Katskhi Pillar

Imereti · Georgia

Katskhi Pillar, Georgia
Photo: Aleksey Muhranoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
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not-accessible
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A slender natural limestone monolith rising about forty metres above the valley floor, topped by a small church and hermit's cell. For centuries a monk lived in solitude at its summit, reachable only by a long iron ladder.

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