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Mtskheta – Gori - Uplistsikhe
10:00 - Excursion to Gori and Mtskheta.
15:00 – Lunchtime.
Back to Tbilisi.
Excursion to the ancient capital of Georgia – Mtskheta and Gori.
Mtskheta – the most ancient, the city, the first capital of Georgia, a shower of this amazing country. Here you will have an opportunity to get acquainted with the Cathedral "Svetitskhoveli" (XI in). He, cathedral of 12 apostles. In his basis Heaton Gospoden is based. Thanks to this shrine Mtskheta call "the second Jerusalem".
We will visit Samtavriysky convent of St. Nino. Here the St. King Mirian and the St. queen Nana who have adopted Christianity together with all Georgia in 324 g are based.
We will rise in Jvari Monastery (V in) from where the fine panorama of the ancient capital opens (in Jerusalem there is a church with the same name). On a legend, this temple has been erected over the stub of that cedar exhaling fragrant oil (Miro) under which the educator of Georgia Saint Nino prayed.
14:00 A lunch at the Georgian restaurant
Then continue the tour to the city of Gori.
Gori is located at the confluence of the Kura and Liakhi rivers in the picturesque Kartli Valley. From the south and west the city is surrounded by picturesque mountains. Despite the fact that in historical sources the city has been known since the VI century, the name of Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as the "Father of the Peoples" of Comrade Stalin, who led the Soviet empire from 1925 to 1953, earned him worldwide fame. By the way, fellow countrymen of the great dictator
Revere and respect him. Even the main street is still named in his honor - Stalin's avenue. And the main attractions of the town are the Stalin House-Museum, built in the form of a marble sarcophagus and a huge bronze sculpture of Stalin, one of the few preserved in the world (on the main square of Gori).
At 10 km from Gori, on the bank of the Mtkvari River, one of the rarest monuments in the world is the ancient city-fortress Uplistsikhe, carved into the volcanic rocks of the Kvernaki Range. It is first mentioned in the annals of the first century. BC. E., and its heyday reached by the IX-X century.
Uplistsikhe was a cult temple city, a major pagan center until Georgia adopted Christianity (IV century). There were all sorts of pagan rituals, sacrifices were made. Then here began to build Christian churches.
In the XIII century. As a result of the devastating invasion of Chingiz-Khan's hordes to Georgia, Uplistsikhe finally fell.
In the 19th century, Uplistsikhe was completely covered with a layer of earth and sand. It took a lot of work and extraordinary efforts of many specialists to excavate, clear, Strengthening, restoration and study of this outstanding monument in the history of Georgian culture, entered in the fund for the protection of UNESCO historical monuments.
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