El Pais about Georgia
Puppet shows, thermal baths, a large botanical garden
with Himalayan plants and a lively
historic center American author John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. who won
the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and
imaginative writings, said that the Russians who had
led a virtuous life did not go to heaven, but to Georgia. Tbilisi ,
its capital, of one million inhabitants, proposes a journey through
time. At the same time a camp of Persian caravans, a Czarist
capital, a booty of Mongols, an Ottoman labyrinth and an old Soviet
showcase that begins to be populated with invasive skyscrapers.
Geographically already in Asia, in its decline and its simultaneous
strength offers a decided image of European city at once exotic and
familiar.
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