Garikula is one of many villages in Shida Kartli’s Kaspi region, an area with a history that reaches as far back as the Stone Age. During medieval times the region was the epicenter of conflict between the Ottomans, Persians, and Georgians. Although the Bolsheviks blew up most of the old palaces of Georgian noble families, …
The writer’s House is located in Sololaki, Machabeli street, it is the monument of cultural heritage, built-in 1903-1905 by a famous Georgian entrepreneur, and a big philanthropist –David Sarajishvili. Boris Pasternak, John Steinbeck, Robert Capa, Heinrich Böll, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg-this is just a shortlist of prominent guests who visited the mansion during …