Presidential Palace, Tbilisi
historic palace in Tbilisi and official residence of the President of Georgia
The Presidential Palace (Georgian: საქართველოს პრეზიდენტის სასახლე, romanized: sakartvelos p'rezident'is sasakhle), the Orbeliani Palace (Georgian: ორბელიანის სასახლე, romanized: orbelianis sasakhle) or the Atoneli Residence (Georgian: ათონელის რეზიდენცია, romanized: atonelis rezidentsia) is the official residence of the president of Georgia since November 2018. It is located on Atoneli Street in Central Tbilisi. It was once home to Elizabeth Orbeliani, a Georgian poet and the country's first female academic.
History
The Orbeliani Palace dates back to the end of the 19th century. Its residents included Grigol Orbeliani, a Georgian Romanticist poet, and Elizabeth Orbeliani, a poet and Georgia's first woman professor. To this day, a room in the palace dedicated to Elizabeth Orbeliani is used to receive foreign dignitaries.
The building also served as the U.S. Embassy in Georgia in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2013, about 25 million Georgian lari was spent renovating the palace.
The palace is sometimes called the "Atoneli Residence" because it is located on Atoneli Street, named after the medieval Georgian monk George of Athos.
Presidential residence
Georgian politician and former French diplomat Salome Zourabichvili announced during her 2018 presidential campaign that she would not work from the Avlabari Presidential Palace if elected.
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