Khertvisi Fortress, Georgia
Not far from the cave city of Vardzia on the mountain towering over road from Akhalkalaki to Akhaltsikhe there is a fortress Khertvisi (10 th -11 th centuries) which has survived I perfect condition.
Khertvisi is one of the most ancient fortresses in Georgia. Even though the date of its construction date is unknown, there is a proven fact of its standing on the Great Silk Road. It isamazing but despite all millennia it has survived in its original state. The mountain, on which the fortress is standing, wonderfully combines history and the present. At the foot of the mountain there stand small rural houses of local residents; and hundreds meters above them the impregnable wall of fortress is towering.
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