Craft market · Zestaponi Municipality, Imereti
Shrosha Pottery Market
შროშა · Bogiri
The roadside market of Shrosha's potters, now trading from purpose-built areas on both sides of the new East–West motorway near the village, selling hand-thrown clay pots, jugs and qvevri.
Where it is
42.1093, 43.1781
Why go
Shrosha makes pots. Nearly every household in the village depends on clay dug locally, shaped by hand and fired overnight in brick kilns, and the output runs from cooking pots and jugs to qvevri, the buried vessels Georgian wine is fermented in. For about seventy years the families sold their work from a long row of stalls beside the old Tbilisi–Kutaisi road, a market locals called Bogiri. When the new motorway through the Rikoti section diverted the traffic, the state built trading areas for the potters on both sides of the new road near the village, and vendors moved in. How many stalls are trading on a given day, and at what hours, is not confirmed here.
Getting there
The market sits beside the E60 East–West motorway near Shrosha, in Zestaponi municipality. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, trading areas for local vendors were built on both sides of the new road near the village, so the stop can be made in either direction of travel. OpenStreetMap, surveyed in September 2025, shows each area served by a short lane that leaves and rejoins the motorway. XTOUR has not confirmed trading hours or how many stalls are open on a given day.
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