Georgia

Georgia's principal Black Sea resort and second-largest city, where a 19th-century European-style old town, grand belle époque mansions, and a dramatic seafront promenade coexist with a booming contemporary skyline.

The Holy Trinity Church perched at 2,170 metres on the slopes of Mount Kazbek, one of the highest peaks in the Caucasus, above the village of Stepantsminda — Georgia's most iconic mountain landscape.

A Roman fortified city and fortress on the Black Sea coast in Adjara, 15 km south of Batumi at the mouth of the Chorokhi River, with a history stretching from the 1st century CE to the medieval Georgian period.

An ancient fortress above Tbilisi's old town on a steep hill between the sulfur baths and botanical gardens, with roots going back to the 4th century and a recently rebuilt 13th-century church inside its walls.

A masterwork of the Early and High Middle Ages in Mtskheta, the ancient capital, housing the claimed mantle of Christ and recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

An ancient rock-hewn city carved into a high sandstone plateau on the left bank of the Mtkvari River, 10 km east of Gori — a unique combination of Anatolian, Iranian, and Caucasian rock-cut cultures spanning from the Iron Age to the medieval period.