Tbilisi Municipality announced traffic restrictions on November 13: between 08:00 and 20:00, transport will not be able to cross the Metchi Bridge from Europa Square towards Vakhtang Gorgesli Square. The restrictions are related to the day of commemoration of the 100 thousand martyrs: in 1227, on the Matachi Bridge, the Horizim executed a hundred thousand Georgians who refused to trample icons. Georgia has honored their memory for almost eight centuries, and on this day the Georgian Orthodox Church traditionally serves on the bridge.