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In 80 km from Tbilisi, near the ancient city Kaspi, village Akhalkalaki ("new city", formerly a King's city) has been inspiring painters and filmmakers with its unique colour palette, impressive landscapes and fast changes of lighting conditions since 1900s. history

Garikula is driven by the passion to create the environment where artists can live and work together as one team; at the time of change, the desire to cooperate and establish useful contacts becomes stronger as it allows one to rethink the role of art and artist in the new world.

Bolgarski Citadel - the headquarters of Garikula, was built as a summer residence in 1885. The Polish engineer and architect (known to have engineered Central Exhibition Hall of Tbilisi) enjoyed his own generated electricity and a complex system of watering, filters and drainage that helped him in agricultural production and export.

After Soviet revolution the citadel served as the army base and the orphanage. The last successor of Bolgarski family, painter Vera Beletski, wished to create there an art school.
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