Spend your day on a historical tour of Dmanisi and Bolnisi - this is an incredible opportunity to discover the origins of the Georgian language and the first Europeans on Georgian territory.
Asureti is a German village in the Elizabeth Colony. In this village we will visit the German Church and here we will have a free wine tasting/ We will taste local delicious wines. Asureti is an interesting village located on the Koda - Tetriskaro road, about 45 km from Tbilisi in Georgia. The village was founded on November 19, 1818 by 72 German immigrant families under the name Elisabethal.
Bolnisi - we will visit the Georgian Museum of Numismatics and Artifacts. Bolnisi Museum is a model of a regional museum of the 21st century and a new ecosystem in general, where different segments such as science, culture, education and tourism coexist in one space. Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral< /strong> - known for its Georgian inscriptions. This is one of the oldest historical documents of the Georgian alphabet. This church is the first Georgian building to have a completion date on the front. The decorative scheme of Bolnisi Sioni was in the Sasanian style. The southern and central parts of the church are decorated with vine scrolls, arabesques and foliage motifs. Homogeneous bricks were used to build the southern facade of the building, which preserves the remains of late antiquity.
We will continue our tour with a visit to Dmanisi. The Early Paleolithic site of Dmanisi was discovered in 1983 under an abandoned medieval town. In the Middle Ages, Dmanisi was one of the outstanding cities of that time, located on the Great Silk Road. Dmanisi, where the oldest human skull in Europe was discovered (the hominin site is the earliest of its kind outside Africa, at 1.81 million years old), is in southern Georgia, in the Kvemo Kartli region. You can visit the museum to explore the archaeological excavations of a Bronze Age settlement and see the fossilized remains of the first human couple discovered in Europe, 1.8 million years old, whose names sound in Georgian: Zezva and Mzia!
Languages of the tour
- Russian
- English
Route
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Asureti
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Bolnisi
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Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral
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Dmanisi
Information
Choose comfortable shoes and clothes for the tour.
Take a headscarf for visiting the temple.
Free cancellation 72 hours before the start of the tour.
Attractions
Asureti (formerly Elisabethtal, Elizavettal) is a village in the Tetritskaro municipality of the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia. Founded in 1818 by evangelical Germans, immigrants from Württemberg, on 2,769 acres of land. Subsequently - the center of the Elisavettal (Asuret) volost. A church was built in 1871.
Near Dmanisi, 10 kilometers to the east, there are the ruins of the large medieval fortified city of Dmanisi. The area of the settlement — about 25 hectares. Excavations of the settlement have been carried out since 1936. The city in the VII—XII centuries. was the center of the Arab-Muslim local state of the Dumanus Emirate. The city was a particularly significant transit point on the caravan routes — the hub of one of the branches of the Great Silk Road; hence the Turkic name Bash-kechit.
The name of the city of Dumanus is mentioned in the text of one of the masterpieces of world art, in an example of oral folk art — Oguz folk epic "Kitabi-Dede-Korkut" ("The Book of My Grandfather Korkut").
The three-church basilica of the 6th—VII centuries, restored at the beginning of the 18th century, and the vestibule with a rich vestibule have been preserved. City walls, gates, and numerous buildings have been identified. A treasure of 25 gold and silver jewelry from the 12th and 13th centuries was found. The remains of the first Europeans were discovered on the territory of Dmanisi — Zezva and Mzia.
In the village of Bolnisi, near the city of the same name, there is the most ancient Christian temple in Georgia - Bolnisi Zion, built in the 5th century AD. e. An ancient inscription in Georgian has been preserved on the walls of the temple.