Category: Culture & History
History, religion, arts and Georgian culture.
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Alaverdi Cathedral: Kakheti’s Towering Monastery and Its Wine
Alaverdi Cathedral in Kakheti is free to enter but enforces a strict dress code, and its monks still…
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Queen Tamar: Georgia’s Golden-Age Ruler
She ruled as “King,” pushed Georgia to its greatest size, and her grave is still lost. Here’s who…
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Gelati Monastery: Georgia’s Medieval Masterpiece
Gelati Monastery near Kutaisi sits mid-restoration in 2026: what’s actually open, the David the Builder tomb you walk…
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Qvevri: The 8,000-Year-Old Way Georgia Makes Wine
Qvevri winemaking buries clay amphorae to ferment wine on the skins: Georgia’s 8,000-year, UNESCO-listed method, and where to…
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Svetitskhoveli Cathedral: The Robe, the Pillar, the Dress Code
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, in depth: the robe-of-Christ legend, the life-giving pillar, the frescoes, the dress code, and…
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Gabriadze Theatre and Its Leaning Clock Tower
The Gabriadze Theatre is an adult puppet theatre in old Tbilisi. Here’s how to get tickets, plus the…
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The Mtatsminda Pantheon: Who Georgia Buries on Its Holy Mountain
The Mtatsminda Pantheon is Georgia’s hillside writers’ cemetery beside Mamadaviti church — free to enter, reached by the…
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A Short History of Tbilisi for Visitors
The history of Tbilisi, told through what still stands: the sulphur springs, Narikala, the 1795 sack that erased…
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Georgian Polyphonic Singing, and Where to Hear It
Georgian polyphonic singing uses three independent voices and intervals a piano cannot play. Why it sounds strange, and…
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Niko Pirosmani: Georgia’s Painter, and Where to See Him
Who Niko Pirosmani really was, why the million roses story is mostly myth, and exactly where to see…