Keselo Fortress

hilltop cluster of towers above Omalo, built in the 1230s during the Mongol invasions

Samtavro Monastery 

complex with main 11th-century church and a small church attributed to the 4th century and associated with St. Nino’s life; relics of St. Gabriel Urgebadze

Nabadi

dense wool shepherd’s cloak, weather-shedding felt for mountain climate; worn across Georgian highlands

Sapara Monastery

10th-century monastery; cross-domed Church of St. Saba rebuilt after the 1275 earthquake; interior frescoes mainly from the late 13th–early 14th centuries

Korganov House

late–19th-century corner house on a sloping street, with stepped facades following the relief and shaping a characteristic Mtatsminda perspective

Nakashidze House from Adjara

built in the first half of the 19th century; two-story dwelling with stone ground floor and timber upper floor

Birtvisi Canyon, Cliffs and Fortress

volcanic canyons and tuff towers above the Algeti River with a medieval hilltop fortress

Georgian National Academy of Sciences

built 1949–1953 by Mikhail Chkhikvadze and Konstantine Chkheidze; initially designed for the Georgian Coal Trust

Sanagire Monastery

9th–10th-century three-aisled basilica of brick and cobblestone

Trialeti Petroglyphs

3rd–2nd-millennium BC rock engravings; 103 images of geometric, zoomorphic, anthropomorphic and other figures on volcanic basalt outcrops

Kalantarov House

Moorish Revival house built in 1908 by Ghazar Sarkisyan

Rkoni Monastery

medieval monastery complex; includes 7th-century basilica and 11th-century single-arch bridge

Sabaduri Forest

mixed deciduous forest in the Saguramo range

Grape-Harvesting Baskets

woven baskets used to collect and carry grape clusters; known in Georgian as gideli

Donor Portraits Stone Relief

10th-century carving of donors holding a building plan rather than a church model; exceptional in medieval church art

Telovani Church

8th–9th-century domed triconch church of the Holy Cross; 8th–9th-century frescoes fragments

Satyr Mascaron

stucco relief with goat-bearded profile on the street facade of the 1900 residential building by Aleksander Szymkiewicz

Mtatsminda Funicular Lower Station

built 1903–1905 funicular railway with a 501 m line to Mtatsminda; lower station rebuilt in the 2000s to its original design

Zestaponi Pioneers’ Palace

mid-20th-century House of Pioneers; now an art school

Batumi McDonald’s

completed 2013 by Giorgi Khmaladze; glazed cantilevered volume with restaurant, small garden, and fuel station below

Dartlo

highland Tushetian village; dry-stone houses with wooden balconies and defensive towers

Metekhi Church

13th-century cliff-edge church above the Mtkvari River

Icon of St. George

15th-century gold cloisonné icon with Georgian and Greek inscriptions

Buzika

small accordion for dance and song accompaniment

Artsivi Gorge

limestone canyon with adjacent forest; diverse birdlife and endemic flora

House on Newport Street

1880s corner two-story house with a street-side wooden balcony featuring Doric posts and trefoil arches

Skhalta Church

mid-13th-century single-nave church; interior painted in the late 14th century

Treli Horseman

15th–13th-century BC bronze figurine

The Telegraph Hotel

originally the 1970s Central Post and Telegraph Building; designed by Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili and Teimuraz Mikashavidze; reopened as a hotel in 2025

David Gareja Lavra

rock-cut monastery founded in the 6th century by St. David, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers