Georgia has made wine for 8,000 years, fermenting it in clay qvevri buried in the ground, a UNESCO-listed tradition. Kakheti, the main wine region, has family wineries for tastings. Sighnaghi is a hilltop town with town walls and views over the Alazani Valley to the Caucasus.
The Bodbe Monastery is nearby. The harvest (rtveli) is in September and October.
Georgia's capital, with an old town of carved wooden balconies, churches, and the sulphur baths of Abanotubani, beneath the Narikala Fortress, reache…
Georgia's ancient capital and spiritual centre, where Christianity became the state religion in the 4th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
An ancient rock-hewn town on the bank of the Mtkvari River, inhabited from the early Iron Age, with pagan temples, halls and a theatre carved from th…
A 14th-century church on a hilltop at 2,170 m below Mount Kazbek, 5,047 m, one of Georgia's iconic views.
A cave city carved into a cliff above the Mtkvari River in the 12th century under Queen Tamar, with hundreds of rooms, a church with frescoes, and tu…
A remote mountain region in the Caucasus with medieval stone defensive towers in every village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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