This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Georgia.
Understand
The Georgia ratify it convention for the protection of the world, cultural and natural heritage the . The first protected sites were inscribed in 1994.
The Georgia has 3 sites registered with World Heritage, cultural.
The country has also submitted 15 sites to the tentative list, 12 cultural and 3 mixed.
Listing
The following sites are listed as World Heritage.
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1 Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery | Cultural | (iv) | Bagrati Cathedral, named after Bagrat III, the first king of unified Georgia, was built at the end of the Xe and at the start of XIe century. It was partly destroyed by the Turks in 1691. Its ruins stand in the center of the town of Kutaïsi. The Gelati monastery, whose main buildings were built from XIIe to XVIIe century, is a well-preserved complex, rich in mosaics and wall paintings. The cathedral and monastery represent the flourishing of medieval Georgian architecture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 Upper Svaneti | Cultural | (iv), (v) | Preserved by long isolation, the region of Haut Svaneti, in the Caucasus, offers the exceptional image of a mountain landscape with medieval-looking villages, still dominated by their tower-houses. The village of Chazhashi still has more than two hundred of these very original constructions intended at the same time for the habitation and the defense against the invaders which threatened the region. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 Historical Monuments of Mtskheta | Cultural | (iii), (iv) | The historic churches of Mtskheta, the former capital of the Kingdom of Georgia, are outstanding examples of medieval religious architecture in the Caucasus region. They bear witness to the high artistic and cultural level reached by this ancient kingdom. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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