Friday, December 17, 2010
Video from Venice
Traveling for holidays to Venice it was just one small video that I've captured in one of the Venice canals. You can listen traditional Italian music that echoed from the walls of narrow canals.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Caucasus, Georgia - the Photo Gallery
As you know the northern border of Georgia is Caucasian mountains. Traveling for holidays to Georgia you could not leave this part of the country without interest. To assure all of you in this suggestion I put here just couple of photos.
panoramic view
Mount Kazbek (5033 m = 16.512 ft) (Georgian: ყაზბეგი (or მყინვარწვერი), Ossetic: Сæна, Russian: Казбек, Chechen: Башлам), is a dormantstratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus located on the border of Kazbegi District of Georgia and North Ossetia[3]. It is the third highest mountain in Georgia (after Mount Shkhara and Janga) and the seventh highest peak in the Caucasus Mountains. The summit lies directly to the west of the town of Stepantsminda and is the most prominent geographic feature of the area. The name in Georgian, Mkinvartsveri, translates to "glacier" or "Ice Mountain". The Vainakh name Bashlam translated as Molten Mount.
On the photo you can mention one of the most beautiful architectural buildings in Georgia the Trinity Church of Georgeti
...and again mount Kazbeg early in the morning...
The panoramic view of Gergeti Trinity Church.
...and clouds, mounts, church...
panoramic view
Mount Kazbek (5033 m = 16.512 ft) (Georgian: ყაზბეგი (or მყინვარწვერი), Ossetic: Сæна, Russian: Казбек, Chechen: Башлам), is a dormantstratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus located on the border of Kazbegi District of Georgia and North Ossetia[3]. It is the third highest mountain in Georgia (after Mount Shkhara and Janga) and the seventh highest peak in the Caucasus Mountains. The summit lies directly to the west of the town of Stepantsminda and is the most prominent geographic feature of the area. The name in Georgian, Mkinvartsveri, translates to "glacier" or "Ice Mountain". The Vainakh name Bashlam translated as Molten Mount.
On the photo you can mention one of the most beautiful architectural buildings in Georgia the Trinity Church of Georgeti
...and again mount Kazbeg early in the morning...
The panoramic view of Gergeti Trinity Church.
...and clouds, mounts, church...
Shio-Mgvime Monastery
To spend your holidays in Georgia (Europe, Caucasus) is quite interesting thing while traveling around the country you can find sign of Ancient Greeks (golden fleece) and Romans. First Christianity (since beginning of 4th century) and Iberia and old Colchis.
Shio-Mgvime charch and monastery complex is located nearby from ancient Georgian capital Mtskheta.The first monastery community at this place was founded by the 6th-century monk Shio, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia as Christian missionaries.
Shio-Mgvime quickly turned into the largest monastic community in Georgia and by the end of the 6th century it was populated by as many as 2,000 monks. It became a vibrant center of cultural and religious activities and remained under the personal patronage of Catholicoi of Georgia. David IV "the Builder" (1089-1125) made it a royal domain and dictated regulations (typicon) for the monastery (1123). The monastery was somewhat altered in the 11th and 18th centuries, but has largely retained its original architecture.
The earliest building – the Monastery of St. John the Baptist – a cruciform church, very plain and strict in its design, indeed dates to that time, c. 560s-580s, and the caves curved by monks are still visible around the monastery and along the road leading to the complex.
The Upper Church (zemo eklesia) named after the Theotokos is a central part of the Shio-Mgvime complex constructed at the verge of the 12th century at the behest of King David IV of Georgia. Initially a domed church, it was subsequently destroyed by a foreign invasion and restored, in 1678, as a basilica. A refectory was built between the 12th and 17th centuries and directly communicates with the Cave of St. Shio. A 12th-century small chapel adorned with medieval murals stands separately on a nearby hill.
Shio-Mgvime quickly turned into the largest monastic community in Georgia and by the end of the 6th century it was populated by as many as 2,000 monks. It became a vibrant center of cultural and religious activities and remained under the personal patronage of Catholicoi of Georgia. David IV "the Builder" (1089-1125) made it a royal domain and dictated regulations (typicon) for the monastery (1123).
The downfall of the medieval Georgian kingdom and incessant foreign invasions resulted in the decline of the monastery. It saw a relative revival when the Georgian king George VIII (r. 1446-1465) granted Shio-Mgvime and its lands to the noble family of Zevdginidze-Amilakhvari to whom the monastery served as a familial burial ground up to the 1810s.
Here was the first cave where St. Shio stayed for his first night when he arrived to this area.
The monastery complex is just 30 km away from Tbilisi. It takes only 30 minutes traveling time to reach this picturesque place of now day Georgia.
Shio-Mgvime charch and monastery complex is located nearby from ancient Georgian capital Mtskheta.The first monastery community at this place was founded by the 6th-century monk Shio, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia as Christian missionaries.
Shio-Mgvime quickly turned into the largest monastic community in Georgia and by the end of the 6th century it was populated by as many as 2,000 monks. It became a vibrant center of cultural and religious activities and remained under the personal patronage of Catholicoi of Georgia. David IV "the Builder" (1089-1125) made it a royal domain and dictated regulations (typicon) for the monastery (1123). The monastery was somewhat altered in the 11th and 18th centuries, but has largely retained its original architecture.
The Upper Church (zemo eklesia) named after the Theotokos is a central part of the Shio-Mgvime complex constructed at the verge of the 12th century at the behest of King David IV of Georgia. Initially a domed church, it was subsequently destroyed by a foreign invasion and restored, in 1678, as a basilica. A refectory was built between the 12th and 17th centuries and directly communicates with the Cave of St. Shio. A 12th-century small chapel adorned with medieval murals stands separately on a nearby hill.
The downfall of the medieval Georgian kingdom and incessant foreign invasions resulted in the decline of the monastery. It saw a relative revival when the Georgian king George VIII (r. 1446-1465) granted Shio-Mgvime and its lands to the noble family of Zevdginidze-Amilakhvari to whom the monastery served as a familial burial ground up to the 1810s.
The monastery complex is just 30 km away from Tbilisi. It takes only 30 minutes traveling time to reach this picturesque place of now day Georgia.
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