The grace of the ancient monasteries

This morning we will go to the place where at the foot of the mountain is the confluence of two rivers - Kura and Aragvi. Pushkin and Lermontov sang this area in their poems. After leaving the car in the parking lot, we'll go up to Jvari Monastery.
According to legend, here St. Nina, the Enlightener of Iberia, erected a cross on the mountain. At first there was a small church on the site of the erected cross, and since the seventh century the monastery Jvari, as we see it now. The architecture of Georgian churches is unusual: ascetic, it repeats the appearance of the strict mountains around. It's like time has stopped here. Quiet, calm and grateful. And I don't want to leave. Since Jvari is on the mountain, you can see him from anywhere in Mtskheta.

Then the winding mountain road led us to the other side of the bend of the river, to Mtskheta, to Svetitskhoveli Cathedral. It's built of cramped granite, with frescoes inside. It was built in 1029, and before that, on the site of the burial of the Lord's Risa, there was a small church of the 4th century. The place and the cathedral itself are wonderful, as well as the feeling of being there.