Gori-Uplistsikhe

Monastery of the Cross    One of the greatest monuments of Georgian architecture is a 6th century temple and monastery located on the top of a rocky mountain. The Jvari Monastery is included in the UNESCO list of world art treasures. On the south side of the main temple there is an entrance to the source of St. Nino.

Mtskheta  is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Georgia and the country's historical and spiritual center. According to legend and the historical chronicle "Kartlis Tskhovreba" ("The Life of Kartli"), the city was founded by Mtskhetos, the son of the ethnarch Kartlos. According to archaeological data, the area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and from the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, it began developing into a major urban center.

Capital of the Kingdom of Iberia (3rd Century BCE – 5th Century CE) Following the unification of the Kingdom of Kartli (Iberia) by King Parnavaz I, Mtskheta was declared the political and administrative center of the state.

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Svetitskhoveli is the main cathedral patriarchal church. For centuries it has been the center of Christian Georgia. Back in the 4th century, King Mirian III, who converted to Christianity, on the advice of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina, built the first wooden church in Georgia on the site of the modern temple. In the 11th century, on the site of the basilica, Catholicos of Georgia Melkizedek I erected temple. The current church in the name of the Twelve Apostles was built from 1010 to 1029.

Uplistsikhe    A city carved into the rock. From early antiquity (VI-IV centuries BC) Uplistsikhe was an urban settlement, which became a major urban center in the early Hellenistic period at the end of the 4th century. n. e. – III century BC

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