page_title: Ceremonial Palace of Georgia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ceremonial Palace of Georgia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: President of Georgia arriving to the Presidential Palace in Tbilisi
context_page_description: The Ceremonial Palace of Georgia and Avlabari Presidential Residence, is the executive body of administration of President of Georgia. Housed in a refurbished building of the former Imperial gendarmerie, the Presidential administration is located on the left bank of the Kura River, in the Avlabari district of Tbilisi, Georgia.
context_section_description: The construction of the administration building commenced in 2004 on the basis of a 19th-century neoclassical edifice, which formerly housed the Imperial gendarmerie; the work was finalized in 2009. The final version was designed by an Italian architect Michele De Lucchi who had also designed the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, The Bridge of Peace in Tbilisi and Medea hotel in Batumi. 
  Façade of the Presidential Office appears in mosaic authored by Georgian designer Natalia Amirejibi de Pita with an aphorism from the medieval Georgian poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin: "Good hath overcome ill; the essence of  is lasting".The largest element of the project are two shimmering "water mirrors"-28 long and 1,6 m high (89,6m2) mosaics in front of the complex main building called"Our background and our identity"encapsulating the entirety of Georgia's complicated and colourful history accomplished by Natalia Amirejibi de Pita.
  The dome of the building, constructed out of three-dimensional bent glass in Germany, was designed by a Georgian architect Vakhtang Zesashvili and Italian Architect Franc Zagari. In front of the administration building, facing the main entrance stands a rotating monument in three colors, designed by Ambassador of Georgia to Germany and granddaughter of last Emperor of Austria Charles I of Austria, Gabriela von Habsburg, representing three branches of government - legislative, executive and judicial.
caption: President of Georgia arriving to the Presidential Palace
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