Budget · 3-hour walk · Tbilisi
Old Tbilisi in three hours
The glass bridge and the sulphur baths, the fortress above them, and the old town in between.
Tbilisi's old town is small, steep and half-restored, wrapped around the sulphur springs the city was founded on. The cable car up to the fortress costs less than a euro and takes the climb out of the walk, which is the only sensible way to do it. Everything here is within fifteen minutes of everything else.
The route, stop by stop
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Freedom Square
The centre of the city and the end of Rustaveli Avenue, with a gold St George on a column in the middle.
15 min here Walk here → -
Bridge of Peace
A glass-and-steel footbridge from 2010 that the city argued about for years and now photographs constantly.
15 min here Walk here → -
Abanotubani
The sulphur bath quarter, under brick domes at ground level. Private rooms are rented by the hour and the water genuinely smells.
30 min here Walk here → -
Narikala Fortress
Take the cable car up from Rike Park. Fourth-century foundations, free to walk, and the whole city below you.
40 min here Walk here → -
Rustaveli Avenue
The main boulevard, with the opera house, the parliament and the national museum along a single kilometre.
25 min here Walk here →
More in Tbilisi
Every walking route in Tbilisi, or the full Tbilisi guide for where to stay and what a day costs.