Tsinandali
Tsinandali
წინანდალი | |
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Area code | +995 |
Tsinandali (Georgian: წინანდალი) is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, situated in the district of Telavi, 79 km east of Tbilisi. It is noted for the palace and historic winery-estate[2] which once belonged to the 19th-century aristocratic poet Alexander Chavchavadze (1786–1846) and which, since 2019, is the venue for the Tsinandali Festival.[3]
History
Alexander Chavchavadze inherited this village, lying in the
The village and the Chavchavadze estate were further famed by a surprising raid by the troops of
After David Chavchavadze's death, due to the failure to pay the debt to the Russian Public Bank, the estate passed to the property of the
Sightseeing
Tsinandali Historic Garden
Tsinandali Historic garden takes 12 acres of land today, but it was much bigger during Prince Alexander's time. Alexander Chavchavadze invited European landscape architects and directed a lot of money to build first European style garden in Georgia. Tsinandali Garden is considered to be one of the few remaining examples of early 19th Century landscape designs, here visitors can see not only local species of trees and shrubs but also species from every continent (
Tsinandali Old Winery
Prince Alexander Chavchavadze built wine cellar and wine factory in his estate in 1830s. He also started collecting wine collection and today Tsinandali Oenotheque counts over 16 500 historic bottles of wine starting from 1814 till today. Among them should be distinguished Polish Honey (1814) Château d'Yquem (1861) and first Georgian bottled wine of 1841, Saperavi (This is the oldest bottled wine in Georgia) 19th-century wine cellar is unique with its engineering, that allows to keep constant temperature and humidity in the chambers that are best for wine keeping. In the 19th century a fashionable salon was located in Tsinandali estate, where aristocrats from different countries gathered lived a stormy life. Alexander Dumas once compared Tsinandali to a paradise. In 1888 Tsinandali Wine cellar together with other heritage transferred to Romanov imperial family. and winery was renovated by the architect Alexander Ozerov. Today Tsinandali Wine Cellar still hosts big wine collection as well as providing venues for conferences and classical music concerts. Starting from 2019 it will host Tsinandali Classical music festival.
See also
References
- ^ "მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერა 2014" [Universal description of the population in 2014] (in Georgian). National Statistics Office of Georgia. November 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ Lonely Planet Georgia
- ^ Tsinandali Festival website
- ISBN 0-520-21929-5.
- ISBN 0-7146-3431-X.
- ^ Archived version of the Smithsonian site discussing the plans for the estate's development
- ^ Tsinandali Estate article by Tata Kvatchadze in 2013
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