Abano St.

23, Abano St. Abano Street is one of the oldest streets in the city, the foundation of which was probably laid with the construction of the first baths. It is mentioned in the list of streets of Tbilisi compiled in 1841. Most of the buildings here that have reached us date back to the middle of the 19th century, although they got their current look partly during the restoration of the 1970s, and partly during the rehabilitation of the bathhouse district in the 2010s. The building located at 23, Abano Street is also one of the early buildings of Abanotubani. From the 1860s photos of Dmitri Ermakov, a famous Russian photographer of Italian origin who worked in Tiflis at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it is clear that the house was originally two-story, and the upper two floors were built at the end of the 19th century. The main volume of the fairly large-sized building develops in the depth of the dense development of the area, while narrow facades protrude from the side of the street of Abano. A reticulate balcony resting on wooden Doric columns runs along their entire perimeter, which is the main decoration and artistic-architectural motif of the building. It is precisely such wooden houses with balconies that create the charm of the historical development of Abanotubani and a kind of visiting card of Tbilisi.