Tbilisi Dzalisi | Uplistsikhe Cave Town

Overview

The ancient silk road that leads us to Uplistsikhe – the ancient rock-hewn cave town (6th c. B.C), which was an important point of the famous silk road and one of the most important pagan religious centres of pre-Christian Georgia

Itinerary

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  Tbilisi Dzalisi - Uplistsikhe Cave Town

  In the morning we will head by 4x4 to discover ancient pre Christian places of Georgia. At the first stage we will arrive to Dzalisi archaeological site. The site has been identified as the City of Dzalisa mentioned in the "Geographic Manual" by the Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemy in the second century CE. The most distinguished among the buildings are monument houses. An artistic floor mosaic found in Dzalisa's Roman-type bathrooms, n the frigidarium, 8-pointed star ornaments are depicted, and archaeologists found remnants of an ocean scene, with Tethys (a water goddess) surrounded by fishermen riding dolphins. Only the images of shells, dolphins and a fishnet remain preserved. Then we head along The ancient silk road that leads us to Uplistsikhe – the ancient rock-hewn cave town (6th c. B.C), which was an important point of the famous silk road and one of the most important pagan religious centres of pre-Christian Georgia. Here we’ll find well preserved, impressive ancient caves, In the evening, In the evening back to the hotel

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