The central square of Kutaisi is called David Agmashenebeli Square. It is named after Tsar David IV of the Bagrationi dynasty. With the beginning of his reign, the Golden Age of the Georgian Tsardom began. Tsar David IV went down in history under the name David the Builder, but the Georgian word "Agmashenebeli" means more. It can be translated as "Restorer" or "Recreator".
Tsar David was crowned in the Bagrati Temple in 1089, when his country was a vassal of the Ottoman state. By that time, the Ottomans had already conquered vast territories that had previously been part of Byzantium. The capital of Georgia, the city of Tbilisi, at that time was the center of the Islamic emirate. Tsar David was able to rally the Georgian feudal lords, defeat the Turks in the Battle of Didgori and recreate an independent Georgian Kingdom. Tsar David was buried in the Gelati Monastery, which he founded in 1106.
In the center of David Agmashenebeli Square, there is a large Colchis fountain. It is one of the most beautiful cascading fountains in Georgia. Here you can see enlarged copies of figures found during excavations on the territory of the Colchian Kingdom. Thus, the architects of this fountain decided to popularize the myths of Ancient Colchis.
The gold and bronze figures that archaeologists found during the excavations of the Colchian cities date back to the 5th-6th millennium BC. They are kept in the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi. The art of Ancient Colchis is a mixture of the cultures of Ancient Greece and Persia. For a long time, the existence of the Colchian Kingdom was questioned, but excavations near Kutaisi confirmed the hypotheses of the existence of this legendary Kingdom.
Lado Meskhishvili Georgian Kutaisi Theater is located on David Agmashenebeli Square next to the Colchis Fountain. It is one of the oldest drama theaters in Georgia. The first performance on its stage was staged in 1861.
