Stories worth following.
People, places and the small details of every Voya city, written by those who live there.
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15 stories across Voya cities
Inside the courtyards
Behind every iron gate in old Tbilisi there is a shared world — a fig tree, a dripping tap, laundry strung between two centuries. We spent a season in four of them.
TbilisiA chef and his grandmother’s kitchen
Cooking with the window open.
TbilisiWhat the Dry Bridge keeps
Old silver, Soviet buttons and the dealers who dress the city’s stylists.
TbilisiThe painter who works only at night
For fifteen years he has painted the same street from the same round window — only after midnight, when the city finally goes quiet.
TbilisiA gallery behind a green door
Three rooms, no sign, and the city’s most talked-about young painters.
TbilisiFelt, wool and the new tailors
Old Georgian felt and wool, cut for now. Meet the young tailors of Tbilisi who are making the city’s autumn uniform.
TbilisiBread from the clay oven
Five in the morning in Old Tbilisi, and the whole street already knows whether the shoti came out right.
TbilisiThe balconies of Sololaki
Carved wood, peeling paint and the families who refuse to leave. A walk under the balconies that make Sololaki what it is.
TbilisiThe cable car above the river
Four minutes, two hills and the best view of the old town.
TbilisiA window above the clouds
Three days in Kazbegi, and a view that changes every hour.
TbilisiStreet signs of the old town
Hand-painted letters, enamel plates and the people who still make them.
TbilisiRooms with a view
How the city’s new hotels borrow from old apartments.
TbilisiThree voices, one old song
A polyphony choir rehearses in a cellar under an old house.
TbilisiEight thousand vintages and counting
In Kakheti, the qvevri does the work and the winemaker stays out of its way.
TbilisiThe last kiln on Leselidze Street
Clay, glaze and a workshop that has outlived three governments.