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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 November 4, 1992. 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.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
42.26242.7161 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.	UNESCO sheet
42.91643.0112 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.	UNESCO sheet
41.84444.7163 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.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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