Vera Park, Urban park in Vera district, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Vera Park is a 1.2-hectare park in Tbilisi's Vera district, between Merab Kostava and Niko Nikoladze streets and the Kura riverbank. Its French-style entrance and central square are planted with seasonal flowers and tall shrubs, and the garden holds 62 species of trees and shrubs, including 10 conifers such as Himalayan cedar and Eldar pine.
The land belonged to the Danibegashvili family in the mid-18th century and later held a cemetery, which the city government closed in 1898 with the consent of the Georgian exarch. The park opened on 18 July 1934 after landscaping to a design by agronomist A. Machavariani, and in the Soviet period it bore Sergei Kirov's name. His monument, erected in 1936, was removed in 1989, when the park regained the name Vera Garden.
The park serves as a meeting point where locals spend their free time and gather for outdoor events. Walking through it, you notice how the paths and green areas encourage people to pause and connect with each other.
Vera Park sits between Merab Kostava and Niko Nikoladze streets and the Kura river embankment, so it can be entered from several sides. The Chess Palace of Nona Gaprindashvili stands on the grounds, and the Lourdes (Blue) Monastery is next to the park. Paths are level and suited to a slow walk.
Buried in the former cemetery grounds are the graves of writer Daniel Chonkadze and his wife, and of Lavrenti Ardaziani; the park also holds the graves of Aliosha, Alexandra and Simon Japaridze, founders of Georgian mountaineering. A bust of Merab Kostava, sculpted by V. Arunashvili with architect Sh. Iordanishvili, was placed here in 1999.
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