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Rabati Castle
The eastern end of this large, impressive castle (the first part inside the main entrance) includes a hotel, restaurant, tourism information centre and a couple of shops. Tickets are only needed to go up into the monumental part at the west end, with its mosque, citadel and museum.
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Ananuri Fortress
This fortress 66km north of Tbilisi is a classic example of beautiful old Georgian architecture in a beautiful location, enhanced by the Zhinvali Reservoir spreading out below. Within the fortress are two 17th-century churches, the larger of which, the Assumption Church, is covered
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Sataplia Nature Reserve
The star features of the 3.3-sq-km reserve, 9km northwest of Kutaisi, are a couple of dozen 120-million-year-old, fossilised dinosaur footprints (well displayed in a protective building), and an attractively lit 300m-long cave with a small underground river. The reserve is covered
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Ateni Sioni
This impressively ancient church has a beautiful setting above a bend of the pretty, grapevine-strewn Tana valley, 12km south of Gori. Ateni Sioni was built in the 7th century and modelled on Mtskheta’s Jvari Church. Beautiful reliefs of stags, a hunting scene and a knight were car
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Lagodekhi Protected Areas
This remote, 244-sq-km nature reserve climbs to heights of over 3000m in the Caucasus above the small town of Lagodekhi in eastern Kakheti near the Azerbaijan border. The reserve features deep river valleys, alpine lakes and some of Georgia’s best-preserved forests, and is home to
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Kolkheti National Park
This 285-sq-km national park encompasses three separate areas of coastline and wetlands north and southeast of Poti. It’s the southeastern area, focused on Lake Paliastomi, which is of most interest to visitors, thanks to its large bird population. More than 190 species have been s
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Tsminda Sameba Cathedral
The biggest symbol of the Georgian Orthodox churchs post-Soviet revival towers on Elia Hill above Avlabari. Tsminda Sameba, unmissable by night and day, was consecrated in 2004 after a decade of building. A massive and lavish expression of traditional Georgian architectural forms i
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Parliament Building
The six-storey-tall glass bubble of Georgias parliament building, opened in 2012, rises 4km west of the city centre, reachable by bus 4, 38 or 100 from the city centre (west end of Paliashvili). Controversial from the moment a WWII memorial was blown up in 2009 to make way for it,
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Nekresi Monastery
Nekresi’s early Georgian architecture and the views across the Alazani valley from its hillside-woodland site are marvellous. The monastery is 4km off the Kvareli road from a turning 10km past Gremi (Kvareli-bound marshrutky will drop you at the turn-off). Vehicles must park 1.5km
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Vani
The ancient city site, 40km southwest of Kutaisi, was one of the main centres of ancient Colchis, flourishing from the 8th to 1st centuries BC. Some speculate that it could have been the city of King Aeëtes, where Jason came in search of the Golden Fleece. The museum here, due to r
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Alaverdi Cathedral
At the beginning of the 11th century, when Georgia was entering its cultural and political golden age, King Kvirike of Kakheti had a majestic cathedral built – at 50m tall, Alaverdi Cathedral remained the tallest church in Georgia for nearly a millennium. Situated 20km northwest of
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Shavteli, Erekle II & Sioni
This string of narrow, traffic-free streets paralleling the river was the heaving commercial hub of the Old Town in medi-eval times. At the north end of Shavteli you’ll find the quirkiest building in Tbilisi, the rakishly leaning Clock Tower . Like something out of a fairy tale, it
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Cave City
This impressive and once enormous cave city, on the north bank of the Mtkvari, 10km east of Gori, is one of the oldest places of settlement in the Caucasus.
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Ali & Nino
The 7m-high, ethereally moving, metal sculpture Woman and Man , by Tamar Kvesitadze, is universally known as Ali & Nino after the protagonists of Kurban Said’s marvellous novel of that name (see it after dark).
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Market
Kutaisis indoor produce market is one of the largest, liveliest and most colourful in Georgia, full of cheese, walnuts, spices, herbs, fruit, vegetables, meat, churchkhela (strings of walnuts coated in grape-juice caramel), beans, wine, pickles and plenty more.
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Cable Car
The 2.6km-long cable car carries you up to a shopping/cafe/restaurant complex on Anuria Hill for panoramic views over the city – especially pretty after dark.
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Peace Bridge
The street Erekle II, lined with cafes and galleries, gives access to the Peace Bridge, an elegant glass-and-steel footbridge over the Mtkvari, designed by Italian Michele De Lucchi and opened in 2010 – one of the most eye-catching of the many love-it-or-hate-it avant-garde structu
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Anchiskhati Basilica
Tbilisi’s oldest surviving church is perhaps its loveliest. Built by King Gorgasali’s son Dachi in the 6th century, its a three-nave basilica whose weathered frescoes and walls of big stone blocks emphatically bespeak its age. The churchs name comes from the icon of Anchi Cathedral
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National Gallery
For most visitors the highlight here is the hall of wonderful canvases by Georgia’s best known painter Pirosmani (Niko Pirosmanashvili, 1862–1918), ranging from his celebrated animal and feast scenes to lesser-known portraits and rural-life canvases. There’s also a good selection o
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Evropas Moedani
Broad Europe Sq is surrounded by beautiful belle époque buildings – renovated survivors from Batumis original heyday plus new buildings in similar style. The squares musical fountains are a magnet for kids on hot summer evenings. Towering over it all is the Medea monument by sculpt
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