VIP Wine Tour

Georgia traditional country wine. These archaeological studies indicate long history, beginning with the "Bronze Age" of wine production in Georgia, and presumably the Latin word "vino" comes from the Georgian "Guinea". Georgia, known for its diverse climate and rich nature, gives life to 500 grape varieties known in the world 2000. Unusually grapes offer taste of more than 80 well-known names in Georgia produced wines. The traditional methods of winemaking in Georgia, such as how to store wine in a special earthen vessels "Kvevri" in the land, will be replicated and implemented worldwide. Georgia is famous for not just the creation of wines, but also the culture of the traditional feast, with a long election official toastmaster and a strictly defined sequence of toasts, speeches for the health.

Route:

Tbilisi, Mtskheta-western Georgia, East Georgia Tsinandali Gurjaani Sighnaghi. Tbilisi.

Day 1:

Arrival in Tbilisi. Meeting at the airport and hotel accommodation. Dinner. Tour the city at night. Tbilisi - "City of Light", a city of hospitality, friendship and love, stretched along the valley of the Kura River, between the mountain ranges of mountains and sv.Davida Mahat, located along the ancient ramparts of IV century Narikala. The old district of the city, picturesque cafes, antique shops, museums, contemporary exhibitions, "caravanserai" sparkling in the lights temples, bridges, and a grand cathedral Sameba, one of the highest in Europe.

Day 2:

Breakfast at 9.00.

10.00 On the way to Mtskheta - ancient capital of Georgia, Georgia, the cradle of Christianity, the historical site of St outreach Nina is a monastery Jvari, which is a continuation of the form sheer cliffs. The extraordinary beauty of the place, inspired by the great Russian writer Lermontov. The action of the poem "IDRC" develops here, "the confluence of rustling, arm in arm like two sisters, jet Aragvi and Hens, was a monastery.." The current monastery Jvari / cross / - gem of Georgian Christian architecture, the image is built many temples of Georgia, built in the VI century on the site erected St. Nina Cross. The central position in Mtskheta is the temple of Svetistshoveli / Living column / patriarchal cathedral church of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the former residence of the Catholicos - partriarha All Georgia. At the site of the temple was built the first church in Georgia, the king on the advice of St. Miriani. Equal to the Apostles by Nina. The church was a wooden structure with the support of the "life-giving pillar". The present church building XI century, in the name of the Twelve Apostles, is a great place to store holy Christian Heaton Lord. With this second Mtskheta called Jerusalem. Samtavro monastery is run by the Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi Ilia II. Monastery of St.. Nina was built in the IV century king Miriani in place, "ezhevichnika" holy dwelling place and outreach St. Nina "Ezhevichnik" repeatedly felled by the barbarians, and the newly emerging vnogv is miraculous. The church kept many relics: a part of the life-giving pillar, the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Iberia, the miraculous icon of St.. Nina, the tombs of the kings of the saints Mirian and Nana, the relics of Saint Shio Mgvimskogo, the tomb of his father Gabriel, exuding miraculous Miron, a place of numerous palomnichestva.V 2011 assumed his father's canonization of Saint Gabriel.

Monasteries and churches of Mtskheta are among the World Heritage List of UNESCO. Leisure and visit the restaurant "Salobie" located on the picturesque banks of the river Kura, with a traditional menu of beans (lobio), served in a clay pot, the national pie, mchadi (corn tortillas).

Visit Shio Mgvimskogo Monastery, located a few kilometers. of Mtskheta in a narrow gorge on the north shore r.Kury.Soglasno historical tradition first monastic community was founded by a monk Shio in the VI century one of the 13 Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia as missionaries of Christianity. The very first construction of the monastery church of St.. John the Baptist VI century, to the same period the monks dug a cave. Return to Tbilisi. The traditional dinner under the guidance of Toastmasters with wine tasting.

Day 3:

Breakfast at 9.00. Departure 10.00. Eastern Georgia, Kakheti - "country wine". Sagarejo, where the cathedral Ninotsminda, 575 g represents the summit early architectural monument of Christian architecture. Currently working female monastery. Gurjaani. Visit gurdzhanskogo winery tasting Aguna.Marani. Lunch time. Traditional Georgian cuisine. Next Sighnaghi. City - the fortress. Signagi region, a visit to a functioning convent Bodbe building which belongs to the IV-IX century. Church over the grave of St. Nino ravnoapostolskoy, prosvetitednitsy rasprostranitelnitsy and Christianity in Georgia, built the first Christian king of Georgia Miriani. According to the legend in a place where prayers of St. Nina appeared out of the ground a spring whose waters are therapeutic. To the convent is to wash bath. Near the south-east of the Monastery of Hirsi, based Assyrian Father Stephen Hirsanom in the VI century after Christ, pohoronnenom the monastery. Return to the hotel in Gurdzhani. Dinner. "Kakhetian feast," toastmaster.

Day 4:

Breakfast at 9.00. 10.00 departure for a tour. Visiting the Cathedral Kvelatsminda, unique dvuhkupolnaya church. Further inland in Kakheti. Tsinandali. Chavchavadze House Museum, which was visited by Pushkin, Griboyedov. The old winery, which works to this day, a visit to the cellar with wine collection, a unique collection of wines, the oldest of which «Polish Honey» dating from the 1814 year. The city of Telavi, along the river valley Alazani.

