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Exploring Georgia

Explore Georgia

Every destination, hidden gem and place on the map above has its own page. Georgia has 15 destinations, 121 places to see, and 3 hidden gems. The food and culture notes below are context XTOUR has verified, not places with their own pages.

Food & culture in Georgia

Taste

Food and drink this place is known for.

ChurchkhelaFood · National
A tradition found across the country, not tied to one exact place. Nuts on a string, dipped several times in tatara — grape juice condensed and boiled with flour — and made after the grape harvest in every region. The Kakhetian version uses walnut halves; in Guria, Samegrelo and Imereti, hazelnuts and corn flour are more usual.
KhinkaliFood · National
Associated with Pshavi and Tusheti. Shown here for context, not as an exact location on the map. Traditional Georgian dumplings. Georgia's National Tourism Administration names the mountain regions of Pshavi and Tusheti as their homeland, from where khinkali spread to the rest of the country.
Grapes and winegrowingDrink · Regional
Associated with Kakheti. Shown here for context, not as an exact location on the map. Georgia's National Wine Agency calls Kakheti the country's most important winemaking region; its most popular grape varieties include Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, Kakhuri Mtsvane and Khikhvi. The agency lists other viticulture regions too — Kartli, Imereti, Racha, Meskheti and the Black Sea coastal zone — so this marks Kakheti's prominence, not the only place vines grow.
Adjarian khachapuriFood · Regional
Associated with Adjara. Shown here for context, not as an exact location on the map. Khachapuri varieties are associated with different regions of Georgia. This one is named after Adjara, the Black Sea coastal region it comes from.

Understand

Traditions and landscapes that explain the place.

QvevriTradition · National
A tradition found across the country, not tied to one exact place. An egg-shaped earthenware vessel for making, ageing and storing wine. UNESCO inscribed the ancient Georgian qvevri wine-making method on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013, noting that it is practised throughout Georgia, particularly in village communities.
Svan towersCultural landscape · Regional
Associated with Upper Svaneti. Shown here for context, not as an exact location on the map. UNESCO describes Upper Svaneti as an exceptional mountain landscape of medieval villages and defensive tower-houses, kept intact by the region's long isolation — the village of Chazhashi alone still has more than 200 of them. A survey of the surrounding towers found the great majority are unnamed, with no individually documented identity, so this illustration shows the landscape rather than pointing at any single one.

Bring home

Crafts and products to take home — linked to a shop only where a source names one.

PotteryCraft · Regional
Associated with Shrosha, Imereti. Shown here for context, not as an exact location on the map. Ceramics are made widely across Georgia. In western Georgia you can still find stalls of artistic pottery near Shrosha, a village Imereti's destination management organization describes as distinguished by its pottery making. The decoration in this illustration is not a documented Shrosha design.Sold at Shrosha Pottery Market