Climbing a rocky cliff just across the Kura River from the city centre, the crenellated grey-stone walls of the 16th-century Ardahan Castle are extensive and fairly complete but not raised high enough to create an especially memorable scene. There is a park inside.
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The impressively huge frontage of this shattered 10th-century Georgian church stands at the back of a peaceful highland village accessed by a 10km series…
21.87 MILES
Founded by Georgians in the 10th century, this castle ruin retains a fairly well-preserved watch tower and curtain wall guarding a river crossing below…
22.49 MILES
Possibly of Urartian origin, this 'Devil's Castle' was for centuries a Georgian stronghold known as Qajis Tsikhe. It remains one of northeast Turkey's…
28.14 MILES
This abandoned ruin of an 11th-century Georgian church is relatively plain but exquisitely sited on a tree-shaded, grassy platform overlooking an emerald…