All our History & culture guides for Georgia, in one place.
Cells cut into rock on a semi desert ridge two hours from Tbilisi, with painted caves above and a contested border along the top. What to know before going.
Most visitors land at Kutaisi and leave within the hour. The city has two of the finest monasteries in Georgia, a cave system nearby, and almost no crowds.
For a few weeks in autumn the wine country stops being a tasting room and becomes work, and visitors who turn up at the right moment get handed a bucket.
A script that looks like nothing else, a language related to nothing you know, and about six words that change how a fortnight goes.
One of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, a record of coexistence Georgians are genuinely proud of, and synagogues in places you would not think to look.
Tusheti, Khevsureti, Racha and a semi desert on the Azerbaijani border. Four regions that take real effort and are the reason people come back.
Hundreds of chambers cut into a rock face in southern Georgia in the twelfth century, with a frescoed church, and an earthquake that took the front wall off.
The town where Georgia became Christian, a cathedral holding the country's founding relic, and a sixth century church on a ridge above two rivers meeting.
Brick domes rising out of a hillside above hot sulfur springs, private rooms by the hour, and a scrub that removes a layer of you.