Tourist Attractions & Monuments Georgia

Timetable

Museums are generally open from 10am to 6pm, closed on Mondays for the most part, check their website before your visit. They are closed on Christmas Day.

To be booked

The Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi is open to visitors, but a guided tour must be arranged several days in advance.

Budget & Tips

Long live culture! We celebrate it by making it accessible: in fact, entrance fees to museums and other tourist sites are very moderate, in a range from 5 to 15 GEL.

Main events

Georgia is a very religious country, punctuated throughout the year by Orthodox festivals. St. George's Day is celebrated on 23 November and 6 May, Orthodox Christmas in January; Easter, like the Assumption, among others, are events of great importance in the country. Pagan festivals are not to be missed, such as the grape harvest in September-October in Kakhetia. Music, folklore, theatre and film festivals take place mostly in summer in Tbilisi (Art Gene Festival in July; there is also a film festival in December), and music festivals are very popular in Batumi, such as the Jazz Festival in July.

Guided tours

Tbilisi's Old Town is full of travel agencies on Kotha Abkhazi qucha, the street connecting Liberty Square to Meidan Square. Neighbouring each other, they all offer the same type of tours for about the same price, 60 GEL per day. You will be able to visit Tbilisi's close surroundings, such as Mtskheta and the nearby religious sites. Other excursions propose more distant destinations, such as Borjomi, Gori, and all the other tourist sites of Georgia, but beware, the daily program of the sites is busy, so the time of visit on the spot probably very short.

The Georgian Tourist Office also offers tours of Tbilisi by bus, departing from Freedom Square, next to its office. A French expatriate even organizes guided tours in tuk-tuk, just to mix the perfumes of Bangkok or Delhi with those of Tbilisi. Other travel agencies can organize themed tours, with English or sometimes French-speaking guides throughout the country. Treks in the Greater or the Lesser Caucasus, horseback riding, wine routes in Kakhetia, historical or archaeological cultural tours, with a theme of ethnology, meeting the inhabitants, sport, "off the beaten track" or also including explorations of Armenia or Azerbaijan: you will be spoilt for choice.

Smokers

All public places have been officially smoke-free since 2018. However, tobacco companies still have a bright future ahead of them, as Georgians are heavy smokers