Itinerary
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Stop At: Jvari Church, Mtskheta Georgia
Jvari monastery of the 6th century, located on the top of the mountain allows you to see the beauty of nature and appreciate the architecture of the ancient builders. According to legend, this temple was built on the site of the cross, which was erected by St. Nino, the Enlightener of Georgia. Two rivers Kura and Aragvi merge here. This place is described in Lermontov Mtsyri.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, Arsukidze, Mtskheta 383400 Georgia
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, built in the XI century in honor of the 12 apostles of the Christian church. It is a symbol of the spirit of Georgian Orthodoxy, a place of baptism, burial of Georgian kings.
The cathedral was chosen as the site of the baptism of the first Christian Georgian king Mirian due to the legend that Jesus Christ was under the temple of Chiton.
Samtavro Convent, this is a whole complex of buildings, which in its architecture has preserved many significant Christian events from the history of Georgia. On the territory of the complex, King Mirian and Queen Nana, who first converted to Christianity as the head of state, rest, and the old Elder Gabriel, who is venerated in the guise of saints, rests.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Samtavro Church, Davit Aghmashenebelis qucha, Mtskheta 383400 Georgia
Samtavro is an Orthodox Christian monastery complex that combines Samtavro Transfiguration Church and Nunnery of St. Nino in Mtskheta, Georgia. Built presumably in the 4th century by the King Mirian III, and reconstructed in the 11th century by the King George I and Catholicos-Patriarch Melchizedek I, Samtavro is an important Early and High Medieval historical and architectural monument, protected by UNESCO. Samtavro church is a cross-in-square temple, with archature and other decorations typical for the 11th-century Georgian architecture. The famous Georgian Saint monk Gabriel is buried in the yard of Samtavro Church.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Open Air Museum of Ethnography, 1 Turtle Lake Road, Tbilisi Georgia
The museum is located west to Turtle Lake on a hill overlooking the Vake district, Tbilisi. It is essentially a historic village populated by buildings moved there from all main territorial subdivisions of Georgia. The museum occupies 52 hectares of land and is arranged in eleven zones, displaying around 70 buildings and more than 8,000 items. The exhibition features the traditional darbazi-type and fiat-roofed stone houses from eastern Georgia, openwork wooden houses with gable roofs of straw or boards from western Georgia, watchtowers from the mountainous provinces of Khevsureti, Pshavi, and Svaneti, Megrelian and Imeretian wattle maize storages, Kakhetian wineries (Marani), and Kartlian water mills as well as a collection of traditional household articles such as distaffs, knitting-frames, chums, clothes, carpets, pottery, and furniture.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Memorial History of Georgia, Tbilisi Georgia
The people nicknamed the monument "Georgian Stonehenge", since the monument "History of Georgia" is impressive in its scale and resembles a famous English monument. People who have visited here note that the memorial is striking in its size, and photographs do not convey a sense of grandeur and grandeur of the structure.
The complex consists of 16 columns with a height of 353 meters. The columns are made of bronze and copper and decorated with thematic bas-reliefs and high reliefs. Each column is divided into three parts: biblical subjects at the bottom, images of prominent Georgian figures (kings, poets, writers, enlighteners, military - each figure about 31 meters high) in the middle, and everyday scenes (harvesting, holidays) at the top. The columns are arranged in such a way that if you look at the complex from above, they form a cross.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Tsminda Sameba Cathedral, Elia Hill, Tbilisi Georgia
The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi (Georgian: Tbilisis cminda samebis sakatedro tadzari) commonly known as Sameba (Georgian: for Trinity) is the main cathedral of the Georgian Orthodox Church located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Constructed between 1995 and 2004, it is the third-tallest Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the world and one of the largest religious buildings in the world by total area. Sameba is a synthesis of traditional styles dominating the Georgian church architecture at various stages in history and has some Byzantine undertones.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Old Town (Altstadt) Tbilisi, Tbilisi Georgia
Old Tbilisi is principally centered on what is commonly referred to as the Tbilisi Historic District, which, due to its significant architectural and urban value, as well as the threat to its survival, was previously listed on the World Monuments Watch (1998, 2000, 2002)
Duration: 2 minutes