Rezo gabriadze wikipedia
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Clock Tower & Marionette Theater
Clock Tower
In 2010 Rezo Gabriadze built a unique clock tower next to marionette theatre in Tbilisi old town.
Rezo gabriadze wikipedia
Every hour an angel comes out with a small hammer to ring the bell.
There is a small puppet theatre inside the tower and twice a day at noon and at 7pm you can see a show – “The Circle of Life”.
Rezo decorated the tower with hundreds of tiles which he designed himself and the it instantly became a major architectural attraction of Tbilisi.
People often call it the Tower with clock or The Tower with angel.
Rezo Gabriadze speaking about the Tower and its construction:
When the construction began, I found myself, as if by a miracle of the time machine, in the faraway and beautiful Byzantine Empire of the 10th – 13th centuries.
The tower was to naturally blend with the surrounding space and time.
My table was piled with books on the architecture of Georgia, Byzantium, Italy and Russia…Books on the decorative ornaments, generously le