Gelati Monastery

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Best time to go: May–September
Budget: $
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Founded in 1106 in western Georgia, Gelati is a masterpiece of the kingdom's medieval golden age, a time of political might and prosperity spanning the 11th to 13th centuries. Its churches, faced in smoothly cut stone and decorated with blind arcading, sheltered a celebrated academy that made the monastery one of the foremost centres of learning in the medieval Orthodox world. UNESCO inscribed Gelati Monastery as a World Heritage Site in 1994.

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