Category: Discovery

Discovery

Kvevri

From ancient times Georgia has been known as a country of grapes and wine. Traditional Georgian wine is hardly imaginable without a “Kvevri”. It is large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage, and aging of traditional Georgian wine. Resembling large, egg-shaped amphorae without handles, they are either buried below ground or set into the …

Artistic places, Discovery, Historical Places

Art-Villa Garikula

Garikula is one of many villages in Shida Kartli’s Kaspi region, an area with a history that reaches as far back as the Stone Age. During medieval times the region was the epicenter of conflict between the Ottomans, Persians, and Georgians. Although the Bolsheviks blew up most of the old palaces of Georgian noble families, …