O make our city more attractive for tourists, we offer a short tourist route on how to see the amazing sights of those who come to Sagarejo, you can leave our city to see these sights.
Part One
The route starts in Tbilisi and goes through Rustavi to Gareji desert. The first stop is the multi-spring colorful mountains and reservoir. Here you will have to walk a bit to get closer to the colorful mountains. If you decide to go it cheap and risk the low bandwidth you are only fooling yourself. After the colorful mountains, the route will pass the nearby monasteries of the martyr and John the Baptist and head to the David-Gareji monastery. The monastery of the martyr consists of senaks carved into the rock and you will have to walk to see it. Just 1 km before the Davit-Gareji Monastery, to the right of the road, you will notice a fortress-like column, this is the Chichkhituri Monastery. After that you will go to Davit-Gareji Monastery, where the first part of the tour ends. Take a good look at this beautiful complex, relax and get ready to visit Gareja Saberi.
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The route from Davit-Gareji Monastery will pass through the village of Udabno and the old, abandoned road will lead to Gareji Monasteries. In this section, be sure to use a GPS device so as not to miss the route, as you will not see any hints on the way and sometimes you may not even be able to choose a path combined with nature. Gareji Saberebi is a rock-cut complex like the Tsamebuli Monastery, which stretches for several kilometers. Most of them are painted and have the shape of a church. Be careful though, the access paths to the cave do not meet any safety standards and an inexperienced person can damage something. Do not use high-heeled shoes, choose shoes with firm soles, difficult terrain.
Monastery of St. John the Baptist
Gareji Baptist Monastery - John the Baptist Monastery in Davitgareji Monastery Complex, 12 km west of David Lavra. Is a single complex carved into the rock. Founded in the VI-VII centuries by Lucian, a disciple of David Garejeli:
"By the order of his father David the wilderness was erected in the name of the Most High over St. John the Baptist."
The monastery is outlined in a rock mass composed of sandstones of marine origin. Of the buildings noteworthy is the unusually high and spacious main church. To the north there is a small storeroom, which is connected to the main hall by 2 arches. In front of the altar is the iconostasis of the second half of the XVIII century. To the south of the main church is another small church, which can be climbed by a ladder carved into the rock. At the entrance of the main church there is a tower and a bell tower built on the gate. Fragments of paintings of the first half of the XII century are preserved in the interior.
Transport:
On this route it is recommended to go in dry weather, as the road is not paved and in rainy weather only specially designed for mud, 4X4 cars if able to move without problems. In dry weather it is possible to pass this route by any car.
Davitgareja
The complex was founded in the first half of the VI century by one of the Assyrian fathers, David. He came with his disciple Lucian to the Gareja desert and settled in a small, natural cave. Thus was laid the foundation of the monastery, which in later centuries became known as the Lavra of David.
David Lavra Gareji was the center of monastic life. Over time, branches were added to it. Gareja is referred to in historical sources as the "Twelve Monasteries of the Gareja Mountains". "Kartlis Tskhovreba" tells us: During the reign of King Demetrius II, Sadun "created a good deed for the monasteries and the Glakhakis, during whose days of his life he gave Kalani and Mali to the Garejis of the Twelve Deserts and liberated the country of Garesji and served King Dimitri." Academician G. Chubinashvili could not avoid mentioning the Gareji monasteries as "twelve", but because the available materials allowed only seven monasteries to be localized, he, like other scholars, linked the "twelve" to the symbolic sacral number common in the Christian religion.
According to Vakhushti Bagrationi, “On Gareji Mountain there are monasteries inside the rock, Senakni, Trapezni, Palatni; Winters are warm, summers are cool. The baptist sits on the archimandrite, the chikhtitur sits on the leader, the archimandrite of Davit-Gareja sits, the leader on Bertubani. But there were more monasteries than to the bitter water, and the rites were full, and now there are five rites. "
Platon Ioseliani, in addition to the Lavra of David, lists eleven other monasteries: Easter Martyr, Bertubani, Dodo Rka, John the Baptist, Chichkhituri, Tetri-Senaki, Magazana or Cave, Kolagori, Painted, Verangareja and Pirukmar.
Vakhtang VI in one of his poems mentions David Lavra, Bertubani, Chichkhituri, Baptist, martyr, Dodo.
According to the territorial distribution of the pre-feudal era, the Gareji monasteries occupied the territory of Kambechani and later Kukheti in the southern border zone of the Kakheti Archdiocese. These monasteries are located in the Gareja Mountains, which run parallel to the Mtkvari, and in the Khriok cliffs in the lower reaches of the Iori Valley.
Later, a network of cave monastery complexes was gradually formed: Martyrs, Baptists, Chichkhituri, Tertersenaks, Dodos Rka, Desert, Easter Martyr, Bertubani, Cave, Collage, Large Boilers, Verangareja, Patara.
Gareja Martyrs Monastery
Tsamebuli Monastery - a small medieval rock church in the Davitgareji monastery complex. Located in a slightly elevated massif of a mountain ridge to the west of the Desert Monastery approx. 300 meters. To its south, in front of the gate, a brick gate was built under the leadership of King Archil of Kakheti (1664-1675). According to the plan, the east wall of the small square, flat-roofed church is without apse. Later in the middle you will set up a table built of poorly worked stone. The entire length of the north wall is about 130-140 cm high, which gives the impression of a sarcophagus - it contains the bones of tortured Bertha. The ceiling and walls of the church are painted, the main layer of which is close to the artistic monuments of the XI century.
Chichkhituri Monastery
Written sources and scientific literature about Chichkhituri are extremely scarce. Describing Gareji Mountain, Vakhushti Batonishvili says about the four monasteries operating here that Archimandrite sits in Davitgareja (or David's Lavra) and the Baptist, and in Chichkhituri and Bertubani - the leader.
There is a completely unique fresco painting in the monastery. Currently, the territory of the monastery, together with the Bertubani and Udabno monasteries, is disputed between Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Multi-source reservoir
Multi-Source Reservoir - The same multi-source lake, a reservoir in the area of the colorful Gareja Desert. Located in Kvemo Kartli, Gardabani district, 510 meters above sea level.
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