Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi

The Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel is a hotel in the city center of Tbilisi located on Rose Revolution Square. The hotel was built in 1967 by the Soviet government as the premier luxury hotel of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and was named Hotel Iveria after the ancient kingdom of Iveria. As a result of the war in Abkhazia in 1992, the hotel became a refugee camp housing more than 800 refugees. In 2004 the refugees were removed from the hotel and offered $7000 per room. The dilapidated hotel was stripped down to its steel structural frame and completely rebuilt as a modern luxury business hotel, managed by the Radisson Hotels group. It reopened in 2009 as the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel.^[1]

Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi
Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi, on left
General information
Location	Rose Revolution Square, Tbilisi, Georgia
Coordinates	41°42′14″N 44°47′37″E
Opening	1967, 2009
Management	Carlson Rezidor Hospitality
Technical details
Floor count	18
Other information
Number of rooms	249
Parking	Yes

The hotel stripped to its steel skeleton in 2007

The hotel serving as refugee housing in 2002

References

1. Manning, Paul (November 2008). "The Hotel/Refugee Camp Iveria: Symptom, Monster, Fetish, Home" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links and references

• Official Homepage