Los SITIOS más CURIOSOS de GEORGIA | GEORGIA #9

A new day begins and I'm on my way and I'm leaving I'm leaving the capital Tbilisi is the capital it's over there I don't know if it will be seen now it 's quite early it's 7 in the morning but hey I like to get up early to take advantage of the hours of light and Also, the traffic is horrible in the city. Well, look, I have gotten rid of it and I have now come to a point that is just outside of Tbilisi called Chronicles of Georgia or The Chronicles of Georgia is a monument with a series of Pillars. I think there are a total of about 16 of between 30 and 35 meters that tell the story of Georgia and Jesus Christ. It was built in 1985 but it was not finished. So what you are going to see is an incomplete work but it is quite curious. Because first it impresses because it is huge because they are all Giant Pillars and it is all big So let's take a look let's go through it now that there is no one precisely on that roll of paper that is there Comment what I told you that this monument commemorates the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ and also the 3000th anniversary of the birth of the state of Georgia [Music] In other words, the truth is that it is a very curious monument, very interesting and impressive, or being in here you are like super immersed among all the columns And it reminds a little of the feeling when You are inside an Egyptian temple, that is, keeping your distance, but few people have the feeling that Pilar is like that, giants [Music] [Applause] Another good reason to come here if you have time is that on the one hand, this is like at an extreme. of the sea of ​​Tbilisi, which is like a giant lake that is next to the city and on the other you also see part of the city. So there is a place, that is, it is at a height. So it has very good views of the entire area [Applause ] Okay, well, having seen the monument, I'll tell you it's interesting, if you have time, it's not essential. But well, if you have time, it's a good point to have some views and see something curious. I'm going to go west little by little until the Black Sea. I will arrive today at the Black Sea but today I will drive quietly for four or five hours or so and along the way I will see some points. I want to visit a couple of towns and some curious places. If everything goes well and nothing happens, I invite you to watch the video and Let's see what we're finding out there [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] now stop in a very curious place and it's a place that has good everything in a beautiful natural environment all of this as you can see They are all mountains, everything is green everywhere you look, and right here, near a very Soviet-style town called Creature, there is a monument that is a giant monolith, a giant monolith about 40 meters high but that has the characteristic The place itself is called the Katsuki Column. It has the characteristic that at the top of that column it will take us there. Right now there is an Orthodox Church. The Church that currently exists has been rebuilt. It is not the original. But there were ruins of an Orthodox Church. orthodox monastery since the 7th and 9th century since then there have been archaeological remains that were found from the ruins of a monastery church that was on top of that monolith and it has always been highly revered in the area because in the end it is like a The site has always been seen as a sacred site because it is there in a place that is practically unreachable. In fact, it was not known how they could have built that church up there so long ago because it is completely vertical. When communism fell in 91, in 93, in fact, it came. There was an orthodox monk here and he wanted to go live upstairs, he built a small chapel at the top and he was there for more than 20 years. I was there from 93 or so until 2015, and at 60 something years old, the man is very difficult. Getting there If not by car because it is not even close to any city, there is no train, there is no bus, then you have to go with some type of private transport. It is a very very curious place, reminiscent of a place in Greece that you have surely seen in photos you have been to the meteora area this is much smaller in fact before only men could access the upper part women have never been able to but for five years the church at the state level prohibited it and only allows it to monks and people let him be here praying for a while and do some kind of good religious ritual [Music]