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Tbilisoba in Tbilisi
Tbilisoba marks Tbilisi's city day each autumn with one of Georgia's largest public festivals, drawing crowds across the historic Old Town for food, wine, traditional dress and music celebrating the capital's specific civic identity. First held in 1979, the festival has run continuously through the late Soviet period, independence and subsequent decades, giving it unusual political continuity.
Tbilisoba marks Tbilisi's city day each autumn with what has grown into one of Georgia's largest public festivals, drawing crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands across the historic Old Town and other central districts for a weekend built around food, wine, traditional dress and music celebrating the capital's specific civic identity.