Gremi
A 16th century royal citadel and the Church of the Archangels on a hill near Kvareli, about 115 km east of Tbilisi. They are what is left of a once busy town that served as the capital of the kingdom of Kakheti.
- Where
- Kvareli, Kakheti, Georgia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 42.0136, 45.6703
Get the Gremi stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Gremi. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Kakheti volume with your photos and a note.
Near Gremi
Nekresi Monastery 9.3 km
A monastery founded in the 6th century and still in use, high in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus between Kvareli and Shilda. The site is also an archaeological one, and it looks out over the Alazani Valley.
Alaverdi Monastery 25 km
A monastery in the Alazani Valley whose Cathedral of St George was built in the 11th century by Kvirike III of Kakheti, on the site of an older church. It counts among the four great cathedrals of Georgian Orthodoxy, and the monks still make wine here.
Ikalto Monastery 25 km
A monastery complex near the village of Iqalto, about 10 km west of Telavi in the Kakheti wine country. Beside its churches stand the ruins of the Ikalto Academy, a medieval school of learning.
Tusheti National Park 47 km
A protected area created in 2003 in the high mountains of Tusheti, in eastern Georgia. The region is reached over a single mountain pass road that is open only in the warmer months, which keeps its villages and pastures remote.
Sighnaghi 49 km
One of the smallest towns in Georgia, on a steep hill in the heart of the Kakheti wine country. Pastel houses and cobbled lanes sit inside old defensive walls, and it looks out across the Alazani Valley to the Caucasus in the distance.
Bodbe Monastery 50 km
A convent 2 km from Sighnaghi where the relics of St Nino, who brought Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century, are kept. First built in the 9th century and much remodelled in the 17th, it is one of the country's major places of pilgrimage.
Lagodekhi National Park 55 km
Two linked reserves of 24,451 hectares on the southern slopes of the Caucasus in the far northeast of Georgia. First protected in 1912, it was the earliest nature reserve in the country, and its forest trails lead to waterfalls and high lakes.
David Gareja Monastery 68 km
A monastery cut into the rock of Mount Gareja, on the half desert edge of the Iori Plateau some 60 to 70 km southeast of Tbilisi. Hundreds of cells, churches, chapels and refectories are hollowed out of the cliffs, some still painted with old frescoes.
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Questions
Where is Gremi?
Gremi is in Kvareli, Kakheti, Georgia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Nekresi Monastery (9.3 km), Alaverdi Monastery (25 km), Ikalto Monastery (25 km).
How do I get the Gremi stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Gremi and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Kakheti volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Gremi before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Kakheti volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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