#Fortress

Abaata Fortress

The oldest building of Gagra: a fortress of the fifth and sixth centuries on the seashore at the mouth of the Zhoekvara gorge, closing the road from the west; w...

Anakopia Fortress

The remains of a fortified town on the summit of the Iverian Mountain above New Athos, the seat of the Abazgian eristavi in the eighth century and then of the K...

Ananuri Fortress

The seat of the eristavis of Aragvi, on the Aragvi river 72 kilometres from Tbilisi.

Askana Fortress

"Queen Tamar's castle" on a rock of the left bank of the Bakhvistskali between the Delemuri and Tapuriati mountains: a fortress built from the fourth to the nin...

Bzyb Fortress

A fortress of the age of the Kingdom of the Abkhazians on the right bank of the Bzyb, closing the valley and the pass towards the North Caucasus: walls of dress...

Gonio-Apsaros Fortress

A Roman fort at the mouth of the Chorokhi, 800 metres from the Black Sea shore: a rectangle 228 metres long and 195 wide with 18 towers, named by Pliny the Elde...

Gori Fortress

A medieval citadel on a high rocky hill in the centre of Gori, where the Great Liakhvi meets the Mtkvari. The site was already fortified in the last centuries o...

Kelasuri Wall

The "Great Abkhazian Wall": a line of fortifications from the mouth of the Kelasuri to the Enguri, with about a hundred of its 279 identified towers still stand...

Khertvisi Fortress

A medieval fortress by the village of Khertvisi in Aspindza municipality, on a high rocky cape where the Paravani flows into the Mtkvari: one of the oldest fort...

Khikhani Fortress

A medieval fortress in the village of Zeda Tkhilvana in Khulo municipality, at the head of the Skhalta valley, on a slope of Mount Khikhani atop a steep cliff a...

Khotevi Fortress and Archangel Church

Two monuments of Khotevi facing each other on the northern slope of the Racha range at 1,000 metres: the two-storey fortress of the Tsulukidze of the sixteenth...

Minda Fortress

The chief fortress of the eristavis of Racha above the village of Tsesi, on a high rocky spur at the confluence of the Lukhuni and the Rioni: in the words of Va...

Narikala Fortress

A fortress on the Sololaki ridge above old Tbilisi.

Rabati Castle (Akhaltsikhe)

The castle town of Akhaltsikhe, rebuilt in 2011 and 2012.

Rukhi Fortress

Levan II Dadiani's seventeenth-century fortress on a hill of the left bank of the Enguri, 7 kilometres from Zugdidi: the chief stronghold of the principality of...

Shkhepi Fortress

A medieval fortress near Senaki, with four building layers from the early fourth to the seventeenth century, two gates, three towers, a hall church and a defens...

Sukhumi Fortress

The remains of the Roman fort of Sebastopolis on the Sukhumi seafront, inspected by Flavius Arrian, turned by the Ottomans into Sukhum-Kale and the residence of...

Surami Fortress

A medieval fortress on a rocky hill in the northern part of the town of Surami in Khashuri municipality, on the left bank of the Suramula, where the road west o...

Tmogvi Fortress

The ruins of a medieval fortress-town by the village of Tmogvi in Aspindza municipality, on the left bank of the Mtkvari, on a high, hard-to-reach rocky mountai...