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Georgia-kharagauli Old Kharagauli

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Georgia-kharagauli Old Kharagauli

is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea level. It was founded as a railway station in the 1870s, when Poti-Tbilisi permanent way was built. So kharagauli assumed an administrative, later-an economic function. The most beautiful is its west entrance. In kandeshi rock beautiful and narrow gorge the river Chkherimena flows. The most attractive for foreigners are two big holes on the right bank of the river. Here a primitive man's upper Paleolithic era man's natural shelter is, called "the giant's hole". A bit aloof, on the left bank, there are giants statues, so the place is called "the giants" due to those beautiful holes. Near the place, up the Chkherimela river gorge there is an old fortress ruins. It is a typical construction of the Middle Ages, mentioned sometimes as Khandi, or kharagauli fortress.

It was in Kharagauli fortress that the king Vakhtang VI got married.

There is a district called "small kharagauli" there, people settled here first, later - on the borough territory. On its mountain there are tombs of 14th - 11th centuries BC. There was a Jesus church, a basilica construction on the cemetery territory, now it is ruined.

Beautiful nature, pleasant people, hospitality tradition become muse for many foreigners. The Georgian "king of poets" Galaction Tabidze dedicated a poem to Kharagauli.

Kharagauli

Housing in the Upper Paleolithic. Is dated by 35 thousand years ago.

Davis hole caves in Kharagauli

Chkheri castle Vakhani castle

Railway Bridge(1886-1890)

Nunisi monastery(IX-X centuries) Ubisi monastery(Ixcentury)

House in kharagauli

Residential Building (1945) Railway tunnel(1886-1890)