Cathedral of the XVI century monastery Akhali Shuamta and V - VII centuries Dzveli Shuamta on the walls of which inscriptions on ancient Georgian alphabet Asomtavruli. A few kilometers south of the monastery and the academy Ikalto Monastery, founded by Zeno of Assyria, father, turned to the academy in Arsene Iqaltoeli XI - XII centuries. According to the history of the tomb of Zeno and Arsene are located in the monastery.

Inspection of the Cathedral Alaverdi, built the monastery, founded in the first half of VI century Assyria Father Joseph of Alaverdi, whose tomb is located in the Cathedral. Lunch, wine tasting. Visit the Grammy, the capital of Kakheti in the Middle Ages, a masterpiece of medieval architecture - the Church of St.. Archangel. Nekresi. One of the oldest Christian churches in Georgia, a unique basilica of IV century, the monastery founded by Assyrian Father Abydos in the VI century, who was the Bishop's chair. The only temple in which sacrifice is a pig. The reason you open our experienced guide. Farewell dinner at a restaurant in Kakheti Gurdzhani.

Return to Tbilisi.

Day 5:

Breakfast 9.00. inspection of the Georgian capital Tbilisi - founded in V century AD by Vakhtang Gorgasali, king of Iberia. Tbilisi is the most important industrial, social and cultural center of Georgia. In addition to sacred sites guide you through the narrow streets of old town, after a visit that you leave on a picturesque bank of the river Mtkvari for the residence of the Catholicos of All Georgia Ilia II. Visit the exhibition souvenir. But it will be later, but for now check the oldest architectural monuments. Nearby is Anchiskhati (VIB) Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where he kept Anchiskhati icon. Metekhi (XII century) (first martyr of the Georgian burial - Queen Ranskoy Shushanik (V a).) Narikala-fortress complex of different ages on the Mount in the Old Tbilisi Vake. Built in the IV century, in the VII century called Shuris-Tsikhe. Zion is the so-called in honor of Mount Zion Temple main Tbilisi, consecrated in the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Stands on the banks of the Kura River in the historic city center. The Holy Mountain Mtatsminda. Dawit's mother-church (the place where the VI in the cell and chapel stood Garedzhiyskogo David - one of the thirteen Syrian Fathers who came to Georgia to spread Christianity. Kvashveti Church Church of St. George - the Orthodox church in the center of Tbilisi, located in front of the Parliament of Georgia on Rustaveli Avenue. According to legend and slander doubting monk Father David / Dawit's mother / woman was punished, give birth stone, which means - a quasi joint.

Visit the Russian Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky, in the churchyard is the grave of Archimandrite Vitaly famous miraculous deeds, Metropolitan Zinoviev (in the world - Zachariah) - Bishop of the Georgian Orthodox Church, which until the end of his life living in a cell at the temple of Alexander Nevskogo.V cell in the present prozhiaet Archimandrite George, beloved and revered by his flock. Under the leadership of Archimandrite George day after the service in the church held the meal at which there are members of socially vulnerable pastvy.Trapezy held by the church for his father pozhertvovaniy.Lyubov George and his life to strengthening the faith of the flock and her desire to live according to Christian truths. Famed for his studies of history of religion Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin) conducts worship in the cathedral. Among the spirit children of the lord Zenobia was the future Patriarch Ilia II, head of the Georgian Church and the "Father of the Nation." Tsminda Sameba-Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi - the main cathedral of the Georgian Orthodox Church, located in Tbilisi, on the hill of St. Elijah (the left bank of the Kura). Inside the cathedral, 13 thrones lower church - after the Annunciation, stands apart zvonnitsa.Vysota upper church is 105.5 meters. Dinner in Tbilisi under the guidance of Toastmasters, tasting of traditional Georgian wines.

Day 6:

Breakfast at 8:00 am.

At the discretion of our guests visit the Cathedral "Sameba. 'Presence at the morning worship service .13.00 visit the tasting room, wine tasting in the" House Wine "and purchase wines at discounted prices. At the request of visiting trade fairs in the inner city, Dry Bridge, where you can buy souvenirs, traditional Georgian wine accessories.

Check out. The airport.

The tour price of $ 1,000 to $ 2,000

rates of 3.4, 5-star hotels

Menu and place of residence additionally agreed.

The tour lasts 6 days 5 nights.

Maintenance includes:

- Arrival and departure at the airport,

- Guide services,

- Transfer during the tour, (Mercedes SUVs Nammer, etc.)

- Internal security service, mobile communications by radio throughout Georgia

- Cultural events,

- Accommodation,

- Breakfast at the hotel

- The presence of a toastmaster restaurant feasts

- Guide - interpreter

- Ceremony, wine tasting,

- Insurance.

In the service does not include:

 flights to Georgia and back.

Inclusion in the program as agreed:

- Trips and programs for horses and chaise;

- Participation in our events ensembles "Dance and Song," Philharmonic;

- During the trip accompanied by a photograph of the manufacture of CDs marshruta.prozhivanie 3.4-, 5-star hotels