Kazbegi Day Trip
A guided day trip along the Georgian Military Highway to Stepantsminda, with stops at Ananuri Fortress, the Friendship Monument and Gergeti Trinity Church. Check the current itinerary and booking details on SkyGate.
Church · Gergeti, Stepantsminda, Kazbegi Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Gergeti Trinity Church
გერგეტის სამების ეკლესია · Tsminda Sameba · Holy Trinity Church near Gergeti
A walled 14th-century church on the hill above Stepantsminda, standing in front of Mount Kazbek, which rises to 5,054 metres behind it.
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42.6624, 44.6205
Why go
Two things justify the climb: the position, with Kazbek filling the view behind the church, and the building's past as a refuge. The church has two storeys, including a concealed upper floor where priests and villagers hid during invasions, and in dangerous periods of the Middle Ages the Cross of St Nino was kept here before it moved to Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi. Georgia's tourism administration notes that you can walk up from town or take a local taxi. For anyone staying in Stepantsminda it is the obvious first outing.
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Road last checked 2026-09-11.
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Guided tour · skygate
Kazbegi Day Trip
A guided day trip along the Georgian Military Highway to Stepantsminda, with stops at Ananuri Fortress, the Friendship Monument and Gergeti Trinity Church. Check the current itinerary and booking details on SkyGate.
Near Gergeti Trinity Church
Waterfall
Gveleti Waterfall
The larger of two waterfalls above Gveleti village near the Dariali gorge, a thirty-metre fall reached on foot after a short drive north from Stepantsminda.
5 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monument
Stone Heads of Sno
An open-air gallery of monumental stone portraits carved by self-taught sculptor Merab Piranishvili into granite boulders on a hillside at the edge of Sno village, Kazbegi Municipality, begun in 1984 and still growing today.
6 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Park
Kazbegi National Park
A national park on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus around Stepantsminda and Mount Kazbegi, in the Tergi basin, with alpine meadow, cliffs, glaciated peaks and forest.
7 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Geological feature
Truso Travertines
White and pinkish travertine fields still being shaped by carbonate-rich spring water on the floor of the Truso valley, protected as a natural monument about two kilometres from Keterisi.
18 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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