Georgia Batumi Statue of Love at night

Ali and Nino Kiss Moving Sculptures of Love in Batumi Ali and Nino is a novel about a romance between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgi...Originally designed in 2007 with the name A Women and Man, the sculpture was installed in 2010 and subsequently renamed Ali and Nino, inspired by the novel written in 1937 by an Azerbaijani author using the pseudonym Kurban Said. It tells of a tragic love affair between a young Muslim Azerbaijani man and a Christian Georgian princess during the First World War. Theirs is a story of passionate love torn apart by culture, religion, and war, and has been hailed as one of the romantic novels of all time.