Places
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Gelati Monastery
The royal monastery and academy founded by David the Builder in 1106, 11 kilometres from Kutaisi: a "new Hellas" with Ioane Petritsi and Arsen Ikaltoeli, the mo...
Green Monastery
The monastery of St George at Chitakhevi, popularly called the Green Monastery, stands in a narrow wooded gorge in the village of Chitakhevi in Borjomi municipa...
Jumati Monastery
The monastery of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel on the Guria range above the Supsa valley at 492 metres, from which all of western Georgia comes into view:...
Kamani Monastery
A monastery north of Sukhumi in the village of Kamani, which tradition links with the death and first burial of St John Chrysostom: rebuilt in the 1980s on the...
Katskhi Pillar
A 40-metre limestone monolith in the Katskhura valley near Chiatura, the "Pillar of Life", on whose 150-square-metre top stood a hermitage of the ninth to tenth...
Khobi Monastery
A thirteenth-century hall church rich in stone carving in the village of Nojikhevi, 4 kilometres from Khobi: the family abbey and burial place of the Dadiani, w...
Kintsvisi Monastery
A medieval monastery in Kareli municipality, on a forested slope of the Dzama valley, 3 kilometres from the village of Qintsvisi. Its main church of St Nicholas...
Martvili Monastery
The seventh-century cathedral of Martvili-Chkondidi on the site of a pagan oak, on the hill above Martvili: from the tenth century the seat of the bishops of Ch...
Mghvimevi Monastery
A nunnery cut into the cliff of the Kvirila valley on the eastern edge of Chiatura, founded in the second half of the thirteenth century by Rati Kakhaberidze, e...
Motsameta Monastery
The "place of the martyrs" on a rocky promontory in a bend of the Tskaltsitela, 6 kilometres from Kutaisi: the relics of David and Constantine Mkheidze, princes...
New Athos Monastery
A monastery built at the end of the nineteenth century by monks from Mount Athos at New Athos in Abkhazia, with the five-domed Cathedral of St Panteleimon, the...
Otkhara Cave Monastery
Caves cut in several tiers into a sheer cliff at the foot of the Bzyb range near the village of Otkhara, above the karst source of the Mchishta: by tradition a...
Sapara Monastery
A medieval monastery in a forested gorge near the village of Ghreli, 10 kilometres from Akhaltsikhe: one of the residences of the Jaqeli lords of Samtskhe and t...
Shemokmedi Monastery
The burial ground of the Gurielis and from the fifteenth century a metropolitan see, on a hill above the Bzhuzhi 7–8 kilometres from Ozurgeti: the thirteenth- t...
Skhalta Cathedral
A large medieval hall church in the village of Qinchauri in Khulo municipality, in the valley of the Skhalta river, 100 kilometres from Batumi: the centre of th...
Timotesubani Monastery
A monastery of the Mother of God in the village of Timotesubani in Borjomi municipality, 18 kilometres from Borjomi, on the right bank of the Gujaretistskali ri...
Ubisa Monastery
Gregory of Khandzta's ninth-century monastery of St George in the Dzirula valley beside the Tbilisi–Kutaisi road: with Simon Chkondideli's four-storey tower-pil...
Udabno Monastery of Guria
The "Vardzia of Guria": a church of St John the Baptist half cut into the rock and hermits' caves on the slope of Mount Amaghleba on the southern flank of the G...
Vanis Kvabebi
A rock-cut desert monastery in Aspindza municipality, on the right bank of the Mtkvari, 27 kilometres from Aspindza: a monument of the eighth–sixteenth centurie...
Zarzma Monastery
A medieval monastery in the village of Zarzma in Adigeni municipality, in the forested valley of the Kvabliani river, 8 kilometres from Adigeni and 30 kilometre...