Tour: Interesting Georgia

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Tour: Interesting Georgia

Interesting Georgia

1 Day.

Arrival to Tbilisi Airport, Tbilisi hotel

Dinner at the folk restaurant

tbilisi

2 Day

Guided tour around Tbilisi:

Freedom Square

Bridge of Peace

Sioni Church -The “Sioni” Cathedral of the Dormition. The Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral is situated in historic Sionis Kucha (Sioni Street) in downtown Tbilisi, with its eastern façade fronting the right embankment of the Mtkvari River. It was initially built in the 5th century. Since then, it has been destroyed by foreign invaders and reconstructed several times. The current church is based on a 12th-century version with some changes from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Sameba Cathedral- new and the biggest cathedral, built in 2003

Rustaveli Avenue – the central avenue of the city

Mtskheta – royal city and old capital of Georgia

Mtskheta – ancient capital of east Georgia, from IV century BC. After moving political center to Tbilisi, Mtskheta remained as spiritual center of the country. Once more it became political center – in X – IX centuries, while Tbilisi was still occupied by Arabs and known as Tbilisi emirate. Currently it is little town 20 km from Tbilisi.

Here are prechristianity archaeological and Christianity architectural monuments, which are recognized by UNESCO as world heritage sites.

Svetitskhoveli

Svetitskhoveli cathedral built XI century is the most respected holy place and very important architectural monument of Georgia. It served as burial place of Georgian kings and their offspring till modern time. According to the legend Christ’s robe is preserved in Svetitskhoveli

Jvari

Jvari monastery built in VI century on top of hill, from where is perfect view on town Mtskheta and surroundings.

Dinner, back to hotel

uplistsikhe

3 Day

Uplistsikhe – Ubisa-Kutaisi

Breakfast at the hotel

Going to Uplistsikhe

Uplistsikhe (Georgian: უფლისციხე; literally, "the lord's fortress") is an ancient rock-hewn town in eastern Georgia, some 10 kilometers east of the town of Gori, Shida Kartli. Built on a high rocky left bank of the Mtkvari River, it contains various structures dating from the Early Iron Age to the Late Middle Ages, and is notable for the unique combination of various styles of rock-cut cultures from Anatolia and Iran, as well as the co-existence of pagan and Christian architecture.

Ubisa (Georgian: უბისა) is a small village and a medieval monastic complex in Georgia, particularly in the region Imereti, some 25 km from the town Kharagauli.

The monastic complex of Ubisa comprises a 9th-century St. George’s Monastery founded by St. Gregory of Khandzta, a 4-floor tower (AD 1141), fragments of a 12th-century defensive wall and several other buildings and structures. The monastery houses a unique cycle of murals from the late 14th century made by Damiane apparently influenced by art from the Byzantine Palaiologan period (1261-1453).

The monastery is also known for its honey made by the monks.

Kutaisi was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Colchis. Archeological evidence indicates that the city functioned as the capital of the kingdom of Colchis as early as the second millennium BC.

Dinner, night at hotel in Kutaisi

4 Day

Sataplia-Prometeus cave-Vani

Sataplia State Reserve is a most multifarious and very rare monument. It is of complex character and contains geologic, paleontological, speleological and botanical monuments.

The Sataplia Mountain is famous by its rarest and the most beautiful caves. This cave was firstly noticed by Kutaisi museum employee, pedagogues P. Chabukiani who was able to make organization of this valuable monument protection by the local government, and in 1933, there was found a dinosaur trace.

Prometheus Cave. Discovered in Imereti region in 1984, Prometheus Cave is one of Georgia’s natural wonders providing visitors with breathtaking examples of stalactites, stalagmites, curtains, petrified waterfalls, cave pearls, underground rivers, and lakes.

Vani. Vani there is an interesting museum (founded in 1985), where some unique pieces of the ancient Colchis are exhibited.

Back to Tbilisi, dinner

pesheri prometeia