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Introducing Georgia
With sublimely perched old churches, watchtowers and castles dotting its fantastic mountain scenery, Georgia has to be one of the most beautiful countries on earth. This is a place where (except in the drabber, Soviet-built sectors of some towns) the human hand has much enhanced that of nature. Finally putting post-Soviet internal strife and economic stagnation behind it, Georgia is now developing its tourism potential and making the full range of its attractions safely and readily accessible to travellers. Appealing accommodation for all budgets is becoming available across the country and opportunities for exploring by foot, horse or vehicle are expanding fast.
From outrageously beautiful towns of Svaneti and Kazbegi in the Caucasus mountains to Batumi, a fun-loving semitropical town on the Black Sea coastline, Georgia abounds in natural variety. Tbilisi, the capital and by far the biggest city, has the atmosphere of an age-old Eurasian crossroads, yet it’s also a 21st-century city with European-style nightclubs and eye-catching new architecture. Georgia’s deeply complicated history has given it a fascinating cocktail of influences from Turkey, Russia, Persia, Central Asia and beyond, with a wonderful heritage of architecture and art. But today Georgia looks to Europe for its future and is the most Western in atmosphere of the three Caucasus countries.
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Latest headlines for Georgia
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Russia 'shot down its own planes'
9 July 2009 9:37PM
A report in a Russian military journal claims that half the planes Russia lost in its war with Georgia were shot down by friendly fire.
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Georgia accused of drone flights
9 July 2009 4:36PM
Georgia condemns Russia's largest military exercises just over their border since their 2008 war as "pure provocation".
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US city car park floors collapse
29 June 2009 5:56PM
A section of a car park collapses near the centre of Atlanta city in the US state of Georgia, crushing vehicles.
