Fortress sights in Georgia
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Diklo
Diklo, 4km northeast of Shenakho, has an old fortress perched on a spectacular rock promontory.
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Shahtakhti Fortress
Beyond Mother Georgia you pass the ruins of the Shahtakhti (Shah's Throne) fortress, which housed an Arab observatory.
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Sukhumi Fort
Sukhumi Fort, on the seafront just west of ulitsa Sakharova, is a Russian rebuilding of a Turkish fort built on the site of a Roman one.
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Khertvisi Fortress
After the unremarkable town of Aspindza, you reach to the impressive 10th- to 14th-century Khertvisi Fortress, where the road to Akhalkalaki and Turkey diverges from the Varzia road. Inside the impressive walls is a square keep with rounded corners. According to legend, Queen Tamar held a competition to see who could build the best tower. A master stonemason and an apprentice were the contestants.
The apprentice outdid his master, who jumped like a bird from the tower and died impaled on the knife in his belt. From the eastern wall two tunnels lead down to the river: one served the castle's inhabitants for water, the other for communication.
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Narikala Fortress
Dominating the city skyline (until the TV tower came along, anyway), Narikala Fortress is an ancient symbol of Tbilisi’s defensive brilliance. The fortress walls date from various periods, the earliest from the 4th century, when it was a Persian citadel. The foundations of the towers and most of the present walls were built in the 8th century by the Arab emirs, whose palace was inside the fortress. Subsequently Georgians, Turks and Persians captured and patched up Narikala, but in 1827 a huge explosion of the Russian munitions stored here ruined not only the fortress but also the Church of St Nicholas inside it. The church was rebuilt in the 1990s with the help of…
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