Asia Occidental
Wine · Mountain · Ancient
Georgia has one of the world's oldest wine-making traditions, with evidence of viticulture dating back 8,000 years — the country uses a unique clay vessel called a qvevri, now UNESCO-listed, to ferment and age wine.
Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Kutaisi, Batumi, Rustavi — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Tbilisi's Old Town of wooden balconied houses overhanging narrow gorges above the Kura River, its Persian-era baths steaming from natural hot springs, and its 5th-century Narikala fortress overlooking an extraordinary mix of Orthodox churches, synagogues, and mosques creates one of the Caucasus's most atmospheric capitals — a city that has been destroyed and rebuilt 29 times throughout its 1,500-year history.
El idioma oficial es georgiano, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Georgia se contacta mediante el código +995. Georgians maintain one of the Caucasus's oldest Christian cultures — the Georgian Orthodox Church established in the 4th century AD uses an alphabet created specifically for Christianity, one of only 14 true alphabets in the world — producing a religious cultural identity that survived both Persian Zoroastrian, Ottoman Islamic, and Soviet atheist periods with its core practices intact.
Georgia comparte sus fronteras con Armenia, Turquía, Rusia, Azerbaiyán. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de
La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+04:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Georgian cuisine is the Caucasus's most celebrated table tradition — khinkali (pleated dumplings filled with spiced meat broth, eaten by biting off the top and drinking the juice before consuming the rest), khachapuri (cheese-filled bread in multiple regional forms), and the ritual supra feast governed by a toastmaster (tamada) who guides hours of toasts with Georgian polyphonic music.
Wrestling and rugby compete with football in Georgia's sporting identity — the Georgian rugby team's rise from obscurity to competitive European rugby in a decade represents one of international sport's most rapid national program developments, built on a warrior culture that translates naturally to the physicality of union rugby, while Georgian wrestlers have won Olympic medals since Soviet era.
The Greater Caucasus range along Georgia's northern border includes Shkhara at 5,201 metres — the highest peak entirely within Georgian territory — a range of permanent glaciers, alpine meadows, and medieval defensive towers built by the Svan people in valleys so isolated that their distinct language and customs survived for millennia in conditions of near-total cultural isolation.