For the first time in the history of Georgia, the Soviet mosaic will be actually used as a main tool for the economic development of the city, focused on attracting tourists and, accordingly, to increase the tourist flow in Georgia.
Solidarity Fund PL in Georgia, which has been successfully cooperating with regional municipalities for several years, focusing on supporting democratic transformations, building civil society, developing the principles of good governance and local democracy, as well as sharing experiences in economic and systemic transitions, is now implementing a project in Zestafoni called “The new face of the city”. This project is designed to help the city not only maintain, but also increase economic performance after the city is away from the highway currently being under construction. Project is co-financed by the Polish development cooperation program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
As part of this project, the Solidarity Foundation PL, in collaboration with the Ribirabo Foundation, decided to use three wonderful mosaics that have been preserved in Zestafoni today as a tourist attraction. As you may know, there were six large mosaic panels in Zestafoni. Our foundation in collaboration with DRV has already managed to save and move one of them to Khoni, to the House of Culture, built for immigrants from Abkhazia; while three other mosaics located on the facades of the Ferroalloy Plant were destroyed in the early 2000s.
We are currently rehabilitating the Zestafoni mosaics. One of them, which was threatened with rapid destruction, will soon be moved from its current location to the G. Nikoladze square, which will make it more accessible to the public. While the other two, which are in the hands of private owners, will be cleaned of almost 40 years of dirt and dust, and will sparkle again with their original bright colors. (See our previous posts about how we cleaned Zestaponi mosaics).
Just like the Polish Solidarity Foundation, we are confident that the rehabilitated mosaics and the events planned in their context will certainly make a significant contribution to the development of the city of Zestafoni and increase its popularity with tourists.
Project is co-financed by the Polish development cooperation program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
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