Samegrelo (Martvili - Okatse canyon)

♦ Samegrelo

Two Day Tour

 First Day
▪ Nokalakevi - a place where there was a city; etc.- Grech. Archaos polis - old city - the city of fort in West Georgia, in the municipality of Senaki, the capital of Lazica, place the legendary city Aya, where legend came Argonaut. According to historical chronicles, the city was founded Eristavi Lazica Quji in III century N. E. Tsikhe Goji (Fortress Goji ) was capital of Lazica in IV-VIII centuries of our era. The second phase of the development of the settlement began in the XVI-eighteenth centuries, when the city came the residence of the keeper Odishi.
▪ Martvili Canyon - or the canyon Gachedili or Martvilian canyons - canyon near the town of Martvili, the main attraction Martvilian area and the top tourist attraction Samegrelo. I got a nice canyon for Georgia property - it's always cold. Even if the "upstairs" + 40, right in the canyon are much colder and the water so that it is no fun. This is the canyon have in common with the waterfall Kinchkha where good too in the hot season.
▪ Canyon Okatse - the largest tourist attraction khoni area. Represents Three kilometers Canyon about 50 metres deep. Until the middle of the canyon is now paving the metal road.
Monastery Chkondidi - Vintage Megrelian VII century monastery near the town of Martvili. The first and main monastery in Samegrelo. The name is derived from the word "Megrelian Chkoni" - Oak. I mean, it's "Big Oak" - Chkoni-Didi. The first temple was built it was in the wrong era and was a popular in those years tetraconch.
▪ Monastery Chkondidi - Vintage Mingrelian vii century monastery near the town of martvili. The first and main monastery in samegrelo. The name is derived from the word "megrelʹskogo chkoni" - Oak. I mean, it's "Big Oak" - Chkoni-Didi. The first temple was built it was in the wrong era and was a popular in those years.
▪ Dadiani Palace in Salkhino (Martvili District) Summer residence.
▪ Martvili Museum.
▪ Wine tasting.
▪ The night in a hotel or house in village. Second Day
▪ Anaklia - Resort on the black sea coast.
▪ Dadiani Palace is the residence of Megrelian rulers from kind of Dadiani in Georgian city of Zugdidi. The current palace built in the 1873-78's. For the princess Catherine Dadiani. In the design of the architect Edgar J. Rice Bow Vorontsov's Palace in alupka . the second palace built in the 1880's. For her son, the last megrelian ruler, on the draft, Leonid Vasilyev.
Following the resignation of Nicholas Dadiani from the throne (1866) his sister Salome went with her mother in Paris, where on 18 may 1868 year. Married the grandson of Marshal Murat - Prince Asil Murat, who brought several relics of Bonapartists to Mingrelia, including one of the three posthumous masks of Napoleon. Now it is exhibited in the historical museum, which occupies part of the palace complex. The Museum was founded on the initiative of the keeper Samegrelo David Dadiani during 1849, based on the items from the warehouse keeper's treasures and Georgian Antiquities. Today at the museum collected until 41000 exhibits - rare specimens of the Georgian National Culture. And among them is the inventory treasure (1TH MILLENNIUM BC) Golden Ancient Mask, an icon of the mother of the Georgian Queen Tamara (12 in. ), Antiquities, caught in Georgia after the fall of Constantinople, military weapons, the European middle ages, works of painting and graphic Western European Masters.
Around the palace of the sprawling extensive Zugdidi botanical garden, who broke with the assistance of the discharged from Europe gardeners mother Salome, Lagno Chavchavadze-Dadiani - baby sister Nina Griboedov. Garden Surface area is 26,4 hectares.
▪ Zugdidi Botanical Garden - the botanical garden of academy of sciences of Georgia in Zugdidi, Georgia, samegrelo. Botanical Garden was established on the basis of the palace garden Dadiani . Garden got his today's appearance in the last of the Samegrelo, with Davide Dadiani, owing to its location, Zugdidi garden is one of the best places to study the subtropical plants.

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