Photogallery of pictures taken during journeys to historical sites of Georgia - Church of Gremi.
Gremi is a 16th-century architectural monument – the royal citadel and the Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The complex is what has survived from the once flourishing town of Gremi and is located east of the present-day village of the same name, 175 kilometers east of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
Gremi was the capital of the Kingdom of Kakheti in the 16th and 17th centuries. Founded by Levan of Kakheti, it functioned as a lively trading town on the Silk Road and royal residence until being razed to the ground by the armies of Shah Abbas I of Persia in 1615.
The town never regained its past prosperity and the kings of Kakheti transferred their capital to Telavi in the mid-17th century.
The Archangels’ Church complex is located on a hill and composed of the Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel itself, a three-story castle, a bell tower and a wine cellar. It is encircled by a wall secured by embrasures, turrets and towers. Remains of the secret tunnel leading to the Ints’obi River have also survived.
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