Mtsketa Cultural - Pilgrim Tour

Travel Company EDIA Travel Group offers you one day cultural-pilgrim tour to Mtsketa.

During the tour you will visit the sightseengs of the ancient town, Mtsketa. Mtsketa is not the only Georgian ancient capital, but also the birthplace of Georgian civilization. Mtskheta included UNESCO - World Heritage List, as a city-museum. During the tour, you will visit the Jvari Monastery,(Holy Cross Monastery),  Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, The Samtavro Convent and Armaztsikhe (Bagineti).

• Mtskheta - the ancient capital of Georgia, from where the Georgian civilization starts. Mtskheta and The Great Mtskheta area was inhabited as early as the early and middle Bronze Age (III-II millennium BC). Mtskheta was the cradle of Christianity in Georgia and the Christian religion in the 12th century.
• The Jvari Monastery (Holy Cross Monastery) - one of the great monuments of Georgian architecture, stands on top of the mountain, the rivers Mtkvari and Aragvi. Adoption of Christianity by King Mirian III- has a wooden cross erected in place of the worship of other Christian nations.
• Svetitskoveli Cathedral- he first wooden church was built in the time of King Mirian, the  Vakhtang Gorgasali built basilica of large stone church, at the end of V century. In the XI century here was built current large Svetitskoveli by an architect named Arsukidze led by Catholicos Melchizedek.
• Convent of the Samtavro - the current complex includes a small church, which is considered to be St. Nino's church; and the temple, which was built in XI century I half.
• Armaztsikhe (Bagineti) -BC IV.- AD VIII. Armaztsikhe site of the city's largest and one of the oldest cultural monuments in Georgia. It is similar to the Urartu and the Achaemenid Iran, Persepolis Fortresses. In Armaztsikhe was founded  three cultural layers. I- layers belong to BC. second- IV-III centuries. II layer BC. Sec. II - I centuries, while III- layer belongs to the AD. Sec. I- century capital of Mtskheta finish. In the inner castle there are founded bathrooms, ancient cellar, where there are one level lined pitchers.

The Route : 

09:00 - Departure from Tbilisi to Mtsketa. Meet location : Agmashenebeli Ave.

• Jvari Monastery (Holy Cross Monastery)
• Svetitskoveli Cathedral
• Samtavro Convent
• Armaztsikhe (Bagineti)

18:00 - End of tour, Return to Tbilisi.

The type of tour : cultura, pilgrim.

For additional detalised information, please call :

- Salome, 2 340-350 - Office.