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The Georgian Orthodox church, dating from the 8th to 10th centuries, is a hall-shaped structure made of carefully carved stone blocks. Parts of the eastern and southern walls have been preserved from the original structure. Basalt stones of various sizes were used in the restoration of the church in the late Middle Ages. In the 20th century, the church received a reinforced concrete roof. Source: http://wikimapia.org/35721945/ka/

Grey-brown, rounded rocks form many chains of hills and cliffs, canyons and ravines, constantly going up and down. The rock is a smooth, hard sand-gravel-marl; somewhat similar to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, but not as sandy, but with larger stones/pebbles in it; partly karstified. Some climbers tried their hand at the vertical walls (some of these walls were covered in ivy from top to bottom). A good starting point would actually be Tbisi; but the marshrutka sets off a kilometer earlier. In the interior of the area there are only small paths; all are unmarked, sometimes difficult to find under the bushes and grass, and the castle can therefore only be found by those in the know. Streams appear and disappear.

This is also a monastery founded by a student of Davit Garejali. A watchtower (with azure blue stones - Persian??) stands guard on the mountain ridge, visible from afar. Below it, caves have been dug into the edge of the sandstone rock. The church, with its rather damaged paintings from the 18th century (the communists had detonated a bomb inside to destroy everything, the monk said), has an enormously high interior. I didn't see any icons from the 12th century. You can only get to the monastery with a four-wheel drive jeep. Or walk from the road...

Ruin of a house in the middle of the forest (mill??), collapsed, with hewn stones (tombstones?) in front of it.

Unfortunately the link above is incorrect, here is the corrected link: https://www.georgia-insight.eu/reisen/tagestour-tedschissi-megalithen The two churches are among the most exciting discoveries in Georgia. The walk to the upper church is recommended in summer (in spring the path is often very muddy).

Rustavi is a post-war city foundation around the newly built steelworks. The city reflects the concepts from the Stalinist era in the factory buildings and above all in the city layout

From the town hall you can walk across the central strip park to the steelworks. It is very worthwhile: about the 2nd half of the way is a very beautiful Armenian park. At the steelworks (buses and kiosks are also there) you can experience Stalinist splendor - the actual working class was housed in the "new" town, often in communal houses with communal apartments. Functionaries, managerial workers, intellectuals lived in the "old" town, which, by the way, was built by German prisoners of war in forced labor when Rustavi was founded.

The Svanetic architectural elements around Rustavi are related to a resettlement operation following a natural disaster in 1987. https://chaikhana.media/en/stories/744/from-the-mountains-to-the-desert-the-svan-migration A short stop is worthwhile here, because often one of the residents is quite photogenic. The Little Owl. And for bird watchers looking for rock sparrows anyway.