-eth of the XX century, after uniting the market and Dzneladze (present Tabukashvili)…